I had a client who was a professional baseball player once, and he would go to clubs and dance for seven, eight, nine hours at a time. He wouldn’t drink, he wouldn’t take drugs – he just danced because he had so much physical energy; he was this amazing athlete.
We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
The only time I’ve ever danced every day was during ‘Dancing with the Stars’ and in the two-week rehearsal for ‘Dirty Dancing,’ and that was only to do a particular dance.
I met Madonna when I was 22, and I danced with her until I was 28. When I met her, I was a tomboy! Every time I see her, she really inspired me about one thing or another, so she’s quite important and significant person in my life.
It’s hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It’s different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it’s interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.
I haven’t danced since 1973; I’m too old.
I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in ‘Chirutha.’
She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.
When I was heavier, I danced and I jumped out of planes. I’ve always rejected the idea that there’s a certain look or size that makes it acceptable to live life.
I did grow up in France, and even though I didn’t go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet, I absorbed similar ideas in my training. I understand the scale of a big company. I danced for one for almost 20 years.
I’ve danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7.
It’s very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.
I’ve learnt there’s nothing you can’t do. I danced, for instance. I am not as reserved as I used to be. I’ve been on the reserved side since I was growing up perhaps because I was an only child, but that changed. I am way more confident. I’m more expressive and vocal.
Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.
I danced with the Ballet Russe in Paris when I was 16 and did not need a companion.
I’ve never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
I’ve always danced. I’ve always been around it.
I danced in a company of ‘West Side Story’ when I was very young. It was most of the original cast – Larry Kert, Chita Rivera – and Jerry Robbins directed. It was tough, a wonderful initiation for me.
I’ve danced before, so I know how it feels to stand in front of judges and be critiqued.
When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I’m probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle – a lot of muscle in high school.
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