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Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?
Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.
Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.
As I grew up, I learned what worked for me. That's where the short dresses came from. And you can't dance in a long dress.
Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.
It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.
I don't think what people realize is I've been through years and years and years of training - piano, dance, vocal lessons.
I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.
Life has to be a roller coaster ride. Otherwise, what's the point of living? Why should I make a song and dance about mine?
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
It takes a lifetime of devotion to build your craft, your confidence, and the ability to sing and dance and act believably.
I did, like, two drop-in hip-hop dance classes when I was, like, 20, so I am no dance expert but I always love a challenge.
Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.
The music scene in Michigan is really folky and bluegrass, but my parents played a lot of disco. They really liked to dance.
Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.
My favourite festival experience is a show at midnight with the moon blazing and a crowd full of open hearts ready to dance.
The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop.
Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.
When we watch dance, the artists and the audience are part of a momentary collective experience that will never happen again.
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.
...I loved to dance in studios, but not necessarily on stage. What I loved was to sweat and to feel every single pore open up
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.
Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Some dancers dream about successful careers...and some dancers wake up and do the hard work that's necessary to achieve them.
I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.
I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.
I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.
I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.
I never taught people where to step on '2', because when I learned how to dance there was no '2'. We just danced to the music.
I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance.
Dance really built my confidence on stage. I'm still a shy person. But I have a lot more confidence than I did when I started.
I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.
When I was growing up, I wanted to be Michael Jackson. I used to sing and dance and perform with my sister at parties for 50p.
Sometimes it is hard to sing and dance at the same time but I would rather be off and be real and genuine about it to my fans.
You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.
Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.
My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
Sometimes it is hard to sing and dance at the same time, but I would rather be off and be real and genuine about it to my fans.
Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.
I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.
Flow into your dancing, circulate the steps into your body, as you would run your fingers through the hair of the one you Love.