Quotes About Dance

It's just life, so keep dancing through.

You have been set in the place of a child who is loved and accepted by the Father just as surely as Jesus Himself knows that love and acceptance. Your palce is the triune circle dance is as safe and secure as the place of Jesus for the staggering reason that you are in Him.

Our talent for unconscious entrainment lies at the core of dance, a confluence of movement, rhythm and gestural representation. By far the most synchronized group practice, dance demands a type of interpersonal coordination in space and time that is almost nonexistent in other social contexts.

Unlike music ... dance has a strong capacity for representation and imitation, which suggests that dance may have further served as an early form of language. Indeed, dance is the quintessential gesture language.

We view dance as a marriage of the representational capacity of language and the rhythmicity of music. This interaction allows people not only to tell stories using their bodies but to do so while synchronizing their movements with others' in a way that fosters social cohesion.

When you skip to a beat, it is a much more pleasurable way to stay active. It becomes a mixture of dance and skip.

I'm not sure what came first, the hemline or the Charleston, but skirts needed to go up so the gals could kick their legs out.

All of the punk-rock bands of the era would come in and play, and my job on Punk Rock Night was that I would go into the slam pit, and... I was 24 or 25, and I'd slam dance in the pit.

I danced in choruses from about 1959 to 1967, in 'Take Me Along,' 'Wildcat,' and 'Subways Are for Sleeping.'

I was trying to do my own version of 'Cha-Cha Slide.' I was hoping someone, just someone, please dance to this song. It started to happen at my shows; the front row fans started doing the dance.

People don't do the Macarena together. Or if they do, they do it to get closer, to get together. It's the same thing with the Electric Slide.

The first years of my life were spent in a roller disco in the early '80s called Flipper's. It was a real riotous, incredible time. I am slightly obsessed with the place.

I was quite chubby, so when I started dancing professionally I had to work hard to stay slim.

Music is great; it all depends on what mood you're in, what you want to listen to. If it's party time, you listen to, you know, party music, if you want to dance with somebody. But then again, if it's a slow dance, you need something slow.

My progression into acting was pretty slow. I was constantly performing in different kinds of small shows. One year I would be in a magic show, the next year in a circus show, then a small play, and then a dance show.

I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know what a closet Hindi film buff I was. I used to dance to old Hindi films songs on the sly, so my decision to be a part of Hindi cinema was shocking even for my parents.

Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.

I never could be a diva. I don't know if it's because of my size or how I was raised. Because more of the diva receivers in the past have been a little smaller. I don't dance when I score touchdowns as much. I do something that's a little more gangster.

My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.

Everyone knows 'Smash' is about musical numbers, and everyone knows we have fantastic dance sequences and great performances.

I danced six hours a day. My cross to bear is that my children have no interest in ballet. I think they could smell how much I wanted to put their hair in a bun.

I love creating music that makes people dance, smile and have a good time.

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

I want to make people dance, I want to make people smile, and I want my music to get played in clubs.