Quotes About Dance

Ballroom dancing is so specific... it's so unique in its own way, that there's not really a lot of outlets where you can utilize that.

I tend to learn things physically - I guess it's my dance training. I never want to make too many choices too soon - so, while I am thinking about the character and thinking about her history, which is very vague in terms of what is given in the text, I am starting to have ideas about what her home is.

In 2007, when my husband Damian Woetzel took on the artistic direction at the Vail Valley International Dance Festival, we both felt it was important to offer the entire Vail community access to dance.

What I wanted to hear was "The Rose," a song of fear and the redemption of love: "It's the heart, afraid of breaking / That never learns to dance / … It's the one who won't be taken / Who cannot seem to give." She could make me laugh; she could sing and make me cry. One of the people in the world I felt closest to.

Except, perhaps, in Iran itself. A new round of musicians had taken up their instruments, and the beat was quickening, growing louder and wilder by the minute. Men and women had gathered to dance again and were stamping like matadors, or circling one another with gazes interlocked. I moved closer, to a marble-topped bar, where the exhausted musicians had swapped their instruments for tumblers of vodka.

You are dancing with Elaine. Tad is dancing with Theresa. Elaine moves with an angular syncopation that puts you in mind of the figures on Egyptian tombs. It may be a major new dance step.

Writers cleave together like a demonic AA group - we are singularly able to dance with each other's devils...

The seals are scarce and the whales are almost gone. The spirits of the animals are passing away. Amaroq, Amaroq, you are my adopted father. My feet dance because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you. And it thinks, on this thundering night, That the hour of the wolf and the Eskimo is over.

I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

I like to live. I like to dance. I like to eat. I like to work and I like my family. I like to enjoy. And.. knock on wood.. it's nice that I can live this way.

Work such as you will not have to have the money. Adore like you've got by no means been damage. Dance like nobody's seeing.

Some people work for a living and some people twerk for a living.

I ride my bike, I work out, I do a bit of, er, dancey things.

If you want to take dance to an extra level, you have to be physically fit. You also have to put the years of work in. If there's no pain, there's no gain. You've got to sweat to improve.

You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

I think variety is the spice of sticking with an exercise routine, whether it's getting a dance tape one day, or getting a tape with those stretchy things to work with resistance on a different day.

I feel really connected to these young ladies I get to work with; I'm dancing around with them and playing music for them. We sit down and get to know each other so we have a shorthand.

The freedom I experienced as a dance major in college gave me so much, but the reality of being in school is that you are still forced to work under restrictions.

I danced in a Lifetime film. We shot in Canada and I got to work with a lot of the dancers who do So You Think You Can Dance, Canada.

My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that moment. I was trying to replicate that dance-off between Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears.

My dad and his sister, who is no longer with us, used to dance on the streets for money. They had nothing.

After all, my mother is a Maharashtrian, and I have grown up in Girgaum, amidst a lot of Maharashtrians and I have even danced on the streets during the Ganpati processions.

I love dancing as it is a great stress buster.