Quotes About Ballroom

I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by Louis the Fifteenth.

I went to four different proms in high school. I was addicted to the whole ballroom thing.

When you're out dancing with your friends, you think you're cool. But then you get in the ballroom, and it's totally different.

I did ballroom dancing at school, but I was atrocious.

Ballroom is a man's world. It's tough for women, particularly single women. But I've never expected life to be anything but tough.

People talk about ballroom, but they don't really understand the history. Crystal Labeija, Avis Pendavis, Paris Dupree, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey. These were the women that really brought ballroom to life.

I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous.

There are only about 400 people in fashionable New York Society. If you go outside that number you strike people who are either not at ease in a ballroom or else make other people not at ease.

Strictly Come Dancing

Judas paused at the edge of the Venetian ballroom, letting the colors swirl in front of him. Crimson reds, deepest golds, indigos that matched the evening sea, blacks that ate the light, and the pearly radiance of bare shoulders. Nowhere did the women dress as brightly, and display

The physical DNA has always been part of our family. My dad was a good boxer and gymnast; my mum is a ballroom dancer, and my brother does martial arts.

I know how to waltz because I used to teach ballroom dancing when I was in high school.

It's a blessing that I have my family in my life and they were supportive, but there were times when I needed to find an outlet for me to understand my people and my own journey, and I found that through my chosen family, which was the ballroom community.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

Then the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses') one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing-rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d'or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry, and beyond that the depths of a conservatory where camellias and tree-ferns arched their costly foliage over seats of black and gold bamboo.

The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated.

I did ballet at the Menlo Park Academy of Dance from age 4 to 11, but then I switched to ballroom, and I've been doing that ever since.

I was thinking of retiring after tonight," he replied. "Retiring? This is just the beginning. Tonight, a ballroom legend will be born!" It's official! thought Ben. My mum is bonkers!

Clearly no one knew the socially correct way to deal with a brawl in a ballroom that had been started by a lady.

Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

Both my brother and I have only had dance experience with ballroom dancing.

I would love to do a little ballroom dancing with my husband... He and I can take a couple classes together. It would be a lot of fun!

I'm a phys ed major: that's ballroom dancing and handball.

Being on 'Dancing with the Stars' is an amazing opportunity. I consider myself lucky to be a part of the show and to be able to share my passion and love of dance with such a huge audience while managing to train a few celebrities in ballroom dance along the way.