Dance Quotes
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If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.
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If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.
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What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
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We dance to fall in love with the spirit in all things, to wipe out memory or transform it into moves that nobody else can make because they didn’t live it.
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(talking about The Lord Of The Dance) Have you seen that show? If you have, GET OUT! Get the hell out of my show right now!
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I had seen the photographs of Harlem in its glory days, stylish men in bespoke suits, women so well dressed that they'd put the models in 'Vogue' to shame. I knew that Harlemites loved to dance, to pray, and to eat.
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When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it right, oh, the fun. It is fun.
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I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
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Girls are supposed to dance. That's why god gave them parts that jiggle.
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Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.
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I don't really dance. I don't drink or smoke. Being at parties is very awkward.
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When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.
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My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.
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A. L. Vijay asked if I could dance, and I just said yes. I didn't tell him the only dancing I had done was on nights out in Liverpool. He said he would arrange workshops and help me with the scripts and the language. He liked the fact that I was English but had an Indian look.
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I should not believe in a God who does not dance.
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I've been in dance schools since I was four. I went to the Brit school. I did adverts and plays.
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Beauty is a simple passion,but, oh my friends, in the endyou will dance the fire dance in iron shoes.
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Be yourself! And then tell us about it! And then let's dance!
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When I was first going out to funky events, it was a lovely kind of music to dance to - it had such a nice vibe.
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I think the reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
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I'm an actor. I'm a singer. And I dance. To be able to do all these things is amazing. And to have similar-minded people all around you, doing what you love, is even more amazing.
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Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.
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When your young and hungry and nobody's ever really accepted you because of your color and class, the hurt of your own family having cast you out in the first place still inside you somewhere, you dance hard because there is no other way to live, and when opportunity knocks its more of an abduction than a housecall.
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I did a postgrad at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
