Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute song can devastate you, or make you get up and dance, stop what you're doing and go, 'What is that?' It just hits you. And it's a very potent thing you're playing around with.
When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.
Dance music makes us dance. Let us get off our couch and spin around!
I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, Giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy: I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.
I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.
Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.
I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.
Just because two of the people in this barn have decided to spend their lives together doesn't mean the rest of us are obligated to instantly find our soul mates. It's okay if we just dance.
Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.
Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.
Every match in the Euro is a dance on a razor's edge.
If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.
It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.
Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.
I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.