Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.
All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.
First, I think of myself as a brand, a businesswoman. Musician is something I just do because it's my passion - I love it and it's something I do for fun. I love music and I love to make people dance.
The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.
I love to dance in the disco, but that's about it.
The body is a reservoir of all sorts of tensions and dark forces. And it's also the potential source of amazing energy. This thing wants to live. It is a powerful engine. The brain (is) a reservoir of images, dreams, fears, associations, language. And its potential we can't even begin to understand. Movement begins to negotiate the distance between the brain and the body and it can be surprising what we learn about each other.
I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
Music doesn't solve your problems. . but allows you to dance all over them
Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
The tango is the man and woman in search of each other. It is the search for an embrace, a way to be together, when the man feels that he is a male and the woman feels that she is female, without machismo. She likes to be led; he likes to lead. Disagreements may occur later or they may not. When that moment comes, it is important to have positive and productive dialogue, fifty-fifty. The music arouses and torments, the dance is the coupling of two people defenseless against the world and powerless to change things.
I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny
You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that. " If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?
One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.
Standing on the fringes of life. . . offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.
Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance.
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
