Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.
I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.
You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls.
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
A body in movement is its philosophy.
I do everything I know how in a dance.
I'll never play a drum solo you can't dance to.
The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.
If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.
On the brilliance of James Brown's dancing − and the frustrations of bad camera-work on dancers:cers: I think James Brown is a genius you know when he's with the Famous Flames, unbelievable. I used to watch him on television and I used to get angry at the camera-man because whenever he would really start to dance they would be on a close-up so I couldn't see his feet. I'd shout "Show him! Show him!", so I could watch and learn.
But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.
We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should. . . bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"
Dance from here to the other world-and don't stop.
No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance is sacred as something emotionally strong happens.
I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.
I tell stories through dance, and I think that's why I'm so attracted to the theatre because even the choreography in theatre moves the plot forward at all times.
Dance music was really leading the way in the U. K. , Europe and Australia. America was always about hip-hop and R&B.
When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.
My dream is to continue dancing forever. I would kill myself if I didn’t dance.
If I'm on skates, I feel at home no matter what I'm doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I think I could do it just becauseI was on skates. When I'm not on skates, though, I feel very strange.