Pat, it's not sexual – it's modern dance.
Fighting and dancing are kind of related. Especially if you dance with another man’s woman.
I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers.
One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing.
You know how to dance in sunlight when everything is going fine, but you have to learn to dance in darkness when the sun is gone and nothing is going well.
In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.
I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.
Dance never really goes away; it just reforms and reinvents, and it's become more athletic with new connection to fitness and sport. Dance used to have this exclusivity, but not any more.
I've always tried to come up with funny dancing since I was young, to attract girls' attention for one thing. It's got to be funny. I can't pull it off with serious dances. That's not me.
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
Life clearly does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance.
As long as there are dancers around who love to dance, there will be an Alvin Ailey American Dance Company. We miss him so much, but he's alive as soon as you see a dancer hit the stage.
I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.
My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.
People who dance well, dress well, are well groomed and know how to behave seem to know others who dance, dress and behave well.
People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn't. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as dangerous as being on the ice.
When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism.
Wind In His Hair: [watching Dunbar dance around like a buffalo] His mind is gone!
