Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.
Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.
Those were the songs that were getting people out dancing. We found people were happy listening to it all night long.
It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
We laugh really hard when we go out. We'll have a glass of wine, or we'll go to a club and dance. I'm not sitting around like a hermit I'm enjoying my life
This is a really fantastic piece for us to acquire. It's fun, tongue in cheek in mood. It's a very important work of hers and it's a good challenge for the dancers. Tharp's style is not easy to capture. It looks simple, but . . . it's actually very exact and done with a tremendous amount of speed.
Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.
Dancing was what we always used to do around the house,
I feel that the year ahead for me will be full of two of my favorite things: dance and acting.
What you see is what I call an elaborate Gore dance,
Prince Wen Hui's cook was cutting up an ox.... The ox fell apart with a whisper. The bright cleaver murmured like a gentle wind. Rhythm Timing Like a sacred dance.... Prince Wen Hui Good work Your method is faultless The cook Method What I follow is Tao beyond all methods When I first began to cut up oxen I would see before me the whole ox all in one mass. After three years I no longer saw this mass. I saw the distinctions. But now I see nothing with the eye. My whole being apprehends. My senses are idle. The spirit free to work without plan follows its own instinct guided by natural line, by the secret opening, the hidden space, my cleaver finds its own way... Then I withdraw the blade, I stand still and let the joy of the work sink in. I clean the blade and put it away. Prince Wan Hui This is it My cook has shown me how I ought to live my own life.
This was really nice for her. It was a great experience because she just loves to dance. I always say, she'd live at the dance studio if I let her.
The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.
This year is, by common consent, the most political Fringe for a long time. It's not just theater. It's the comedians, dance, musical theater we've got musicals about the war on terror.
I knew I loved her right then and there. Everyone else sat down real quietly and respectfully, but she stood up in the front row and started dancing and trying to get everyone else to dance.
I have the same concerns about alcohol, but come at it with a different approach. Those under 21 are not going to quit dancing, but will just go to another town.
A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas are bankrupt, and that the party basically takes their loyalty for granted, ... Then the Republicans start coming around and we're like the lonely girl standing against the wall at a dance. Even if you know it's lip service, you feel receptive, just because somebody has bothered to come over and pay attention to you.
The reporters asked him to pose for some pictures, and so he did. He didn't do a dance out of the courthouse. I was walking right beside him.
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.
There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.
I can sing, I can dance, I'm not afraid of speaking my mind and I'm not afraid to be sexy.
Effective leadership coaching can happen on the dance floor of conversation.
We get home field advantage, a first round bye...the table was set for us to do our thing and get to the big dance.
We have tap dancers, singers, choirs, children choirs ... we try to keep a variety in there.
No sane man will dance.
We had the looks we normally make, but they didn't go down today. It wasn't a good time for that to happen. We wouldn't have been here without those guys they brought us to the dance.
How do you know theres no touching unless youre one of the participants Its dark in there. You dont know whether theyre half-an-inch away or not. With the 4-foot rule, its a lot less subjective. Our vice people can enforce it without buying a dance.
We were fortunate that we had 140 (singers and dancers) audition. We called back 60 and we wound up with 35. That's a lot of people, and a lot of dancers.
She gets along with everybody. She's always dancing, she loves music. That's a side of her that people don't see.
Me and my brothers used to watch it together. That's how we learned to dance.
He asked me to come up and demonstrate a dance, and he just jumped in. It was wonderful, and afterward he complimented me. I was so thrilled.
Our goal is to produce a monthly vaudeville-style show with an eclectic mix of live music, juggling, dance and sketch comedy.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
I could not believe in a god that could not 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.
When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.
Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.
All there is to be said for work as opposed to dancing is that it is so much easier.
It makes you feel like, wow, there are people who aren't jaded, who enjoy watching rock music, having a good time, clapping and dancing. You know, what you're supposed to do at a rock show
I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn't something I ever seriously considered.
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.
The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.
I want to win an Oscar. I want to be known for more than, like, going out. For being the 'party girl'. I hate that. I bust my ass when I'm filming and when I have time off, yeah, I like to go out and dance.
You can feel the music, not just hear it. You can feel it moving through your body. It makes you want to dance.
When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.
What I've been trying to tell the guys all this week is they're here now and this is when you've got to perform. I was watching TV and saw a quote from the George Mason (basketball coach). He said it's not just about getting in the dance. It's about performing there, and you've got to win.
If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.
It was a big dance, working with him, ... It was a lot of new moves that I've never seen before, but always with the rhythm. It was a real vital experience. It's easy to go out there and tell the truth, because you're in a scene and you catch a wave, so to speak. You're not conscious of where you're going, but you're on a wave. And usually those turn out to be either the worst take or the best, but all you need is one that's the best, you know
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