#dance

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. ↗

The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball. ↗

— John Thorn

#basketball #caliber #called #college #college football

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps. ↗

— Mia Kirshner

#comes #dance #dumb #i #i am

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today. ↗

— Lincoln Kirstein

#absolute freedom #anarchy #anxious #aristocratic #authority

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.' ↗

— Alison Krauss

#carolina #dance #fiddle #fiddler #got

I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#dance #dancing #i #i think #modern

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#beginning #between #dance #i #insisted

I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#democratically #done #honestly #i #i can

Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#dance #easy #everybody #knows #life

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do. ↗