In many parts of the world-including Polynesia, north Africa & the Middle East-public dancing that focused on a physically linked couple would have been unthinkable, a violation of communal propriety.
The one unbreakable rule of couples dancing is that the partners must move inter dependently, as a unit.
By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.
A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.
If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.
All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
Better Dancing makes Better Lovers
Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.
You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.
Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels.
No sober person dances.
Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder.
It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.
Come up and see me sometime.
Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.
The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely ridge, the dancing beck, the silent forest; always there will be the exhilaration of the summits. These are for the seeking, and those who seek and find while there is still time will be blessed both in mind and body.
To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.
If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything.
I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.
Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.
True friends are never forgotten, they live within our hearts and souls.... forever , and always , dancing on our stage of memories.
I saw you dancing out the ocean Running fast along the sand A spirit born of earth and water Fire flying from your hands
Oh my love, it's you that I dream of Oh my love, since that day Somewhere in my heart I'm always Dancing with you in the summer rain
I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm.
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