Good Music creates an intersection between heaven and the soul

I don’t want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.

I sprained my knee. I was Elbowing at the time. Elbowing is a new dance I invented for those random moments of romance that break out at funerals.

When the silent flamingo dances pink with desire, I’ll be there, sipping on owl stares and kitten curls.

Sing before the spirits and dance with the earth deitiesAnd you will be able to compose your own tune.Then you and I, united, will clap hands joyously,Singing ‘tum-tiddly-um tum-tiddly-um-tum.

Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: ‘Jacquet,’ he’d say, ‘knock off that tempo.’ A lot of jazz musicians didn’t prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz...

When you dance, you measure distance as if it’s a solid thing; you make precise judgments every time two bodies exist in relation to each other. So I knew right away the definition of the...

Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their...

I’ve been doing African dance all my life.

No matter how unfamiliar my world becomes, I can always find my way home when I dance.

Dance music is an emotional journey. It’s how well you can make people feel something that they haven’t felt.

I learned how to dance every move of ‘Billie Jean.’

My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.

World seems like a void of silence every time footsteps are deprived of dancing shoes.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.