Freedom Danced Before My Eyes
I do really silly dancing. I love dancing, but I'm not cool when I dance. It's not about my moves, it's not about how cool I am, it's not about how slick I look on the dance floor, it's about having a great time.
It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool.
I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.
You street-dance in a club, you're performing. Whether anybody sees me is a whole other thing. But it doesn't matter, because it fills my void.
If I'm home alone, I just dance... it's my own little secret.
I am more expressive when I dance.
When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want to shake my ass, not 'cause "I'm dancing like a black girl!"
While I love dancing and I am trained in certain forms, I can tell you that I dance better with my daughter because we dance like there is no one watching us.
I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.
As I grew up, I learned what worked for me. That's where the short dresses came from. And you can't dance in a long dress.
Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
When you're out dancing, you could be anywhere in the world, but it's only the dance that matters.
No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'
Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.
When I look half naked on stage, it's not because I'm trying to be sexy but because I am dancing and want to be mobile enough to move.
Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about the carefree flinging of your body to great music. It can be so joyous.
I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.
I just want to be able to get onstage and move and move around.
I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.
I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.
You can dance anywhere and you can dance in your mind, in your heart.
Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.
