Social Dance Quotes

Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more.

In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

The '60s was leather soles and a wooden floor. That's why the twist, the simplest dance, was such a sensation. Everyone could do it. They just swivel their feet and the upper body fell naturally in the opposite direction.

Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, but the dance speaks to everyone... Otherwise, it wouldn't work.

I love Viennese waltzes and polkas, and especially ceilidhs and old-fashioned formation dancing.

Dancing cheek to cheek.

Swing your partner, dosey-do, now clap your hands... uh-oh, that's all the square dance moves I know... I'll bluff the rest. Slap your partner in the face, Write bad checks all over the place, Flirt with strangers, annoy your spouse, Get a divorce and lose your house, ...uh... dosey-do.

A while ago, I got a chance to learn tango for a performance in my college.

Dabbing was a way of fashion that turned into a dance.

I grew up dancing salsa - you know, a traditional Puerto Rican dance.

What I really like to do is just do the twist!

I grew up in a house where we danced all the time because we're Puerto Rican.

Hip is the knowledge and Hop is the movement.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

Partner dancing is a cultured act.

Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.

I've always wanted to learn the Argentine tango.

I love how much dance is sneaking its way back into society.

I thought the Charleston would be a bit like the jive, but it isn't really.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated.

The world is full of ways for people to dance. Concert dance doesn't get its due.

I was very happy with the success of 'Noise/Funk,' but of course, there is a lot more that I have to say about the dance, about the history, about the people involved with the dance and their history.