Traditional 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.

When I was still a student, I came out of a performing arts high school, and the female students who were doing traditional dance and ballet were so beautiful. They were beautiful, starting from their postures.

For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve..i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age...an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences...I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage.

In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.

Anytime I had a date, it was at the Sadie Hawkins Day dance.

I think we need a big national dance.

As a kid, the only time I used to get out at night when I was in 9th and 10th standard. The only time I had permission to go out at night was during Navratri because we all used to go play dandiya and garba.

I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.

I really got into Gaelic music and the whole sound of it, and I got to go to Scotland.

The round-up is an aggressive tradition. I'm trying to objectively be a steward of the tradition and what it means in its choreography.

Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.

I started learning Bharatnatyam from the age of three. I have also learnt folk dance.

When I started out at about 19, 20, it took me two years just to tell the difference between a jig and a reel. It does all sound the same, but what you can find once you go in - it's never-ending. So that's my love.

Everyone is unique to the way that they dance in New Orleans.

Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.

I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.

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

When I think of Bollywood dance, I think of choreographies from the '70s and '80s. That was true Bollywood, what is now known as old school Bollywood.

Everybody is jumping up and down back in Russia. Probably lots of vodka, too.

I think there's a spiritual element to dancing in general. There's a reason why in every culture, dancing seems to be in our DNA.

The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.

In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.

Song, dance and cinema are so deeply within the Indian culture and with so many cultures incorporating their elements too, it has become a wonderful collage.

Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.