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Let dance do the talking 🤫
Oh, don't you dare look backJust keep your eyes on meI said, You're holding backShe said, Shut up and dance with me — From the song Shut Up and Dance by Walk the Moon "I can either talk or dance; I can't do both." I've related this as a limitation of mine, for years,...
Courage to dance 💪
Screen capture near the end of the film Dancing Lives by BJ Bullert. If we could get world leaders to learn to dance — and corporate leaders — to be open, and dance with everyone...the world would be a radically different place. —Walter Dill A whirlwind of...
Dance your way out of shy town 😳
Darling, don’t ever be too shy to dance your heart out.—Audrey Hepburn I can't tell you how many dancers I've talked to who claim to be introverted, like me. Luckily, partner dancing is a great social pursuit for introverts! As Jenny Levina says in her...
Sublimely dancing with strangers ☺️
Bellingham Honky Tonk Social Club event, photo and associated article by Eli Voorhies Our arms start from the back because they were once wings. —Martha Graham It's thrilling — and intimidating, for me — to venture into an unfamiliar dance scene. Thanks to...
Be beloved, be a dance ambassador
We are never more truly and profoundly human than when we dance. —José Limón I love talking to fellow dancers about their first "dance ambassador." We all generally have favorite first instructors, but often there's an experienced dancer in the community who went out...
The dance is strong magic
The dance is strong magic. The dance is a spirit. The dance is life.—Pearl Primus Witnessing the lovely "Dance for Justice" crew (pictured above performing choreography by Guy Caridi) at the Shoreline "No Kings" rally last Saturday, I was reminded of an article I'd...
Spring brings sea change to Reverie Ballroom 🫡
Reverie Ballroom CEOs Eliza Wilder (outgoing) and Hallie Kuperman (incoming) You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.—Friedrich Nietzsche Big news last week at Reverie Ballroom, a flagship among Seattle's dance venues, with Eliza Wilder stepping...
Dance is for everyone ☘️
Know that you can start late, look different, be uncertain and still succeed. ―Misty Copeland My heavens, the Sinners blues music and dance performance at the Oscars, amirite?! Wow! And in perhaps the most exciting, jaw-dropping moment of all…the exquisitely graceful...
Music & the dance of the cosmic dust
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. ―Albert Einstein I've been working my way through the book Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American...
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