Category Archive: fascinating facts

You are walking, you are an expert

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Image of Yorke Dance Company and quote from Twyla Tharp.

Let your life lightly dance..

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“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time..” a dance quote from Gurudev and image from Milo Miles’ cabaret Biju

Prose walks, poetry dances

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Picture of Richard Alston’s anniversary production of Britten’s Sinfonia and dance quote by James Broughton.

Let us keep the dance of rain…

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The quote I’ve chosen this week; ‘Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky’ is from Arnaud (Arna) Wendell Bontemps (1902-1973). He and… Continue reading →

My goal now is to dance all the dances

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Picture of tango dancers’ foot at Regents Park and a quote from Robert Fulghum

The dance is a poem..

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‘The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word’ is attributed to Mata Hari (1876-1917). Margaretha Geertruida “Margreet” MacLeod was a Dutch Frisian exotic dancer who was convicted of being… Continue reading →

Dance should always be delivered back to the people..

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A quote and little about Alvin Ailey and a dance image of ZooNation.

How Bob Hope learned to dance..

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Image of Yorke Dance’s Wordsworth and comedic dance quote by Bob Hope.

Hand In Hand on the edge of the sand..

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“Hand in hand on the edge of the sand..” Dance quote from Edward Lear and image of Richard Alston Company dancing the Britten Sinfonia

No dance has turned out the way I thought..

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Image of Yorke Dance’s Wordsworth and a quote from the choreographer Mark Morris.