Bessie Love (1898–1986) American actress (1898–1986)
On dancing in film, from [Leslie, Wilkinson, What Are They Doing Now? Part 14, Photoplay Film Monthly]
On the release of her first singing album “Soundarya Lahairi” Hema Malini goes spiritual with first music album, 2 November 2013, 6 December 2013, The Hindu http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-miscellaneous/tp-others/hema-malini-goes-spiritual-with-first-music-album/article5307409.ece, <br class="br">MOTHER MAIDEN MISTRESS
Bessie Love (1898–1986) American actress (1898–1986)
On dancing in film, from [Leslie, Wilkinson, What Are They Doing Now? Part 14, Photoplay Film Monthly]
“Show me slowly what I only
know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
Source: Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs
Merce Cunningham (1919–2009) American dancer
1952 <br class="br">from the front-page of the website of the Merce Cunningham Trust http://www.mercecunningham.org/merce-cunningham/
Harry Reid (1939) American politician
Source: "Reid Says He's A Fighter Who'd Rather Dance", All Things Considered, NPR (18 May 2010) https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126905578
“I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.”
Martha Graham (1894–1991) American dancer and choreographer
New York Times interview (1985)
Context: I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. I can correct it and tell them what they have done after they have done it, and what it means to me. But I don't say, "Be fearful here," "Be angry here," because I think that is intrusion.
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) British musician and poet
Green Print for Song (1974)
Context: I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality. By Christ I mean not only Jesus; in other times and places, other planets, there may be other Lords of the Dance. But Jesus is the one I know of first and best. I sing of the dancing pattern in the life and words of Jesus.
Whether Jesus ever leaped in Galilee to the rhythm of a pipe or drum I do not know. We are told that David danced (and as an act of worship too), so it is not impossible. The fact that many Christians have regarded dancing as a bit ungodly (in a church, at any rate) does not mean that Jesus did. The Shakers didn't...
Gene Kelly (1912–1996) American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer and choreographer
Speaking on March 8, 1985 at the American Film Institute; as quoted in "Hollywood Honors Man Who `Danced Joy'" by Paul Rosenfield, in Los Angeles Times (March 9, 1985)
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
"The Dance" - from inlay sleeve of Dangerous (1991)