When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding.
As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.
The Fred Astaire movies made a huge impression on me.
Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.
All of the vintage photos of Ballets Russes are so inspiring.
When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.
Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
Show dancing stood very well on its own a long time ago with dancers like Bill Robinson and Marilyn Miller.
when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.
Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.
Modern dancing is old fashioned.
