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I sort of fused Flashdance with MC Hammer shit. The Office UK s2e5: Charity, Brent, BBC 2002
I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
Dancing could be the best exercise of all to get maximum brain benefits. Michael Mosley, The Truth About Getting Fit, BBC 2018
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? Friedrich Nietzsche
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal. Friedrich Nietzsche
So I did a few Fred Astaire moves on him. Pusher I 2012 starring Kim Bodnia & Zlatko Buric & Laura Drasbaek & Peter Andersson & Jesper Salomonsen & Lief Sylvestor et al, director Nicolas Winding Refn, Frankie
They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat
The world famous Jack Rabbit Slim’s twist contest. Pulp Fiction 1994 ***** starring Uma Thurman & John Travolta & Samuel L Jackson & Harvey Keitel & Tim Roth & Amanda Plummer & Maria de Medeiros & Ving Rhames & Eric Stoltz & Rosanna Arquette & Bruce Willis & Christopher Walken et al, announcement
Yeah. Thirty-one. What do I need? A note from my mother. They Shoot Horses Don't They? 1969 starring Jane Fonda & Michael Sarrazin & Susannah York & Gig Young & Red Buttons & Bonnie Bedelia & Bruce Dern & Allyn Ann McLerie & Robert Fields & Michael Conrad et al, director Sydney Pollack, opening scene
Ya you, come here. What’s your name, cowboy? You got a partner, ain’t ya? ibid. organiser
Welcome to the dance of destiny, ladies and gentlemen. ibid. announcer
You in movies too? ibid. her to him
Hot dogs. Hot dogs. Get your hot dogs. ibid. seller
There are thirty-two separate pieces of shrapnel still embedded in Harry’s body. Thirty-two ... I really mean that sincerely, folks, from the bottom of my heart. ibid. dude in tux
Nature’s little miracle – Christ! What’s the use of having a kid unless you got enough dough to take care of it. You intend to keep it? Yeah, why not drop another sucker in this mess? ibid. her to pregnant contestant
You know the rules – no fights on the floor. ibid. bouncer
You about ready to do some dancing? Wild at Heart 1990 starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern & Willem Dafoe & J E Freeman & Crispin Glover & Diane Ladd & Isabella Rossellini & Harry Dean Stanton et al, director David Lynch, him to her
Let’s go dancing, peanut. I’m ready. ibid.
We are not that desperate: Morris dancing is the most fatuous tenth-weight entertainment ever devised by man. The Black Adder s1e2: Born to Be King, Blackadder to Baldrick, BBC 1983
The Times called the Waltz an indecent foreign dance. Lucy Worsley, Elegance and Decadence 2/3: The Age of the Regency, BBC 2011
Come on, Tone. Have a little dance. Come on. Play For Today: Abigail’s Party, written and directed Mike Leigh, starring Alison Steadman ***** Beverly to Tony, BBC 1977
I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thoughts I’d rather dance with the cows until you come home. Duck Soup 1933 starring Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx & Chico Marx & Zeppo Marx & Margaret Dumont & Louis Calhern & Raquel Torres & Edgar Kennedy & Edmund Breese & Edwin Maxwell & William Worthington et al, director Leo McCarey, Groucho as Rufus T Firefly
What filthy groping and unclean handling is not practised everywhere in these dancings? It provoketh lust. Philip Stubbs, Puritan
On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet. Lord Byron
There may be trouble ahead,
But while there’s moonlight and love and romance,
Let’s face the music and dance. Irving Berlin, 1888-1989, Let’s Face the Music and Dance from Follow the Fleet, 1936
You should see me dance the Polka,
You should see me cover the ground,
You should see my coat-tails flying,
As I jump my partner round. George Grossmith, See Me Dance the Polka, song 1887
Dance Dance Dance. Chic
Everybody Dance. Chic
Let’s Dance. David Bowie
There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. Edwin Denby
Dance, dance, dance little lady!
Leave tomorrow behind. Noel Coward, Dance Little Lady, 1928
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. Agnes de Mille
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. Agnes de Mille
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. Faith Whittlesey
Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance? Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order. Samuel Beckett
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. Martha Graham
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. Author unknown
Takes Two to Tango. Al Hoffman and Dick Manning, song 1952
I danced in the morning
When the world was begun
And I danced in the moon
And the stars and the sun
And I came down from heaven
And I danced on the Earth –
At Bethlehem I had my birth.
Dance then wherever you may be,
I am the Lord of the Dance, said he,
And I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be
And I’ll lead you all in the dance, said he. Sydney Carter
Dance music — as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper … a windshield wiper that’s fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an out-of-tune playing ‘Melancholy Baby’ and you’ve got dance music. Artie Shaw, jazz musician
Learn then to dance, you that are princes born,
And lawful lords of earthly creatures all;
Imitate them, and thereof take no scorn,
(For this new art to them is natural
And imitate the stars celestial.
For when pale death your vital twist shall sever,
Your better parts must dance with them forever. John Davies, 1569-1626, Orchestra or A Poem of Dancing, 1596
Haste thee nymph, and bring with thee
Jest and youthful jollity,
Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles,
Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles. John Milton, L’Allegro 1645
Sport that wrinkled Care derides,
And Laughter holding both his sides.
Come, and trip it as ye go
On the light fantastic toe. ibid.
And the jocund rebecks sound
To many a youth, and many a maid,
Dancing in the chequered shade;
And young and old come forth to play
On a sunshine holiday. ibid.
Then to the spicy nut-brown ale. ibid.
Such sights as youthful poets dream
On summer eves by haunted stream.
The to the well-trod stage anon,
If Jonson’s learned sock be on,
Or sweetest Shakespeare fancy’s child,
Warble his native wood-notes wild. ibid.