PJC Swing Article
We
made the press!
Jenny Foote was nice enough to write an article about Swing Night
in the recent PJC Corsair newspaper.
It's great that the word keeps getting out about our little Friday
night dance. Thanks Jenny, from all of us!
Click here to read the article...
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
MATTHEW ARNOLD 1822-1888; English educationist and philosopher
"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
Mihkail Baryshnikov
"While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole.
That is why I dance."
Hans Bos
"To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak."
Derrick "Suwaima" Davis, Hopi/Chocktaw Indian
"A man who knows how to dance can make any woman feel good."
Barbara Haller, ballroom champion
"Three hops get you just as far as one leap."
Cynthia Copeland Lewis
"Dance isn't something that can be explained in words; it has
to be danced."
Paige Arden
"Dancing is an art that imprints the soul. It is with you every
moment, it expresses itself in everything you do."
Shirley Maclaine
"Dancing is poetry of the foot."
John Drydan
"When you fall, try it again....everyone falls the first time!
Dave Dodson
"Lesser dancers stumble, better dancers syncopate
"If their feet aren't in the right place, at least their hearts
are."
Christian M. Chensvold, on novice swingers
"A good dancer has the posture that can say I have presence,
and you are dirt. Especially when they forget to smile."
"When you are dancing with your partner, for that two and
a half minutes, you are in love with each other. You're
corresponding with each other by the moves that you make. It's a
love affair, between you and your partner and
the music. You feel the music, you feel your partner, she feels
you and she feels the music. So there the three of
you are together. You've got a triangle, you know. Which one do
you love best?"
Frankie Manning
"You ought to take the bull between the teeth."
"We have all passed a lot of water since then."
SAMUEL GOLDWYN 1879-1974; US film producer
(ok, these weren't really swing related but I had
to add them.)
"We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in
an affirmation of
life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor,
the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This
is the function of the American dance."
Martha Graham (1894-1991), U.S. dancer, choreographer.
"The American Dance" published
in Modern Dance, ed. by Virginia Stewart, 1935). |
