The square dance fiddler's first concern is to carry a tune, but he must carry it loud enough to be heard over the noise of stampi...ng feet, the cries of the "caller," and the shouts of the dancers. When he fiddles, he "fiddles all over"; feet, hands, knees, head, and eyes are all busy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only ...be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now folks, I hereby declare the first church of Tombstone, which ain't got no name yet or no preacher either, officially dedicated.... Now I don't pretend to be no preacher, but I've read the Good Book from cover to cover and back again, and I nary found one word agin dancin'. So we'll commence by havin' a dad blasted good dance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their n...ext look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And the Harvard students in the brick hallowed houses studied Sappho in cement rooms.... And this Sappho danced on the grass and danced and danced and danced. It was a death dance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »