The one unbreakable rule of couples dancing is that the partners must move inter dependently, as a unit.

The circle, or ring, dance was seen as an earthly counterpart of the heavenly dance of the angels, which was itself a celebration of the resurrection.

The new kind of dancing meant liberation not only from the rules of leading and following but from rules of any kind.

By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.

To know something about trees-about even one tree-is to know something profound about the nature of the world and our place in it.

As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.

A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.

Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next.

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.

I could still box your ears.”“Nonsense, ” he scoffed. “You couldn’t reach that high.

I wanted to join Footlights, ” he says. “I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact I wanted to be John Cleese and it took me some time to realise that the job was in fact taken.

Well, I did tell you I couldn’t give you a thing. Maybe you’ve just realised that Alistair can give the god damn world, and the pleasure of kissing his shiny slap-head every day!

Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily.

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

It was deliciously pagan.

There's nothing more creative I'll ever do in my career than trying to make an hour of TV everyday.

My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs.

I was always pretty funny with my friends.

The life of a dancer is not for everyone. You really have to have some thick skin. You really have to know what you're going into and how competitive the field is.