With the obvious exception of Dirty Dancing what is your favourite dance movie? And the beat goes on...
Dancing is the Devil's calisthenics or the apex of human expression?
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With the obvious exception of Dirty Dancing what is your favourite dance movie? And the beat goes on...
Fame (the original), or maybe White Nights (Baryshnikov 
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Anything with Leslie Caron--she's adorable, I tell ya. I guess we'll go with Daddy Long Legs.
Neesy
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Anything with Fred Astaire is great to watch - in this clip he is with Cyd Charisse
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I love to watch these old time dancers.
Baryshnikov studied Astaire. From an Academy Award presentation:
"I have been invited to say something about how dancers feel about Fred Astaire. It's no secret. We hate him.He gives us complexes, because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity that's hard to face... you give your own performance and receive applause and you think maybe, just maybe, it was successful, and you go home ... and turn on the television to relax and there he is. Making you feel nervous all over again. You remember the remark by Ilie Nastase about Bjorn Borg: 'We are playing tennis. He is playing something else.' It's the same with Fred Astaire -- we are dancing, but he is doing something else."
I think we all have those moments, do we not? There was a chess grandmaster a while back who, after a tournament with Bobby Fischer, said something like, he thanked the other players for their games. He thanked Mr. Fischer on behalf of them all for the lesson. Me, I write a little something. Then I open up Steinbeck, and there's a literary explosion, and I think, "Who am I trying to kid?"
Yeah, I'm an Astaire admirer. And yes, I like good dancing. I feel fortunate to have seen the gamut from Astaire to Michael Jackson, who unfortunately sullied his name, but while he was on his game, there was no better song-and-dance man in the business.
"I have been invited to say something about how dancers feel about Fred Astaire. It's no secret. We hate him.He gives us complexes, because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity that's hard to face... you give your own performance and receive applause and you think maybe, just maybe, it was successful, and you go home ... and turn on the television to relax and there he is. Making you feel nervous all over again. You remember the remark by Ilie Nastase about Bjorn Borg: 'We are playing tennis. He is playing something else.' It's the same with Fred Astaire -- we are dancing, but he is doing something else."
I think we all have those moments, do we not? There was a chess grandmaster a while back who, after a tournament with Bobby Fischer, said something like, he thanked the other players for their games. He thanked Mr. Fischer on behalf of them all for the lesson. Me, I write a little something. Then I open up Steinbeck, and there's a literary explosion, and I think, "Who am I trying to kid?"
Yeah, I'm an Astaire admirer. And yes, I like good dancing. I feel fortunate to have seen the gamut from Astaire to Michael Jackson, who unfortunately sullied his name, but while he was on his game, there was no better song-and-dance man in the business.
I love to dance!
Loved Fame, Flashdance, Dirty Dancing, Saturday Night Fever and
All That Jazz
Loved Fame, Flashdance, Dirty Dancing, Saturday Night Fever and
All That Jazz
Yeah the dancing was pretty good in that movie, especially that "dance" in the swimming pool that Kyle MacLachlan and Elizabeth Berkley performed......YEOW!!...Showgirls....
