Strictly "Quote" Dancing: A Comical Collection of 1500 Tongue-in-cheek-to-cheek Dance Quotations - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907338020 ISBN 13: 9781907338021

Publisher: Blue Eyed Books, 2010

Synopsis

A COMICAL COLLECTION OF 1500 TONGUE-IN-CHEEK-TO-CHEEK DANCE QUOTATIONS

from Strictly Come Dancing to Footloose

from Daddy Cool to Hot Gossip

from the Moulin Rouge to The Red Shoes

from Arlene Phillips to Fiona Phillips

from Stomp The Yard to the Soft-Shoe Shuffle

from Nijinsky to They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

This volume of 1500 quotations is a light-hearted and light-footed tongue-in-cheek tribute to the great names in dance: Dancers, Choreographers, Films, Stage Shows, TV Programmes ... even fictional dancers, dancing animals and other lifeforms.

As its title suggests, this book pays homage to the 21st century phenomenon known as Strictly Come Dancing. As well as including many names from these global TV shows, Strictly "Quote" Dancing expands the Ballroom dance world to allow Strictly... fans the chance to explore the social and celebrity dance scene outside of their

Just as the Strictly... mantle has covered the globe like a Paso Doble cape, this book matches the international reach of social dance with a particular focus on the U.K. and U.S.A. Strictly "Quote" Dancing celebrates in comic fashion the whole glitterball of glamour, glitz and gaucheness that has always pervaded the social dance world.

Inspired by the BBC TV show Strictly Come Dancing, this book delivers enough comical content to fill the most discerning judge's dance card.

About this title

From the Publisher

This light-footed volume of 1500 light-hearted quotes covers every angle of the dance world from the Len GOODman, the LamBADa and the JitterbUGLY.

As the title suggests - this fun-packed book focuses on the 'BBC show Strictly Come Dancing' ...

It reveals an amusing aspect of the show through the words of celebrity and professional dancers, judges, hosts, fans and the media.

As well S.C.D. other TV dance shows (from Come Dancing to So You Think You Can Dance) are also covered...

This book includes comical content about famous dancers ...

As such, Strictly 'Quote' Dancing celebrates in frivolous fashion the gaudy global glitterball of glamour, glitz and garish gaucheness that has always pervaded the dance world.

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SAMPLE CHAPTER - A to Z of DANCE

ADVICE
Advice for the `Strictly...' female celebrities - Don't be shy. This is your chance to be as OTT as possible, so go for it. Let them cake you in as much make-up and glitter as they can. Women, so what if you look like a man in drag?
Georgina Bouzova in The Times (2009)

When the ghosts refuse to go away, you might as well learn to dance with them.
Ben Brantley in The New York Times (1999)

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
Confucius

Want to spend lots of time dancing with ladies? Impress them with how good they are.
Gerald Cosby

During training with Kate Garraway - Get sexy, give it some chocolate!
Anton Du Beke on Strictly Come Dancing (2007)

On the secret to a great dance partnership - Lots and lots of deodorant. And Tic Tacs on call at all times.
Brian Fortuna in The Mirror (2009)

Mr. Miyagi [Pat Morita]: Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance.
in The Next Karate Kid (1994)

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music - about affairs masculine and feminine - then take the leap in the dark.
Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm: Vol. 2 (1862)

Capt. James West [Will Smith]: Never drum on a white lady's boobies at a big redneck dance.
in Wild Wild West (1999)

Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters.
Czech Proverb

Never dance on a volcano
French Proverb

God is good, but never dance in a small boat.
Irish Proverb

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
Japanese Proverb

AGE
You haven't got anything to dance about until you're over thirty-five anyway.
Bert Balladine

How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

At my age they still expect me to jump over tables and hang from wires. Dancing is for kids.
Gene Kelly (1975)

Get hold of a 2-year-old, a person who has never read a single word about how heavy-metal musicians should be put in jail or about Tina Turner's `throaty alto range.' Put I Heard It Through The Grapevine on the stereo. Stand the 2-year-old in front of the stereo. The 2-year-old will begin to dance. The 2-year-old will drop his butt. Enough said.
Anna Quindlen in The New York Times (1987)

On dancing into her 70s - I'm not dancing like I was 30 years ago. But the first rule is, `Don't pick me up!' If you're in the air looking glamorous but doing absolutely nothing, people will think you can't move at all.
Chita Rivera in The Seattle Times (2007)

It occurred to me when I was 13 and wearing gloves and Mary Janes and going to dance school - no one should have to dance backwards all their lives.
Jill Ruckelhaus (1996)

On his preference to shake his hips to the Rumba or the Samba - At my age, we don't shake hips, we replace them.
Jerry Springer on Dancing With The Stars (2006)

When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! If you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal.
Ruth St. Denis

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
William Stafford

All dancing girls are nineteen years old.
Japanese proverb

An old woman dancing makes a great dust.
Latin Proverb

Edition details

• Publisher: Blue Eyed Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1907338020
• ISBN 13: 9781907338021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Jarman Colin M.