When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
Shoes have a meaning.
Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music, that's attractive, that's interesting, that's intriguing, and everyone wishes they could do that.
Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.
My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.
I think that 'Flesh and Bone' represents the dance world very authentically. There's always this aspect of drama put on top of it, and it's showcasing the problems of the dance world, but I've had experiences in reality that were written into the show.
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
Dance, to me, is an expression of who we are.
If you're passionate about the world, and if you really look closely at everything around you, each thing can be transformed into a shoe, or into a part of a shoe.
To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give a reality to one's dreams.
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