Harold Nicholas quotes
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“We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.”
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“I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.”
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“If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.”
-- Harold Nicholas
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“The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.”
Source : Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co
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Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.234, New York Review of Books
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Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.233, New York Review of Books
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“We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.”
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