STRICTLY "QUOTE" DANCING
A COMICAL COLLECTION OF
1500 TONGUE-IN-CHEEK-TO-CHEEK
DANCE QUOTATIONS
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.
BOOK DETAILS
Pages: 212
Cover: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-907338-02-1
Price: £8.99 (exc p&p)
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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 TV.
"Strictly... is a proper, serious, intelligent sport. Unlike football, which is just some petty form of light entertainment."
Viv Groskop in The Mail on Sunday (2009)
"That's pro-celebrity Ballroom for you. It damn near strips a man naked, bar the sequins."
Giles Smith in The Times (2006)
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.
Katy Guest in The Independent on Sunday (2007)
Inspired by the BBC TV show Strictly Come Dancing, this book delivers enough comical content to fill the most discerning judge's dance card.
"People love to follow celebrities and watch them being humiliated. In the past we had the stocks; now we have Strictly..."
Craig Revel Horwood in The Daily Mail (2008)
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 first 7 seasons of 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.
On why he agreed to take part in Strictly... - "It was the prospect of dancing with a woman for a change."
Julian Clary (2004)
"When Strictly... first quick-stepped onto our screens, it was as fresh and innocent as a newly-sewn sequin on a novice's ballgown."
Amanda Platell in The Daily Mail (2009)
"When it comes to the Strictly... debate, I'm on John Sergeant's side. We who Salsa like reversing dump-trucks have to stick together."
Rowan Pelling in The Daily Telegraph (2008)
As well S.C.D. other TV dance shows (from Come Dancing to So You Think You Can Dance) are also covered...
"These days you can't swing a sequined dress without hitting a dance reality TV show."
Emily Macel in Dance magazine (2008)
"It goes without saying S.Y.T.Y.C.D. should have been called So You Think You Can Be Any More Like X Factor And Britain's Got Talent If You Try?"
Ian Hyland in The News of the World (2010)
This book includes comical content about famous dancers ...
"Patrick Swayze is a watchable bundle of tempting testosterone."
Katharine Dieckmann in The Village Voice (1987)
"In Saturday Night Fever, John Travolta jay-walked across the disco floor with the hormonal dazzle of a porno polyester peacock."
Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly (2000)
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.
As a taster of what the book holds in store, here is a further sample of quotations ...
"Dancing is beautiful and sexy, unless it's at an open-bar wedding reception."
Ross Werland
"Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health - it rusts your spirit and your hips."
Adabella Radici
"If ballroom dancing is the new sex, then Anton Du Beke is its Dr. Alex Comfort. He pulls on the waistband of his trousers and wiggles it around. His sorrowful eyes are as big and glistening as Medjool dates ... he is a cross between a camp Svengali and a merciless chiropractor."
Elizabeth Grice in The Daily Telegraph (2004)
"You know what they say about revenge: Best taken in a frilly frock."
Anton Du Beke
"Theoretically, I am ready to go to anything - once. If it moves, I'm interested; if it moves to music, I'm in love."
Arlene Croce in The New Yorker (2000)
"Mixing Ballet and Breakdance is like mixing apples and space-ships."
Touré in USA Today (2001)
"Tap dance has that contradictory posture: Buster Keaton from the waist up, Jim Carrey from the waist down."
Richard Corliss in Time magazine (2002)
"There will be a rain dance Friday night ... weather permitting."
George Carlin
DANCING WITH THE STARS USA - "George Hamilton is 66. It doesn't matter. He's in his element, shimmying across the floor with the grace of a man half his age hoping against hope that the knee cartilage holds out."
Duncan Kennedy on BBC.co.uk (2006)
Dance movies ...
PULP FICTION (1994) - "Travolta in a Twist contest with Uma Thurman during the legendary scene at Jack Rabbit Slims; so cool, they reach all the way round the thermometer and wind up at 'hot' again."
Richard Ouzounian in The Toronto Star (2007)
BILLY ELLIOT
"When Billy asks his mate, 'Who do you think is better, Fred Astaire or Ginger Rogers?' you know you're in for a sticky-sweet ride aboard the treacle train."
Mark Savlov in The Austin Chronicle (2000)
COYOTE UGLY
"The movie's 'Odessa Steps' is a stompin', Charlie Daniels'-scored Riverdance that could drive a dog to suicide."
Michael Atkinson in The Village Voice (2000)
DANCE FLICK
"Back in the day, they probably would have called it You Got To Step Up 2 Be Served Hairspray And Stomp The Yard To Save The Last High School Musical."
Michael Rechtshaffen in Film Journal International (2009)
FLASHDANCE
"A seemingly impossible combination of a feminist Rocky, a bar girl Fame and Jane Fonda's Workout ... the plotting in Flashdance was as loose as the dancing."
Jay Cocks in Time magazine (1983)
Stage musicals ...
DADDY COOL
"Song-and-dance numbers in which the girls splay, split and kick their legs like Swiss Army knives with all the blades going at once and the men clutch their privates."
Rhoda Koenig in The Independent (2006)
DIRTY DANCING
"Dance is sex here; it makes losing your virginity as easy as doing the Cha-Cha-Cha."
Lyn Gardner in The Guardian (2006)
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS
"This is an ensemble piece which is at times so cleverly and frenetically choreographed that it resembles a human Red Arrows display."
Dawn Collinson in The Liverpool Echo (2006)
LORD OF THE DANCE
"This extravaganza of Vegas Celticism has been playing to houses as packed as Michael Flatley's dancing trousers."
Matthew Sweet in The Independent (1996)
Please note: STRICTLY 'QUOTE' DANCING focuses on the UK TV show. A dedicated North American version - DANCING WITH THE QUOTES is available for fans of the US dance show.
Further details at ... DWTQ Book or Amazon
Pages: 212
Cover: Paperback
ISBN: 1907338021
Price: £8.99 (exc p&p)
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