My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls

Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

You go out dancing and it counts. You clean the house and it counts. So at the end of the month, you get to go shopping.

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

He had created a folk dancing demonstration group of youngsters in his Cheyenne Mountain School. After seeing a demonstration at a fair, he added square dancing to his dancers' repertoire. He developed new figures, frontier costumes and brought all the dancers into the action at the same time.