Rooftop Salsa Dance Party @ Fondren Corner (5.29.09)

like the title says, there was a rooftop salsa dance party on the roof of Fondren Corner (located right in the heart of the Fondren Arts District of Jackson)

photographing dance is always a challenge.  there’s an energy to dance that is…well, it’s hard.

one of my favortie photographers, Annie Leibovitz, wrote in her recent book Annie Leibovitz: At Work , how, after staying for three weeks with Mark Morris and Mikhail Baryshnikov and photographing them and their dancers as they worked to constuct a new show she came to a conclusion that ended up being one of my favorite quotes of that book.

“I begin to understand that dance can’t be photographed, or even filmed for that matter, it’s an art that lives in the air”

Dance.

that movement.

that energy.

the laughing and the sweat and the flow of the music.

but just because something’s hard/impossible doesn’t mean it should stop you from trying to do it anyway.

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire”
- George Bernard Shaw

“We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.”
- Japanese Proverb

“Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.”
– Pierce Brosnon

“Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.”
– Charles Baudelaire

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.”
- Faith Whittlesey

“Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing.”
- James Brown

“Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.”
- Edwin Denby

“We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive… and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.”
- D.H. Lawrence

“Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.”
- W.H. Auden

“Nobody cares if you can’t dance well.  Just get up and dance.”
- Dave Barry

“Learning to walk set you free. Learning to dance gives you the greatest freedom of all: to express with your whole self the person you are.”
- Melissa Hayden

“Talk about dance?  Dance is not something to talk about.  Dance is to dance.”
- Peter Saint James

“To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.”
- Hopi Indian Saying

“Dancers are the athletes of God.”
- Albert Einstein

“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds.  A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
- William James

“Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it’s the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.”
- Christopher Morley, “Kitty Foyle”

“Dance is the only art in which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.”
- Ted Shawn

“The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.”
- Agnes de Mille

“The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.”
- Curt Sachs

“While I dance I can not judge, I can not hate, I can not separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. This is why I dance.”
- Hans Bos

“Dance for yourself, if someone understands good. If not then no matter, go right on doing what you love.”
- Lois Hurst

“On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.”
- George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

(and a special shout out to Rachel Jarman of The Bachelorettes.  thanks for reading the blog.  and for always dancing like there’s no-one watching)

have a good one everyone!  see ya next post.

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