Robert Hilburn of Los Angeles Times described "Yeah!" as a "raucous tale of dance-floor seduction" which pop musician Michael Jackson would have produced in 2004, if he "still had the old Thriller magic".
Christopher Challis was one of the leading cinematographers of British cinema's heyday, whose films framed tales of dance and derring-do, romance and comic invention.
There is no more compelling tale in all of dance music right now than the meteoric rise of the mysterious producer known as ZHU.
The old tales of time dance in his pupils.
In fact it was in reference to BCM that I had first heard the term 'super-club', four years earlier when my big brother had returned from Maga telling tales of a dance citadel in the sun where all your dreams came true - where Carl Cox and Danny Rampling ferried you and a thousand others right the way into the heart of a glorious new future.
Not much of a film noir plot, I admit -- but even so, it's a story whose unpleasant twists we know all too well: The tale of the delicate dance known (in certain circles) as interoperability.
Quote of note: "The very first dream in my life was to be a dancer -- a dancer who just dances, dances, dances," said Abdul, who told her tale of getting her first professional dance job as a Los Angeles Laker Girl.
The challenge of "L'Histoire du Soldat" ("The Soldier's Tale") is deciding on the balance of dance, acting and narration, which alternate and mingle within the musical framework.
In ballet, when the timelessness of a great fairy tale meets the ephemeral nature of dance, you end up with a "Swan Lake," a work that never loses its ability to enchant.
But the tale of how an obscure dance track containing possible copyright violations rose to the top of pop charts illustrates not only the free-for-all nature of underground dance music but also the power of an Internet fad to create a sudden hit outside the major-label system.
BALLET BIARRITZ, from France, is offering THIERRY MALANDAIN's "CREATION," which combines the biblical tale of Creation with the history of dance -- all in only 70 minutes.
