I Didn't Want To Be

I Miss The Romance. I Keep Saying This Over And Over Again, But Dance Follows Music. And If The Accent Today Is Percussion And Rhythm And Loudness, Then That Is The Way The Dance Numbers Will Be. But It Is Pretty Hard On Romance With Seven Guitars, Three Drums, And No Melody Instruments In The Band.

The Only Thing Is That Ordinarily When I Do Dance With [women] They Think I Am Suddenly Going To Throw Them Over A Table Or Twist Them All Around. All I Want To Do Is One-two, One-two-three - A Simple Fox Trot. But They're Shaking With Anticipation At The Thought That I'm About To Whip Them Around And Then Toss Them On The Roof.

It Fit Into My Scheme Of Things For Many Reasons. At The Time It Was True That Male Dancers Were Looked Down Upon, And It Was True That A Lot Of The Male Dancers Were Effeminate. But What I Was Really Trying To Do Was Develop Something That Would Be American.

When Ginger Rogers Danced With Astaire, It Was The Only Time In The Movies When You Looked At The Man, Not The Woman.

I Think Dancing Is A Man's Game And If He Does It Well He Does It Better Than A Woman.