“Teach me to dance, will you?” Basil (Alan Bates) asks Zorba (Anthony Quinn) in the last scene of the splendiferous 1964 film “Zorba the Greek”.

“Dance?”  Zorba replies, giving Basil a look of genuine happiness, “Did you say DANCE?”

A couple of  pertinent thoughts on dancing:

“Dance, when you’re broken open.

Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off.

Dance in the middle of the fighting.

Dance in your blood.

Dance when you’re perfectly free.”

Rumi

 

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” 

Voltaire

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