Cholly Atkins famous quotes

Your background has a lot to do with your approach to movement.
-- Cholly Atkins

#Movement #Backgrounds #Approach

So it would be a happy marriage between the movement and the vocal and uh, this is the thing that you give a lot of consideration to.
-- Cholly Atkins

#Giving #Movement #Would Be

Well, the most important thing in choreographing for a specific tune is to get the story line and try to make your movements, rather than just actual movements, let them become more or less a physical drama to, to what they were singing about. And uh, also, uh, honor the beat and the rhythmic pattern of the musical track.
-- Cholly Atkins

#Drama #Track #Musical

There's a lot that goes into training, singers to eventually become performers. There's, projection, uh, which in many cases the artist was never concerned about.
-- Cholly Atkins

#Artist #Training #Singers

In vocal choreography you had to give a lot of consideration to the fact that you were working with singers and not dancers. But you had to make singers look like they were dancers, and to make the movements as natural as possible, and there to be an association with the movement, uh, somewhat to what the lyric was saying.
-- Cholly Atkins

#Giving #Dancer #Looks

You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the mike area and start singing, especially the background singers, you know. And you had to make sure they had a couple of bars of music in order to catch their breath. And uh, in many cases a lot of choreographers didn't give that, uh, the proper thought.
-- Cholly Atkins

#Couple #Artist #Order

speaking with, uh, about the vocal choreography, one of the first groups that I worked with was a group called the Cadillacs, which was uh, an exceptionally talented group. They all moved well and they sort of established Cholly Atkins's style. In other words they basically put me on the map, and everybody would look at them and see their choreography and they wanted to know who did it, so they would tell them.
-- Cholly Atkins

#Style #Groups #Looks

Well, the difference in working with the Supremes and the other girl groups like Martha and the Vandellas, and the Marvelettes, you let the material dictate to you, uh, really, how you worked with the group, and with the talent, and the personalities. All of these things was instrumental in having all of the groups, uh, retain their own identity. Uh, and, and the material had a lot to do with it, you know.
-- Cholly Atkins

#Girl #Differences #Personality

I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.

Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects. So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.

Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

My background is in health care.

I've dug so deep into his background, I can practically tell you when he stopped waring diapers.

I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

Approach each asana with freshness every day.

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.