“If you can walk, you can dance” (dance adage)

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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.

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Entry from May 05, 2015

“If you can walk, you can dance” (dance adage)

Entry in progress—B.P.

“If you can talk, you can sing” is a similar expression.

OCLC WorldCat record
If You Can Walk: You Can Dance!
Author: Drayton E Marsh
Edition/Format: Article Article : English
Publication: The Clearing House, v15 n4 (19401201): 241-243
Database: JSTOR Arts & Sciences VI Collection

OCLC WorldCat record
If you can walk, you can dance : if you can talk, you can sing
Author: S David Stamps; Israel Tribble, Jr.
Publisher: Silver Springs, MD. : Beckham House Publishers, 1995.
Edition/Format: Print book : English

OCLC WorldCat record
If you can walk you can dance : how generalist primary teachers develop confidence and competence to teach dance : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education.
Author: Elizabeth Melchior
Dissertation: Thesis (M.Ed.)—Victoria University of Wellington, [2005]
Edition/Format: Thesis/dissertation : Thesis/dissertation : English

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