Encyclopedia - Choreography: Encyclopedia - Choreography
Although mainly used in relation to dance the term choreography can be applied to various settings including: Stage combat (action or fi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Dance - Choreography And Notation
Main articles: Choreography, Dance notation Choreography is the art of making dances and the generic name given to predetermined sequence...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dance Notation: Encyclopedia - Dance Notation
Dance notation is the symbolic representation of dance movement, it is analogous to Movement notation but can be limited to representing ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dance: Encyclopedia - Dance
Dance (from Old French dancier, perhaps from Frankish) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression (see also b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dance Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Dance Notation - Notation And Computers
In the field of Dance technology there are four areas of dance notation research and development: notation editing software for the crea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zwiefacher: Encyclopedia Ii - Zwiefacher - Choreography
The couple turn very quickly in close position, similar to the Waltz. The main feature of this dance is the alternation between even and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paula Abdul: Encyclopedia Ii - Paula Abdul - Dancing And Choreography
Abdul began her career as the head cheerleader and choreographer for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team. She started choreographing t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Benesh Movement Notation: Encyclopedia - Benesh Movement Notation
Benesh Movement Notation is a system of dance notation that can document any form of human movement. Invented by Joan and Rudolf Benesh i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Historical Dance: Encyclopedia - Historical Dance
Historical dance (or early dance) in a collective term covering a wide variety of dance types from the past as they are danced in the pre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Algebraic Chess Notation: Encyclopedia - Algebraic Chess Notation
Algebraic chess notation is the method used today by all competition chess organizations and most books, magazines, and newspapers to rec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caller Dancing: Encyclopedia - Caller Dancing
A caller is a person who calls dance figures in such dances as line dance, square dance, and contra dance. The caller might be one of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dance Dance Revolution: Encyclopedia - Dance Dance Revolution
Dance Dance Revolution, or DDR (known as Dancing Stage in Europe), is a music video game series produced by Konami. It was introduced to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Belly Dance: Encyclopedia - Belly Dance
Belly dance is a Western name coined for a style of dance developed in the Middle East and other Arabic-influenced areas. In the Arabic l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dance Dance Revolution Extreme: Encyclopedia - Dance Dance Revolution Extreme
Dance Dance Revolution EXTREME is the eighth game in the Dance Dance Revolution series of music video games. It was released in arcades ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abc Notation: Encyclopedia - Abc Notation
abc, developed by Chris Walshaw, is a language designed to notate music—tunes and lyrics—in ASCII format. It was originally designed ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Basic Dance Topics: Encyclopedia - List Of Basic Dance Topics
Below is a list of basic topics in dance—topics which will help the beginner become familiar with the artistic field of dance. (For a c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ghost Dance: Encyclopedia - Ghost Dance
The Ghost Dance — also known as the Ghost Dance of 1890 — as noted in historical accounts, is a millennialist spiritual movement amon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Big O Notation: Encyclopedia - Big O Notation
Big O notation is a mathematical notation used to describe the asymptotic behavior of functions. More precisely, it is used to describe a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Business Object Notation: Encyclopedia - Business Object Notation
In software engineering, Business Object Notation (BON) is a method and graphical notation for high-level object-oriented analysis and de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bra-ket Notation: Encyclopedia - Bra-ket Notation
Bra-ket notation is the standard notation for describing quantum states in the theory of quantum mechanics. It can also be used to denote...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baroque Dance: Encyclopedia - Baroque Dance
Dance during the Baroque era in Europe was closely linked with Baroque art and Baroque music. Numerous paintings and writings show the im...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charleston Dance: Encyclopedia - Charleston Dance
The Charleston is a dance, named for the city of Charleston, South Carolina. It was popular in the 1920s, and spawned Lindy Hop in the 19...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cycle Notation: Encyclopedia - Cycle Notation
in combinatorial mathematics, the cycle notation is a useful convention for writing down a permutation in terms of its constituent cycles...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Z Notation: Encyclopedia - Z Notation
The Z notation (universally pronounced zed, named after Zermelo-Fränkel set theory) is a formal specification language used for describi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Billie Jean: Encyclopedia Ii - Billie Jean - Choreography
"Billie Jean" is generally regarded as the pinnacle of most Michael Jackson performances and stage shows. The song has been the key featu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dance Technology: Encyclopedia Ii - Dance Technology - Practice And Research
Dance technology fields incude: Motion capture: 1 2 3 Virtual Dance (choreographic animation) Dance for camera Movement generated sound ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Contra Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Contra Dance - Contra Dance Events
A typical evening of contra dance is 3 hours long, including an intermission. During a typical event, attendees will dance a number of in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wanna Be Startin' Somethin': Encyclopedia Ii - Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' - Performances And Choreography
One of the songs released as a single without an accompanying video, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" nonetheless has attained a popularity ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caller Dancing: Encyclopedia Ii - Caller Dancing - The Round Dance Cuer
Round dance cuers recite rehearsed, pre-choreographed sequences of figures. Unlike callers in Salsa Rueda or modern Western square dance,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scientific Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Scientific Notation - Description
In scientific notation numbers are written as where the exponent b is an integer and a is any real number. The number represented by a i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Descriptive Chess Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Descriptive Chess Notation - Notation For Moves
Each move of a piece is indicated by a sequence of characters. Castling has its own sequence of characters and special indicators are add...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musicality Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Musicality Dance - Notes
Tempo: Slower music gives dancers more time to play, more time for style and variations. Faster music forces dancers to be more creative ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kenneth Macmillan: Encyclopedia Ii - Kenneth Macmillan - Choreography
Although a talented dancer, MacMillan is best known for his choreography, and particularly for his work with the Royal Ballet and the Deu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Descriptive Chess Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Descriptive Chess Notation - Advantages
By identifying each square with reference to the player on move, descriptive notation better reflects the symmetry of the game's starting...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Line Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Line Dance - Description
In a small group there may be only one line, but usually there are several parallel lines, one behind the other. A dance teacher, or more...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thai Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Thai Dance - Khon
Khon is the most stylised form of Thai dance. It is performed by troupes of non-speaking dancers, the story being told by a chorus at the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Street Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Street Dance - Characteristics
In opposite to many other dance forms, most street dances encourage individuality and originality, and that dancers interpret the existin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Dance - Dances
"Reel", "slipjig", "hornpipe", and "jig" are used to define dances, but refer in fact to types of Irish traditional music. Reels are in 2...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Balboa Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Balboa Dance - Description
Balboa dance - Body Position. The dancers stand close, touching from hip to upper chest. This makes communication with body language ve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Beat It: Encyclopedia Ii - Beat It - Performances & Choreography
The video for "Beat It" follows an uncomplicated narrative: it opens in a diner, where two men walk outside (the music begins when the do...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scottish Highland Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Scottish Highland Dance - Basic Description Of Highland Dancing
Nowadays, Highland dancing, which can be seen at nearly every modern day Highland games event. is a highly competitive and technical danc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reel Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Reel Dance - Description
It is believed that the reel was originated from an old Irish dance called the Hey in the mid 1500's[citation needed]. Today many Irish r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caller Dancing: Encyclopedia Ii - Caller Dancing - The Modern Western Square Dance Caller
The role of a caller in modern Western square dance is not only to provide the dance steps which all of the dancers on the floor should b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Descriptive Chess Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Descriptive Chess Notation - Naming Squares On The Board
In descriptive chess notation each square has two names, depending on black's or white's viewpoint. Each file is given a name correspondi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Basic Dance Topics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Basic Dance Topics - Dance Categories
The categories below are not mutually exclusive. For example, tango is doubtless a partner dance. While it is mostly social dance, its ba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Algebraic Chess Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Algebraic Chess Notation - Common Shorthand Notation
The following short-hand notations are frequently used to comment moves: ! a good move !! an excellent move ? a mistake ?? a blunder !? ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scientific Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Scientific Notation - Using Scientific Notation
Scientific notation - Converting. Multiplication and division by 10 are easy to perform both with the mantissa and with the exponential...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scottish Country Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Scottish Country Dance - The Dances
Scottish country dance - General. Scottish country dances are categorised as reels (including hornpipes), jigs, and strathspeys accordi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Algebraic Chess Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Algebraic Chess Notation - Similar Notations
Algebraic chess notation - PGN. Chess games are often stored in computer files using Portable Game Notation (PGN), which uses algebraic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Square Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Square Dance - Comparing Square Dance Calls
In this context a "call" refers to the name of a specific dance step. It may alternatively refer to the phrase used by a caller to cue th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Dance - Legacy Of Modern Dance
The legacy on Modern dance can be seen in lineage of 20th century concert dance forms. Although often producing divergent dance forms man...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess Notation - Chess Notation For Recording A Game Of Chess
Chess move notation should describe the pieces involved, the end (and for clarity start) location, and any resulting effect (capture, che...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Round Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Round Dance - Cued Round Dances
Modern social round dancing is choreographed and cued ballroom dancing that progresses in a circular pattern, counter-clockwise around th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Notation - Other Notation Systems
Musical notation - Figured bass. Main article: Figured bass Figured bass notation originated in baroque basso continuo parts. It is a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Notation - Standard Notation Described
Musical notation - Elements of the staff. A staff (in British English, also stave) is generally presented with a clef, which indicates ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parts Per Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Parts Per Notation - Types Of Parts-per Notations
Parts per notation - Caveats. Of all the pp- variants, ppm is by far the one in most common usage; ppb is also sparingly used, while th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Notation - Other Notation Systems
Musical notation - Figured bass. Figured bass notation originated in baroque basso continuo parts. It is also used extensively in accor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Dance - History
Modern dance - Free dance. main article: Free dance 1891 - Loie Fuller (a burlesque skirt dancer) began experimenting with the effect ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Belly Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Belly Dance - Male Belly Dancing
There is much debate over where and when men became part of the belly dance world. Many believe that men have no place in this art form, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Actuarial Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Actuarial Notation - Example Notation
Actuarial notation - Interest rate. , the annual effective rate of interest, is the interest rate applying generally, over a year. Thus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scientific Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Scientific Notation - Motivation
Scientific notation is a very convenient way to write large or small numbers. It also quickly conveys two properties of a measurement tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Notation - Standard Notation Described
Musical notation - Elements of the staff. A staff (in British English, also stave) is generally presented with a clef, which indicates ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Notation - Origins
There is some evidence that a kind of musical notation was practiced by the Egyptians from the 3rd millennium BC and by others in the Ori...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Line Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Line Dance - Terms
Line dance - Count. A dance will have a number of counts, for example a 64-count dance. This is the number of beats of music it would t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Belly Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Belly Dance - Belly Dance In The U.s.a
With its initial emergence at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial, the last four decades of the 20th century moved Belly Dance in the USA mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Footwork Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Footwork Dance - Ballroom Dancing
In a narrow sense, e.g., in descriptions of ballroom dance figures, the term refers to the behavior of the foot when it meets the floor. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Dances: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Dances - Album Cover Description
Shaggy haired and sinewy Jandek looks to our right in the right 1/4 of the frame. A featureless brick wall dominates the left 3/4. To the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Notation - Origins
There is some evidence that a kind of musical notation was practiced by the Egyptians from the 3rd millennium BC and by others in the Ori...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dance Technology: Encyclopedia Ii - Dance Technology - Artists Groups And Institutions
Dance technology - Artists. Johannes Birringer Leslie Bishko Mark Coniglio Merce Cunningham Kent De Spain Richard Deutsch Scott deLahu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Western Square Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Western Square Dance - History Of Modern Western Square Dance
Modern Western square dance - Traditional western square dance. Keywords: cowboy dance, frontier, folk dances from Europe, new developm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Contemporary Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Contemporary Dance - History
Contemporary dance - Seminal artists. Notable artists in the field of contemporary dance include: Martha Graham, Trisha Brown, David G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dance Dance Revolution 1stmix: Encyclopedia Ii - Dance Dance Revolution 1stmix - Interface And Graphics
The song-selection interface of DDR 1st Mix is a jukebox-like menu of CDs that represent the available songs. On this screen, various "st...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abuse Of Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Abuse Of Notation - Examples
John Harrison cites "the use of f(x) to represent both application of a function f to an argument x, and the image under f of a subset, x...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tap Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Tap Dance - History
Tap dance began in the 1830s in the Five Points neighborhood of New York City as a fusion of the African Shuffle and Irish, Scottish, and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dumbek Rhythms: Encyclopedia Ii - Dumbek Rhythms - Notation
This is the simple dumbek rhythm notation for the 2/4 rhythm known as ayyoub: 1 + 2 + D  kD T This might be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tap Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Tap Dance - Steps In Tap Dancing
The simplest step is the toe tap, using the ball of your foot to make a sound. The same sound can come from the heel, although often it i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mathematical Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Mathematical Notation - History
Mathematical notation - Counting. It is believed that a mathematical notation was first developed at least 50,000 years ago in order to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Street Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Street Dance - Battles
Most street dances involve battles of some sort, where individuals or groups of people, so called crews, dance against each other, with t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Landau Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Landau Notation - Applications
Main applications of Landau notations are found in complexity theory and asymptotic analysis. The o notation can be used to define deriva...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Einstein Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Einstein Notation - Introduction
In mechanics and engineering, vectors in 3D space are often described in relation to orthogonal unit vectors i, j and k. If the basis ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asymptotic Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Asymptotic Notation - Definitions
The O-notation means that the function is bounded from above (also known as dominated) by a function which varies like f, i.e., Thus, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Line Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Line Dance - History
Line dance is popularly thought of as originating in the Wild West. In fact, its roots go back far in history. Folk dances, including the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Of Italy: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of Italy - Musical Notation
Modern Musical notation may have begun in Italy, although the oldest surviving examples of music notation are from Regensburg in Germany,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Landau Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Landau Notation - Definition
Landau's notation is defined in the following way: If f,g are complex valued functions defined on a neighbourhood of some point xo (which...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Western Square Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Western Square Dance - Dancing Modern Western Square Dance
Dancing well requires more than attendance at class, it requires practice. The more often the dancer can train the better their skills be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hungarian Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Hungarian Notation - Examples
The mnemonics for pointers and arrays, which are not actual data types, are usually followed by the type of the data element itself: psz...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Knuth's Up-arrow Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Knuth's Up-arrow Notation - Notation
In expressions such as ab, the notation for exponentiation is usually to write the exponent b as a superscript to the base number a. But ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dance Dance Revolution Extreme: Encyclopedia Ii - Dance Dance Revolution Extreme - Gameplay
The general premise of DDR EXTREME is the same as the previous Dance Dance Revolution games. One player can play using one dance pad (Sin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Balboa Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Balboa Dance - History
Balboa was invented in the 1930s and 1940s in Southern California. Balboa is named for the Balboa Peninsula, in Newport Beach, California...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Country Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - English Country Dance - History
In the early 20th century, ECD was revived in England by Cecil Sharp, who also was known for collecting folksongs. ECD continues today as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Algebraic Chess Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Algebraic Chess Notation - Example
Moves are generally written in one of two ways. (1) written in two columns, as a white/black pair, preceded by the move number and a peri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dance Dance Revolution 1stmix: Encyclopedia Ii - Dance Dance Revolution 1stmix - Music
The music in DDR 1st Mix consists of eight songs licensed from the Dancemania record label, and three Konami Originals. The three additio...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dance: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Dance
dance: See: tandava, Nataraja. (See also: Dance , Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Dancing: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Dream: I Am Flying, Swimming Or Dancing Joyfully
Dancing : Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Dream: I am flying, swimming or dancing joyfully   Dream: I am flying, swimming or...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dancing: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Dancing
Dancing : Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Dancing   Dancing: Generally this is a good dream. If you are dancing, there are g...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Delta Notation: Oceanography Dictionary - Delta Notation
  Definition and meaning of delta notation:   delta notation - the absolute abundance of an isotope is difficult to measu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Dance - History Of Dance
Main article: History of dance Throughout history, dance has been a part of ceremony, rituals, celebrations and entertainment. It is trac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Dance - Categories Of Dance
Dance can be divided into two main categories that each have several subcategories into which most dance styles can be placed. They are: ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Dance - Dance And Music
Although dance and music can be traced back to prehistoric times it is unclear which artform came first. However, as rhythm and sound are...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Dance - Dance Studies
In the early 1920s dance studies (dance practice, critical theory, analysis and history) began to be considered a serious academic discip...   » Read the article