Main article: History of dance Throughout history, dance has been a part of ceremony, rituals, celebrations and entertainment. It is traceable through archeological evidence from prehistoric times to the first examples of written and pictorial documentation in 200 BC. Many contemporary dance forms can be traced back to historical, traditional, ceremonial, and ethnic dances. Had it not been for the work of the fifteenth century professor of mathematics, Jehan de Tabourot who published a dance manual (Orchesography) using an anagram of his name, many of the earlier forms of ...

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Modern dance - Free dance. main article: Free dance 1891 - Loie Fuller (a burlesque skirt dancer) began experimenting with the effect that gas lighting had on her silk costumes. Fuller developed a form of natural movement and improvisation techniques that were used in conjunction with her revolutionary lighting equipment and translucent silk costumes. 1903 - Isadora Duncan developed a dance technique influenced by the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and a belief that danc ...

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Dance (from Old French dancier, perhaps from Frankish) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression (see also body language) or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. Dance is also used to describe methods of non-verbal communication between humans or animals (bee dance, mating dance), motion in inanimate objects (the leaves danced in the wind), and certain musical forms or genres. People who dance are called dancers and the act of dance is kn ...

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Mime artists have traditionaly been doing mannequin impersonations. As a dance it was popularized by The Jackson 5 when performing their 1974 hit "Dancing Machine". The dance has a certain comical appeal, and is also frequently referenced artifact of the 1970s and 1980s. ...

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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 "Virginia Reel", are danced in line formation. There have been line dances during the heyday of many modern popular music styles, including swing, rock and roll, and disco. Line dancing's current popularity grew out of the disco period, when the country-western dance and music communities continued to exp ...

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Contemporary dance - Seminal artists. Notable artists in the field of contemporary dance include: Martha Graham, Trisha Brown, David Gordon, Lucinda Childs, Yvonne Rainer, James Waring, Kenneth King; Deborah Hay (movement studies, dance scripts, communal dance forms); Steve Paxton (Contact Improvisation); Merce Cunningham (chance procedures and engagement with new technologies); Anna Halprin (working with site-specific/environmental ritual/therapeutic communal forms). American pos ...

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Molly dancers have been recorded in many parts of the English Midlands and East Anglia. It died out finally in the 1930s, the last dancers seen dancing in Littleport near Ely, in 1934(?). The only recorded Molly dances come from Comberton and Girton, villages just outside Cambridge, researched by Russell Wortley and Cyril Papworth. ...

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Dancing at Lughnasa (see references to Lughnasa, or Lughnasadh, the ancient pagan ritual) is a play by Brian Friel set in Ireland's County Donegal in August 1936. Set in the fictional town of Ballybeg (small town in Gaelic), it is a memory play told from the point of view of Michael, the narrator. He recounts the summer in his aunts' cottage when he was seven years old. Dancing at Lughnasa - Summary. The five Mundy sisters (Kate, Maggie, Agnes, Chris, Rose), all unmarried, live in a small cott ...

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The Ghost Dance — also known as the Ghost Dance of 1890 — as noted in historical accounts, is a millennialist spiritual movement among Native Americans in the United States that began toward the end of 1888 and reached its peak just before the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. Although the religion is still practiced, it enjoyed only a short period of popularity. Ghost Dance - History. The movement began with the sounds of a baby crying late at night and its mother dancing around to quiet the child ...

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Based on older dances such as the mambo, the Hustle originated in Hispanic communities in New York and Florida in the 1970's. A line dance which was called Hustle became an international dance craze in 1975 following Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony's "Hustle". Tipped off by DJ David Todd, McCoy sent his partner Charlie Kipps to the Adam's Apple disco of New York's East Side. McCoy wrote the tune and arrangement while watching a secrectary Kipps had noticed at the disco demonstrate the dance. The forthcoming album was renamed Disco Baby and McCoy was named "Top Instrumental Arti ...

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Ballet is the name given to a specific dance form and technique. Works of dance choreographed using this technique are called ballets, and may include: dance, mime, acting and music (orchestral and sung). Ballets can be performed alone or as part of an opera. Ballet is best known for its virtuoso techniques such as pointe work, grand pas de deux and high leg extensions. Many ballet techniques bear a striking similarity to fencing positions and footwork, perhaps due to their development during the same periods of history, but more probably, because both arts had similar r ...

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Viennese Waltz is the name of a ballroom dance. At least three different meanings are recognized. In the historically first sense, the name may refer to several versions of the waltz, including the earliest waltzes done in ballroom dancing, dances to the music of Viennese Waltz. As the Waltz evolved, some of the versions that were done at about the original fast tempo of ballroom waltzes came to be called specifically "Viennese Waltz" to distinguish them from the slower waltzes. In the modern ballroom dance, two versions of Viennese Waltz ar ...

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Balboa was invented in the 1930s and 1940s in Southern California. Balboa is named for the Balboa Peninsula, in Newport Beach, California where it was invented. It is believed to have started at the Balboa Pavilion [1] in Newport Beach. A small, active Balboa community has always existed in the Los Angeles area. Today, Balboa is resurging world-wide. Some of the original Balboa dancers once said, "We can't tell you how to dance Balboa, but we can te ...

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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 English step dances. Perhaps the most influential of all were the syncopation of African music and dance and the Irish jig. Dancers from different immigrant groups would get together to compete and show off their best moves. As the dances fused, a new American style of dancing emerged. Tap flourished in the U.S. from 1900 to 1955, when it was the main performance dance of Vaudeville and Broad ...

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By the 1700s ballet had migrated from the French court to the Paris Opera, and the director Lully ‘preserved the ballet du cour’s basic concept of a composite form, in which the dance was an essential and important element.’ ibid. During this century the ballet was to develop throughout Europe, from a courtly arrangement of moving images used as part of a larger spectacle, to a performance art in its own right, the ballet d’action. This new form swept away much of the artificiality of the court dance and strove towards ‘the concept ...

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Salsa music is a fusion of traditional African and Cuban and other Latin-American rhythms that traveled from the islands (Cuba and Puerto Rico) to New York during the migration, somewhere between the 1940s and the 1970s, depending on where one puts the boundary between "real" salsa and its predecessors. The dance steps currently being danced on salsa music originate from the Cuban son, but has influences from many other Cuban dances such as Mambo, Chá, Guaracha, Changuí, Lukumí, Palo Monte, Rumba, Yambú, Abakuá, Comparsa and some times ...

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The movement began with the sounds of a baby crying late at night and its mother dancing around to quiet the child down back in 1852. The child, Wovoka, claimed that in his dream, he was taken into the spirit world and saw all Native Americans being taken up into the sky and the Earth opening up to swallow all Whites and to revert back to its natural state. The Native Americans, along with their ancestors, were put back upon the earth to live in peace. He also claimed that he was shown that by dancing the round-dance continuously, the dream would become a reality and the ...

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Since the Ballets Russes began revolutionising ballet in the early 20th century, there have been continued attempts to break the mould of classical ballet. Currently the artistic scope of ballet technique (and its accompanying music, décor, and multimedia) is more all-encompassing than ever. The boundaries that classify a work of classical ballet are constantly being stretched, muddied and blurred u ...

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It seems that forms of sword dancing were performed by warriors in many parts of Europe in the prehistoric period. Forms of sword dancing are also attested in the late Medieval period.Ritualistic and combative dances that imitated epic deeds and martial skills were a familiar feature in Scottish tradition and folklore. The earliest reference to these dances in Scotland is mentioned in the 'Scotichronicon' which was compiled in Scotland by Walter Bower in the 1440's. The passage regards Alexander III and his second marriage to the French nobl ...

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