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| Ballroom dance |
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Partner dancing |
Ballroom dance refers to a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world. Its performance and entertainment aspects are also widely enjoyed on stage, in film, and on television.
Ballroom dance may refer,...
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| Breakdance |
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Breaking |
B-boying or breaking, commonly referred to as breakdancing, is a style of dance that evolved as part of hip-hop culture among Black and Latino American youths in the South Bronx of New York City during the 1970s. It is danced to both hip-hop and...
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| Contra dance |
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Contra dance (also contradance, contra-dance and other variant spellings) refers to several partnered folk dance styles, sometimes described as New England folk dance, in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length. Contra dances...
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| East Coast Swing |
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East Coast Lindy |
East Coast Swing (ECS) is a form of social partner dance that evolved from the Lindy Hop with the work of the Arthur Murray dance studios in the 1940s. East Coast Swing can be referred to by many different names in different regions of the United...
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| Lindy Hop |
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Swing |
The Lindy Hop is based on the popular Charleston and named for Charles Lindbergh's Atlantic crossing in 1927. It evolved in New York City in the 1920s and '30s and originally evolved with the jazz music of that time. Lindy was a fusion of many...
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CMU |
Carnegie Mellon University (also known as CMU or simply Carnegie Mellon) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university began as the Carnegie Technical Schools, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1900. In 1912, the school...
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| Square dance |
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Square dance is a folk dance with four couples (eight dancers) arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, beginning with Couple 1 facing away from the music and going counter-clockwise until getting to Couple 4. Couples 1 and 3 are known as...
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| Savoy Ballroom |
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The Savoy Ballroom located in Harlem, New York City, was a medium sized ballroom for music and public dancing that was in operation from 1926 to 1958. It was located between 140th and 141st Streets on Lenox Avenue.
The Savoy was a popular dance...
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| Charleston |
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The Charleston is a dance named for the city of Charleston, South Carolina. The rhythm was popularized in mainstream dance music in the United States by a 1923 tune called The Charleston by composer/pianist James P. Johnson which originated in the...
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West Coast Swing (WCS) is a partner dance derived from Lindy Hop. It is characterised by a distinctive elastic look that results from its basic extension-compression technique of partner connection, and is danced primarily in a slotted area on the...
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| Balboa |
Balboa today is commonly used as a general term for dances that come from southern California during the 1920s and 1930s, which makes the history very obscure. Most of the original Balboa dancers have passed and many of the swing dancers that...
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Salsa is a syncretic dance genre created by Spanish-speaking people from the Caribbean. Salsa dancing mixes African and European dance influences through the music and dance fusions that are the roots of Salsa: essentially Cuban Son, but also with...
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Tango is a musical genre and its associated dance forms that originated in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay, and spread to the rest of the world soon after.
Early tango was known as tango criollo, or simply tango. Today, there are...
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| Belly dance |
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Belly dance is a Western term for traditional Arab dance styles, especially raqs sharqi. It is sometimes called "Middle Eastern Dance" or "Arabic Dance" in the United States, or by the Turkish term çiftetelli. Belly dance is a misnomer as all parts...
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| Céilidh |
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Ceilidh |
A céilidh (Irish pronunciation: [ˈceːlʲiː], Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈcʰeːli], English pronunciation: /ˈkeɪli/) (in modern usage) is a traditional Gaelic social dance event originating in Ireland and Scotland, but now common throughout the...
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| Martha Graham |
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Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American dancer and choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance, whose influence on dance can be compared to the influence Stravinsky had on music, Picasso had on the...
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| Frankie Manning |
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Frank Manning |
Frankie Manning (May 26, 1914 – April 27, 2009) was an American dancer, instructor and choreographer. Manning is considered one of the founding fathers of the Lindy Hop.
Manning was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1914. He moved to Harlem at the...
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| Blues dance | Blues |
Blues dancing is a modern term used to describe a family of historical dances that developed alongside and danced to blues music, or the contemporary dances that are danced in that aesthetic. Amateur Dancer carried an article titled "Blues and...
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| Argentine Tango |
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Argentine tango is a social dance and a musical genre that originated in Argentina and Uruguay. In the US, it is commonly confused with ballroom tango, though this is a later derivation.
Argentine tango consists of a variety of styles that developed...
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| Melbourne Shuffle |
The Melbourne shuffle is a style of dance. The Melbourne shuffle originated in the late 1980s in the Melbourne underground scene. The basic movements in the dance are a fast heel-and-toe action with a style suitable for various types of electronic...
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hip-hop |
Hip hop as a cultural movement manifest in B-boying (breakdancing), graffiti writing, DJing and MCeeing is an artistic commitment to seize freedom from oppressive social conditions. This artistic commitment inherent in hip hop culture expresses a...
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| ODC/Dance | Oberlin Dance Company |
ODC/Dance (Oberlin Dance Company) is a contemporary dance company founded in 1971 by artistic director Brenda Way. ODC relocated to San Francisco in 1976 and was the first dance company in America to build its own home facility in 1979 from which it...
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| Bryan Culbertson |
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The Gaskell Ball is a bimonthly Victorian-styled ball held by Ye Gaskell Occasional Dance Society in Oakland, California, USA, popular among re-creationists and vintage dance enthusiasts. The Ball came to be over 25 years ago, as an offshoot of a...
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| Barak Michener |
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| Marielle Hsu |
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| 9:20 Special | ||||
| Lindy on Sproul | ||||
| Friday Night Blues | Blues | |||
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| Verdi Club | ||||
| Midtown Stomp | ||||
| Swing Central | ||||
| 920 Special | ||||
| Studio Gracia | ||||
| Jaime Ohm | J'aime Ohm |
Undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon University
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| San Francisco Hip Hop DanceFest | ||||
| Dancers Symposium | ||||
| Bay Area National Dance Week | ||||
| Lunar Gala | ||||
| Tribal Throwdown | ||||
| Acrosports | ||||
| Dance Mission | ||||
| Carnegie Mellon University | ||||
| Erica Olsen Firment |
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Erica Linden |
If you're not a librarian, a website called Librarian Avengers might not sound wildly appealing, but don't be fooled. Flint, Michigan's Erica Olsen created the site in 1997 and it's filled with her humor and insight into everything from...
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