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Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan , 1878-1927, American dancer, b. San Francisco. She had little success in the United States when she first created dances based on Greek classical art. But in Budapest (1903), Berlin (1904), and later in London and New York City (1908), she triumphed. An innovator, pioneer, and... Read more |
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Ballet Folklorico de Mexico
Ballet Folklórico de México Mexico's national dance company. It was founded in 1952 by the dancer, choreographer, and teacher Amalia Hernández. Sponsored by the Mexican government, it is headquartered at the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City and regularly tours... Read more |
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dance
dance [Old High Ger. danson =to drag, stretch], the art of precise, expressive, and graceful human movement, traditionally, but not necessarily, performed in accord with musical accompaniment. Dancing developed as a natural expression of united feeling and action. The Origins of Dance The... Read more |
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dance language
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Lama dancing
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dancing
dancing. References to dancing in travellers' accounts of rural life in Ireland date from the 16th century, but the development of step dancing as a formal art does not appear to have taken place before the last quarter of the 18th century. Given that the preponderance of instrumental melody which... Read more |
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Indian dance
DANCE, INDIAN DANCE, INDIAN. North American Indian Dance is not a single entity—the several hundred indigenous nations of the United States and Canada each have their own distinct traditions. The Apache Crown Dance, Tewa Buffalo Dance, Kiowa Black Leg Society dances, and Yupik Bladder Feast... Read more |
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Charleston (dance)
charleston social dance of the United States popular in the mid-1920s. The charleston is characterized by outward heel kicks combined with an up-and-down movement achieved by bending and straightening the knees in time to the syncopated 4/4 rhythm of ragtime jazz . The steps are thought to have... Read more |
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Dance of Death
Dance of Death or danse macabre , originally a 14th-century morality poem. The poem was a dialogue between Death and representatives of all classes from the Pope down. By the 15th cent., pictorial representation with verses illustrating the pictures became common. The dance, in which Death as a... Read more |
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Rudolf von Laban
Rudolf von Laban , 1879-1958, Slovakian dancer, choreographer, and dance theorist. After studying in Paris and performing in N Africa, Germany, and Austria, he founded (1910) a dance school in Munich; Mary Wigman was one of his early students. He founded schools bearing his name all over Europe... Read more |
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