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The Czardas Dance

The Question: I am trying to identify the Russian dance where the "dancers" have their arms crossed in front of them while they bouncing up and down and…

Dance With Me

Director: Randa Haines Writer: Daryl Matthews Columbia; PG; 126 minutes Release: 8/98 Cast: Vanessa L. Williams, Chayanne, Kris Kristofferson and Joan Plowright Puerto…

Brewer's: Dance

The Spanish danza was a grave and stately court dance. Those of the seventeenth century were called the Turdion, Pabana, Madama Orleans, Piedelgiba'o, El Rey Don Alonzo, and El Caballero.…

Brewer's: Dances

(National Dances): Bohemian: the redowa. English: the hornpipe and lancers. French: the contredanse (country dance), cotillon, and quadrille. German: the gallopade and waltz. Irish: the…

Dancing at Lughnasa

Director:Pat O'ConnorWriter:Frank McGuinnessSony Pictures Classics; PG; 94 minutesRelease:11/98Cast:Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Sophie Thompson, Catherine McCormack, Kathy Burke, Brid…

dance

(Encyclopedia) 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…

morris dance

(Encyclopedia) morris dance or morrice dance, rustic dance of the north of England that had its origin in country festivals, such as those of May Day and Whitsunday. Reference to it in English…

Halprin, Anna

(Encyclopedia) Halprin, Anna, 1920-2021, b. Wilmette, Il., as Ann Dorothy Schuman. She began studying dance as a child, and then briefly attended the…

folk dance

(Encyclopedia) folk dance, primitive, tribal, or ethnic form of the dance, sometimes the survival of some ancient ceremony or festival. The term is used also to include characteristic national dances…

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival

(Encyclopedia) Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, summer dance concert series held annually near Lee, Mass., in the Berkshires. The site, originally an 18th-century farm, was purchased by the American…