With shout and slow dance, with tears and song, with scream and contortion, the corner group was beset by hysteria and shivering, wailing, shouting, possession of something that seemed like an alien and outside force.

A crowd of 1,400 is expected for the ceremonies, which will be followed by the show in which the writers will lampoon baseball personalities in skit, dance and song.

The Polish song and dance company called Mazowsze, after the region of Poland, where it has its headquarters, opened a three-week engagement at the City Center last night.

* Terpsichore ( the ' who delights in dance '): muse of choral song and dance

In 2010, American dance recording artist Kelis released a song called " Acapella " as the first single from her album Flesh Tone.

Kusumi Koharu performed a song and dance titled " Balalaika " which has also been flawlessly mirrored in the Hatsune Miku phenomenon.

" The Big Apple " was a popular song and dance in the 1930s.

:* Country Dance and Song Society ( CDSS ) preserves a variety of Anglo-American folk traditions in North America, including folk music, folk song, English country dance, contra dance and morris dance.

They performed the song " Too Hot ta Trot " during the dance contest ; their songs " Brick House " and " Easy " were also played during the movie.

Ballet developed first in Italy and then in France from lavish court spectacles that combined music, drama, poetry, song, costumes and dance.

Actually, there are varying degrees of " musicality "; Quran chanting and Adhan is not considered music, but classical improvised song, classical instrumental metric composition, and popular dance music are.

) In a song from the late Middle Ages about Olaf Liljekrans, the elven queen invites him to dance.

The terms folk music, folk song, and folk dance are comparatively recent expressions.

But the term does not cover a song, dance, or tune that has been taken over ready-made and remains unchanged.

Contemporaneously with Child came the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, and later and more significantly Cecil Sharp who worked in the early 20th century to preserve a great body of English rural traditional song, music and dance, under the aegis of what became and remains the English Folk Dance and Song Society ( EFDSS ).

In France, avant-garde director René Clair made surreal use of song and dance in comedies like Under the Roofs of Paris ( 1930 ) and Le Million ( 1931 ).

Flamenco () is a genre of Spanish music, song, and dance from Andalusia, in southern Spain, that includes cante ( singing ), toque ( guitar playing ), baile ( dance ) and palmas ( handclaps ).

" Singin ' in the Rain featured Kelly's celebrated and much imitated solo dance routine to the title song, along with the " Moses Supposes " routine with Donald O ' Connor and the " Broadway Melody " finale with Cyd Charisse.

It was a measure of his powers of persuasion that he managed to coax the 77-year-old Astaire – who had insisted that his contract rule out any dancing, having long since retired – into performing a series of song and dance duets, evoking a powerful nostalgia for the glory days of the American musical film.

Generally speaking, he tended to use tap and other popular dance idioms to express joy and exuberance – as in the title song from Singin ' in the Rain or " I Got Rhythm " from An American in Paris, whereas pensive or romantic feelings were more often expressed via ballet or modern dance, as in " Heather on the Hill " from Brigadoon or " Our Love Is Here to Stay " from An American in Paris.

`` Golly '', Rod exclaimed to Harmony as he dutifully stood by her side among the ringed spectators, `` don't that fiddle make you wish the Bible didn't say us Baptists can't dance ''??

That night he reeled out of Ma Murphy's dance hall and proceeded to disturb the peace by shooting off his revolver.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

The only factors that are personally set by the choreographer are the movements themselves, the number of the dancers, and the approximate total duration of the dance.

The singular uncompromising force of their revolt against the cult of restraint is illustrated by their refusal to dance in a public place.

Sometimes they get their initial experience in church haflis, conducted by Lebanese and Syrians in the U.S., where they dance with just as few veils across their bodies as in nightclubs.

This is not unlike the order received by the sergeant of an army motor pool: `` Four trucks to Fort Mason gym, 7:30 tonight, for hauling girls to dance.

There is no use at all in trying to follow it dance by dance and title by title, for it has a kind of nonstop format, and moves along in an admirable continuity that demands no pauses for identification.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

However, this division into two groups is considered by some modern scholars to be too simplistic and often it is practically impossible to know whether a lyric composition was sung or recited, or whether or not it was accompanied by musical instruments and dance.

She was punished by the goddess for not having performed a ritual dance.

In historical times Greek maidens of Ephesus performed an annual circular dance with weapons and shields that had been established by Hippolyta and her Amazons.

Resonator guitars were originally designed to be louder than conventional acoustic guitars, which were overwhelmed by horns and percussion instruments in dance orchestras.

Torvald enters and tries to retrieve his mail but Nora distracts him by begging him to help her with the dance she has been rehearsing for the costume party, feigning anxiety about performing.

During this time, he was employed and mentored by fellow racketeer Frankie Yale, a bartender in a Coney Island dance hall and saloon called the Harvard Inn.

In 1650 the Minuet, originally a peasant dance of Poitou, was introduced into Paris and set to music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and danced by the King Louis XIV in public, and would continue to dominate ballroom from that time until the close of the 18th century.

Its signature style is electronic dance music, featuring cut up samples of hip hop, breaks, jazz, spoken word and various other types of music, as well as video and multimedia.

By 1968, the number of dance clubs started to decline ; most American clubs either closed or were transformed into clubs featuring live bands.

Hollywood films, such as Hellzapoppin ' and A Day at the Races began featuring the Lindy Hop in dance sequences.

It was a step up from previous shows, featuring more elaborate dance numbers and sets.

OED also claims that the theory is that it comes from the Czech word půlka (" half "), referring to the short half-steps featuring in the dance, is now " discredited ".

In ancient Rome, dance featuring stripping was part of the entertainments ( ludi ) at the Floralia, an April festival in honor of the goddess Flora.

Attended by approximately 1, 000 of the Bay Area's original " hippies ", this was San Francisco's first psychedelic rock performance, costumed dance and light show, featuring Jefferson Airplane, The Great Society and The Marbles.

The period between 1907 and 1910 marked a rapid acceleration in growth as Main Street blossomed with the construction of several new commercial buildings, Germania Hall ( a two-story building featuring a restaurant, grocery store, dance hall, and rooms to rent ), a shop / post office, and a livery stable.

The video ’ s storyline and dance sequences are faithfully recreated, beginning outside the historic Kentucky Theatre and featuring hundreds of zombies who attend rehearsals at nearby Mecca Live Studio in the weeks leading up to the parade.

There he appeared in the marionette theaters and in the motley entertainments — featuring song, dance, audience participation, and acrobatics — that were calculated to draw a crowd while sidestepping the regulations that ensured the Théâtre-Français a monopoly on " regular " dramas in Paris.

A céilí is a social gathering featuring Irish music and dance.

* Vertigo – A dance party put on by the Engineering School Council ( EnCouncil ), featuring an innovative by computer-controlled modular LED illuminated dance floor built by students.

Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring music, comedy, song, dance, recitation or drama.

The group became the centerpiece of Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable, a multimedia performance featuring music, light, film and dance.

He made a series of four highly rated Emmy Award-winning musical specials for television in 1958, 1959, 1960, and 1968, each featuring Barrie Chase, with whom Astaire enjoyed an Indian summer of dance creativity.

Later that year, Basie appeared on a television special with Fred Astaire, featuring a dance solo to " Sweet Georgia Brown ", followed in January 1960 by Basie performing at one of the five John F. Kennedy Inaugural Balls.

While Ulala is distracted by a fake scoop, the headquarters are attacked and Space Michael is kidnapped by Purge and the Rhythm Rogues and has to be rescued by Ulala in a level featuring several of Michael's trademark dance moves.

That evening, the married couples on Welsh Hill held a New Year reception at Owen's Hall, featuring an " old time " hoop dance.

The town also holds an annual fair on Saturday in late September / early October featuring a dairy cow show, judging other animals including sheep and pigs, crafts show and the highlight is the parade on state Highway 58, the Homecoming game for the Ithaca Bulldogs and Homecoming dance that Saturday night.

* Saturday night street dance featuring local bands

* Stephen Colbert parodies Sábado Gigante on The Colbert Report occasionally with " Colberto Reporto Gigante " hosted by " Esteban Colberto " ( clearly Colbert wearing a white suit and a fake mustache ), and featuring " chicas " who dance around him while he " discusses " an issue — frequently immigration — with Colbert.

Modern swing dance bands active in the U. S. during the 1990s and 2000s include many contemporary jazz big bands, swing revival bands with a national presence such as Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers ( based in San Francisco ), and local / regional jazz bands that specialize in 1930s-1940s swing / Lindy dance music, such as The Swingout Big Band, White Heat Swing Orchestra, and Beantown Swing Orchestra ( Boston ), The Boilermaker Jazz Band ( Pittsburgh ), the Southside Aces ( Minneapolis ), Gordon Webster Septet ( New York ), Jonathan Stout and His Campus Five ( Los Angeles ) and The Jonathan Stout Orchestra featuring Hilary Alexander ( Los Angeles ), The Flat Cats ( Chicago ), The Gina Knight Orchestra ( Chicago and Joliet, IL ), the Solomon Douglas Swingtet and the Tom Cunningham Orchestra ( Washington, D. C .), Sonoran Swing ( Arizona ), and The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra ( Los Angeles ).

* July 7 – At David Sarnoff's request for an experiment of RCA's electronic television technology, NBC's first attempt at actual programming is a 30-minute variety show featuring speeches, dance ensembles, monologues, vocal numbers, and film clips.