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.

Although the dance didn't originate in Poland, the Oxford Etymological Dictionary claims its name is derived from the Czech polka meaning " Polish woman " ( feminine form corresponding to polák, a Pole ).

It should not be confused with the polska, a Swedish dance with Polish roots ( cf.

Polka dancing enjoyed a resurgence in popularity after World War II, when many Polish refugees moved to the US, adopting this Bohemian style as a cultural dance.

Polish dance music, especially the mazurka and polonaise, were popularized by Frederick Chopin, and they soon spread across Europe and elsewhere.

The polonaise comes from the French word for Polish to identify its origin among the Polish aristocracy, who had adapted the dance from a slower walking dance called chodzony.

The White Eagle Club is a thriving Polish community centre, and its traditional Saturday night dance (" zabawa ") draws people from across London.

* Polonaise-3 / 4-beat slow dance of Polish origin

The mazurka ( in Polish, mazurek ) is a Polish folk dance in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo, and with accent on the second or third beat.

The Polish dance entered the British Isles in the 1840s, but is not widely played outside of Donegal.

The polonaise () is a slow dance of Polish origin, in 3 / 4 time.

Polonaise is always a first dance at a studniówka (" hundred-days "), the Polish equivalent of the senior prom that occurs approximately 100 days before exams.

Polonaise is a Polish folk dance and is one of the five national dances of Poland.

Jędker abandoned the Polish rap scene to make dance music with Robert M as Monopol ( for which he is mocked and disrespected by the present Polish rap scene and most of the listeners ) and DJ Deszczu Strugi is an owner of Otra Barwa Studio.

The prom begins with students ' performance of polonaise, a traditional Polish dance.

Zouk means " party " or " festival " in the local Antillean Creole of French, although the word originally referred to, and is still used to refer to, a popular dance, based on the Polish dance, the mazurka, that was introduced to the French Caribbean in the 19th Century.

Mazurka is a Polish folk dance in triple meter.

Klezmer music had always been a fusion of old and new world traditions, Polish dance tunes and jazz, Jewish tradition and Afro-American contemporary popular music.

The dance was of Haitian origin.

Folk dances of British origin include the square dance, descended from the quadrille, combined with the American innovation of a caller instructing the dancers.

Jongo, a Brazilian dance of African origin, c. 1822

though the dance was " almost certainly of Italian origin " ( Brown 2001 ).

Kagura is the ancient Shinto ritual dance of shamanic origin.

Czech cultural historian and ethnographer Čeněk Zíbrt, who wrote in detail about the origin of the dance, in his book, Jak se kdy v Čechách tancovalo cites an opinion of František Doucha ( 1840, Květy, p. 400 ) that " polka " was supposed to mean " tanec na polo " ( n. b. the absence of diacritics ), i. e., " a dance in half ", both referring to the half-tempo 2 / 4 and the half-jump step of the dance.

While the polka is Bohemian in origin, most dance music composers in Vienna ( the capital of the vast Habsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was the cultural centre for music from all over the empire ) composed polkas and included the dance in their repertoire at some point of their career.

A minuet, also spelled menuet, is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually in 3 / 4 time.

However, although the Bible records Salome's dance, the first mention of her removing seven veils occurs in Oscar Wilde's play of ' Salome ', in 1893: which some have claimed as the origin of modern striptease.

The French word in turn has its origin in Italian balletto, a diminutive of ballo ( dance ) which comes from Latin ballo, ballare, meaning " to dance ", which in turn comes from the Greek " βαλλίζω " ( ballizo ), " to dance, to jump about ".

Some believe the origin of this dance can be traced back to the influx of Cornish miners to northern England, and the black face relates to the dirty blackened faces associated with mining.

The child of Tamanuiterā and Hineraumati, Tane-rore, is credited with the origin of dance.

* Cuban Rumba, percussion, song and dance styles that owe their origin to African slaves in Cuba.

* Cha-cha-cha ( dance ), the name of a dance of Cuban origin

A more likely explanation behind the origin of the character is that Rice had observed and absorbed African American traditional song and dance over many years.

Folk dances of British origin include the square dance, descended from the quadrille, combined with the American innovation of a caller instructing the dancers.

Historically, Casino traces its origin as a partner dance from Cuban Son dancing, and its rhythmic body motions from Afro-Cuban Rumba heritage.

Styne established his own dance band, which brought him to the notice of Hollywood, where he was championed by Frank Sinatra and where he began a collaboration with lyricist Sammy Cahn, with whom he wrote many songs for the movies, including " It's Been a Long, Long Time " (# 1 for 3 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1945 ), " Five Minutes More ," and the Oscar-winning " Three Coins in the Fountain ".

A schleifer is a German late-medieval dance form in 3 / 4 metre.

A feature of Romanian Television after 2000 was the boom of specialized channels-such as soap opera and telenovela channels ( Acasă TV, Romantica, Antena 4-Euforia lifestyle TV ), sport channels ( such as Sport. ro and Telesport ), talk channels ( Antena 2 ) news channels ( Realitatea TV, Antena 3 and N24 ), different movie genres or documentary types, and even specializing on different musical styles ( UTV Romania and MTV being geared toward club, dance and hip-hop music, whereas Favorit TV and Etno TV towards folklore, and Taraf TV towards manele ).

One dance for couples, a form of the galliard called lavolta, involved a rather intimate hold between the man and woman, with the woman being lifted into the air while the couple made a 3 / 4 turn.

The Ländler, also known as the Schleifer, a country dance in 3 / 4 time, was popular in Bohemia, Austria, and Bavaria, and spread from the countryside to the suburbs of the city.

The younger Strauss would sometimes break up the one-two-three of the melody with a one-two pattern in the accompaniment along with other rhythms, maintaining the 3 / 4 time while causing the dancers to dance a two-step waltz.

** A bomb being constructed by members of the Weathermen and meant to be planted at a military dance in New Jersey, explodes, killing 3 members of the organization.

Consider " Oh that I had a Thousand Voices " (" O daß ich tausend Zungen hätte ") by German, Johann Mentzer Verse 2: " Ye forest leaves so green and tender, that dance for joy in summer air …" or " O Day Full of Grace " (" Den signede Dag ") by Dane, Nikolai Grundtvig verse 3: " Yea were every tree endowed with speech and every leaflet singing …".

Like the passepied, a Baroque dance movement, this variation is in 3 / 8 time with a preponderance of quaver rhythms.

File: Fronton Guimet 240907 3. jpg | Apsaras dance taken from the 12th century Bayon temple at Angkor in Cambodia.

In 1 of his 4 schemes, in his 2-volume Kitab al-musiki al-kabir ( Big Music Book, or Big Book of Music ) he identified 5 classes, in order of ranking, as follows: the human voice, the bowed strings ( the rebab ) and winds, plucked strings, percussion, and dance, the 1st 3 pointed out as having continuous tone.

Patti Rutland Jazz operates as a non-profit 501 ( c )( 3 ) organization whose core mission is to offer its dancers to the Wiregrass Region to assist under-served youths with free dance classes.

Each July 3, Towanda has a spaghetti supper in the evening and a street dance at night.

Produced by MeLu Films, it premiered on September 3, 2010 at the Summit Theater, marking the city's first movie premiere, and the 2010 Celebrate Art Month, which included art exhibits, jazz, dance and opera performances, a film festival, and the public release of Francisco Rivadeneira's book, Los Amos del Planeta, Tomo II.

Johann Strauss II ( October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899 ), also known as Johann Baptist Strauss or Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, or the Son (), was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas.

The dance scene during the Halloween party is a parody of the dance scene in A Charlie Brown Christmas right down to Kang and Kodos in a non-speaking cameo as the twins 3 and 4.

* At bar 222, the " witches ' round dance " motif is stated again and again in the strings, to be interrupted by 3 syncopated, dotted crotchets in the brass.

* October 19 – Frankie Laine and Ruthie Smith set the all-time dance marathon record of 3, 501 hours ( 145 days ) at the Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey

The dance that is popularly known as the waltz is actually the English or slow waltz, danced at approximately 90 beats per minute with 3 beats to the bar ( the international standard of 30 measures per minute ), while the Viennese Waltz is danced at about 180 beats ( 58-60 measures ) a minute.

* Charlene Tilton appears in Season 3 Episode 70 as Joanie's cheerleading rival, prompting a " dance off ".

* Freylekhs ( also Bulgar, bulgarish — literally " Bulgarian ", volekhl / vulekhl — literally " Wallachian ", or " Romanian ") is a ( 3 + 3 + 2 = 8 )/ 8 circle dance, usually in the Ahava Rabboh melodic mode.

* Hora or zhok is a Romanian-style dance in a hobbling 3 / 8 time with beats on 1 and 3, and is even more embellished.