The Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company, with music and dances that depict the many facets of Filipino culture, opens its 60-city U.S. tour in San Francisco ( through Sept. 24 ) then, via one-night stands, moves on to Los Angeles ( Sept. 29 thru Oct. 1 ).

The waltz with its modern hold took root in England in about 1812 ; in 1819 Carl Maria von Weber wrote Invitation to the Dance, which marked the adoption of the waltz form into the sphere of absolute music.

:* 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.

:* A video of the Brattleboro Dawn Dance in Vermont, Susan Kevra calling-note the differences in dance and music styles between this northeastern dance and the southeastern one linked below

Dance is a type of art that generally involves movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, performed in many different cultures and used as a form of expression, social interaction and exercise or presented in a spiritual or performance setting.

Dance presented with music may or may not be performed in time to the music depending on the style of dance.

Dance performed without music is said to be danced to its own rhythm.

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Dance Dance Revolution, abbreviated DDR, and previously known as Dancing Stage in Europe and Australasia, is a music video game series produced by Konami.

Successfully hitting the arrows in time with the music fills the " Dance Gauge ", or life bar, while failure to do so drains it.

* Bay Area Country Dance Society promotes, preserves, and teaches traditional English and American music and dance in the San Francisco Bay area.

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 ).

" Not Counting You " reached number 2, and then " The Dance " put him at number-one again ; this song's theme of people dying while doing something they believe in resonated strongly and, together with a popular music video, directed by John Lloyd Miller, gave Brooks his first push towards a broader audience.

On September 19, 2005, Gaynor was honored twice when she and her music were inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame.

Category: Dance forms in classical music

Dance music, often improvised around familiar tropes, was the largest purely instrumental genre.

Category: Dance music

Dance music is a niche, and so-called " rhythmic pop " stations have had a fierce but not always commercially sustainable following.

Dance music radio focuses on live DJ sets and hit singles from genres of techno, house, electro, drum and bass, UK garage and big beat.

* Nu-Disco, a Dance music genre.

In January 2008, Abdul returned to the music charts for the first time in nearly 13 years with the single " Dance Like There's No Tomorrow ," the first track on the album Randy Jackson's Music Club Vol 1.

So, for that matter, are the newer dances -- the `` Kalmuk Dance '' with its animal movements, that genial juggling act by Sergei Tsvetkov called `` The Platter '', the rousing and beautiful betrothal celebration called `` Summer '', `` The Three Shepherds '' of Azerbaijan hopping up on their staffs, and, of course, the trenchant `` Rock 'n' Roll ''.

These styles were developed in England, and are now regulated by the World Dance Council ( WDC ).

Dance categories by number of interacting dancers are mainly solo dance, partner dance and group dance.

Dance categories are not mutually exclusive.

Whereas several figures common to English Country Dance, e. g. arming and the straight hey, are found in the traditional dances and display dances such as morris, ECD's origins rest among the gentry, first at court, then spreading to bourgeois-London, finally moving into country manors around England.

It can be said that there is no right or wrong way to dance it ; however, certain styles of the dance are considered correct " form " within the technical elements documented and governed by the National Dance Council of America.

The Eurovision Network also organises the Eurovision Dance Contest, the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, the Eurovision Young Dancers competition, and other competitions for young musicians and screenwriters, which are modelled along similar lines.

Dance lifts are differentiated by the skating involved.

Dance floors and lighting effects are also becoming common sights in karaoke bars.

Two dances specifically named in the Danish ballads which appear to be line dances of this type are The Beggar Dance, and The Lucky Dance which may have been a dance for women.

Two jump pilots with obsolete navigational brain implants and a number of characters ( the quaddies, Betan hermaphrodites, Taura, Guppy, even to some extent the clones rescued in Mirror Dance ) are psychologically stranded by the termination of the program for which they were designed.

Most notable of the professional companies are Nashville Children's Theatre, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, the Nashville Shakespeare Festival, the Dance Theatre of Tennessee and the Tennessee Women's Theater Project.

Dance parties are gatherings in bars or community centers where the guests dance to house music, techno music, or disco.

Other notable theatres are the Stockholm City Theatre, the Peoples Opera ( Folkoperan ), the Modern Theatre of Dance ( Moderna dansteatern ), the China Theatre, the Göta Lejon Theatre, the Mosebacke Theatre, and the Oscar Theatre.

Examples of externally produced first-party games are the Gears of War series, Uncharted series, and the Dance Central series.

At the dance, after introductions, the teenagers begin to dance ; soon a challenge dance is called (" Dance at the Gym "), during which Tony and Maria ( who aren't taking part in the challenge dance ) see each other across the room and are drawn to each other.

The annotations are followed by an epilogue in comics format, The Dance of the Gull-Catchers, in which Moore and Campbell expand on the various theories of the Ripper crimes and the likelihood — or rather, the near-impossibility — of the true identity of the culprit ever being identified.

Square dances such as “ Newcastle ”, one of those original eight, are still very popular today, and countless new dances have been written in the Playford style, or English Country Dance ( ECD ) style as it is known in America.

* Folk Dance / Barn dance: At English folk or country dances a very wide range of dances is performed, many of which are square dances: Playford style dances ; dances derived from the quadrille, for example “ La Russe ” published by H. D.

Among the most important are Poznań's Polish Theatre of Dance, founded by Conrad Drzewiecki and currently led by Ewa Wycichowska, and Wrocław's " Pantomima ", founded by Henryk Tomaszewski ( 1919 – 2001 ).

If the resources are very close to the hive, they may also exhibit a less specific dance commonly known as the " Round Dance ".

The Britannia Coconut Dancers are an English Country Dance | English folk dance troupe based in Bacup.

Usually they are derivative of Lisa, such as Lisa Bella in " Last Tap Dance in Springfield " ( season 11, 2000 ) and Lisa, Jr. in " Missionary: Impossible ".