" The Abbot " is one of the archetypes traditionally illustrated in scenes of Dance Macabre.

Inspired by the Black Death, The Dance of Death, an allegory on the universality of death, is a common painting motif in the late medieval period.

This change is effected by progressing the 1's down the set and progressing the 2's up ( also up the hall and down the hall ; see Contra Dance Form main article for full characterizations of the progression in the eight dance forms mentioned above ).

It is the parent company to Ameridance and Eastern Cheer and Dance Association.

NLCC Final Destination: Nation's Leading Cheer Companies is a multi brand company, partnered with other companies such as: Americheer / Ameridance, American Cheer & Dance Academy, Eastern Cheer & Dance Association, and Spirit Unlimited.

Chicago is home to several other modern and jazz dance troupes, such as the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

Behind the pavilion's stage is the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, an indoor venue for mid-sized performing arts companies, including the Chicago Opera Theater and Music of the Baroque.

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 may also be regarded as a form of nonverbal communication between humans, and is also performed by other animals ( bee dance, patterns of behaviour such as a mating dance ).

Dance is still used for this purpose by many cultures from the Brazilian rainforest to the Kalahari Desert.

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

A popular example of this is the TV program So You Think You Can Dance.

Disco hit the television airwaves with Soul Train in 1971 hosted by Don Cornelius, then Marty Angelo's Disco Step-by-Step Television Show in 1975, Steve Marcus ' Disco Magic / Disco 77, Eddie Rivera's Soap Factory and Merv Griffin's Dance Fever, hosted by Deney Terrio, who is credited with teaching actor John Travolta to dance for his upcoming role in the hit movie Saturday Night Fever.

Dance is a type of:

She is also working on a dance-oriented album, Dance with Dolly, which she hopes to release in 2010.

Dance of Death, also variously called Danse Macabre ( French ), Danza de la Muerte ( Spanish ), Dansa de la Mort ( Catalan ), Danza Macabra ( Italian ), Dança da Morte ( Portuguese ), Totentanz ( German ), Dodendans ( Dutch ), Surmatants ( Estonian ), is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all.

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

Introduced in Japan in 1998 as part of the Bemani series, and released in North America and Europe in 1999, Dance Dance Revolution is the pioneering series of the rhythm and dance genre in video games.

If the Dance Gauge is fully depleted during gameplay, the player fails the song, usually resulting in a game over.

Not only one-player mode, Dance Dance Revolution provides two-player mode ( Versus Mode ) and Double Mode, which is played by one player but using two pads.

Dance can be participatory, social or performed for an audience.

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

Dance performed by attractive women wearing nine-yard saris.

* The earliest date on which the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance is performed

From 1971 to 1988, Twyla Tharp Dance performed original works around the world.

Tharp Dance company performed Tharp's choreography around the world.

*" The Dance of the Sea ", an " underwater " dance performed by Buster Keaton

* 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.

Historian Michael Cannon claims that " In September 1855 she performed her erotic Spider Dance at the Theatre Royal in Melbourne, raising her skirts so high that the audience could see she wore no underclothing at all " ( actually a salacious and unfounded rumour ).

* Nijinsky-The Miraculous God of Dance ( 2011 ), Sagiri Seina performed the title role in the Takarazuka Revue production in Japan

A plaque was erected on the Dance Hall in Greenwich, London where the band performed their first gig.

Sheen also developed an ongoing relationship with Wright State University, where he performed Love Letters as a benefit for scholarships in the Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures, and hosted a trip of donors to the set of The West Wing with the department's chair, W. Stuart McDowell, in September 2001.

Brian Wilson and his bandmates, following a set by Ike and Tina Turner, performed their first major live show at The Ritchie Valens Memorial Dance on New Year's Eve, 1961.

The K ' iche ' performed the Great Dance of Tohil in honour of the deity in the month of Tz ' ikin Q ' ij, prior to the maize harvest ( which takes place in November ).

The complete score, lasting over 80 minutes, is Nielsen's longest work apart from his operas but is now often performed as the shorter orchestral suite consisting of the Oriental March, Hindu Dance and Negro Dance.

He has toured on the " Winter Dance Party " tour with Buddy Holly impersonator John Mueller on some of the stages where his father performed.

Anderson's Homeland Tour performed at several locations across the United States as well, such as at the Ferst Center for the Arts, Atlanta, Georgia ; The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, New York ; and Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois, co-presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

She performed " Only an Expert " on July 15, 2010 on the Late Show with David Letterman, and her song " Gravity's Angel " was featured on the Fox TV show So You Think You Can Dance on the same day.

In it, Summer performed with Seal on a medley of the songs " Unbreak My Heart / Crazy / On the Radio ", before Summer closed the show with " Last Dance ".

She often performed at friends and family functions and was part of local dance troupe the Hazel Johnson School of Dance which rehearsed at St Alban's Church, Treboeth.

Dance teachers can respond to President Kennedy's request not only through their regular dance work, but also through the kind of basic gymnastic work that makes for strength and flexibility.

The Moiseyev Dance Company dropped in at Madison Square Garden last night for the first of four farewell performances before it brings its long American tour to a close.

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 ''.

It contains some of Chaplin's most famous gags, such as the Tramp eating his shoe and the " Dance of the Rolls ", and he later said it was the film he would most like to be remembered for.

:* Contra Dance Links-calendars and further links for the world

In 1789 George Dance invented an Ammonite Order, a variant of Ionic substituting volutes in the form of fossil ammonites for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London.

Traveling to Chicago, Atkins auditioned for Red Foley, who was leaving his star position on WLS-AM's National Barn Dance to join the Grand Ole Opry.

He did some studio work for RCA that year but had relocated to Knoxville again where he worked with Homer and Jethro on WNOX's new Saturday night radio show The Tennessee Barn Dance and the popular Midday Merry Go Round.

By the mid-1980s, her record sales were still relatively strong, with " Save the Last Dance for Me ", " Downtown ", " Tennessee Homesick Blues " ( all 1984 ); " Real Love " ( another duet with Kenny Rogers ), " Don't Call It Love " ( both 1985 ); and " Think About Love " ( 1986 ) all reaching the country-singles Top 10.

Dance Dance Revolution has been given much critical acclaim for its originality and stamina in the video game market.

Published instructions for English Country Dance first appear in John Playford's The English Dancing Master of 1651.

Although John Playford used the sub-title Plaine and easie Rules for the Dancing of Country Dances, with the Tune to each Dance, anyone who studies the book now will quickly discover that this is not true.

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.

* 1956 – Golden Bear at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival for Invitation to the Dance.

* 1958 – Dance Magazines annual TV Award for Dancing: A Man's Game from the Omnibus television series.

For a number of years Brood was in jail ( for dealing LSD ), or abroad, and had a number of short-term engagements ( with The Studs, the Flash & Dance Band, Vitesse ).

Peter Olshavsky's " House for the Dance of Death " provides a ' pataphysical variation on the house.