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

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

He joined the American Ballet Theatre in 1988 and in 2000 joined Twyla Tharp Dance.

* Dance Band on the Titanic, Del Rey Books, July, 1988 ( short stories )

" Dance Research Journal 20. 1 ( 1988 ): 29 – 36.

* Netherlands Dance Theater ( The Hague, 1988 )

The song, " What's on Your Mind ( Pure Energy )" ( released in 1988 ), reached No. 3 on the US Pop charts, and No. 1 on Dance charts.

In 1988, Front by Front was released, and in December of that same year, " Headhunter " ( with a video by Anton Corbijn ), became the band's first club hit, reaching # 13 on the US Billboard Dance / Club Play Songs chart.

* Parker, Derek ( 1988 ) " Nijinsky: God of the Dance "

In 1988, he released the single " They Dance Alone " which chronicled the plight of the mothers, wives and daughters of the " disappeared ", the political opponents of the regime killed by the Pinochet Government in Chile.

In 1988, West Coast Swing was pronounced the Official State Dance of California.

Lead track " Dogshit " was released as a single in 1988 under the name " Censor " ( due to censorship issues, radio stations urged the band to change its name for radio airplay ), while the single " Testure " ( which denounced the vivisection of animals for research purposes ) reached No. 19 on Billboards Hot Dance Music / Club Play chart in 1989.

* Lovers Rock Inna Dance Hall ( 1988, Youth Promotion )

In 1988, Slade released a cover of the Chris Montez song " Let's Dance "; a re-mix of the track from Crackers-The Christmas Party Album.

First held in 1988, the Karmiel Dance Festival is the largest celebration of dance in Israel, featuring three or four days and nights of dancing, with 5, 000 or more dancers and a quarter of a million spectators in the capital of Galilee.

Wilde's Salome has often been made into a film, notably a 1923 silent film, Salome, starring Alla Nazimova in the title role and a 1988 Ken Russell play-within-a-film treatment, Salome's Last Dance, which also includes Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas as characters.

She has written for film ( notably Teach Me to Dance, NFB, 1978 ) and for stage: 1985, Edmonton, Workshop West, 1982 ; No Kidding, Vancouver, Green Thumb, 1988 ; After the Fall: The Erotic Life of the Left, Edmonton, Catalyst " Write on the Edge " cabaret, 1992 ; File # 3168, Edmonton, Catalyst, 1993.

In 1988, he successfully petitioned the creation of National Tap Dance Day, which is now celebrated in 40 cities in the United States.

*" What's on Your Mind ( Pure Energy )" ( 1988 ) No. 3 Pop, No. 1 Dance

*" Walking Away " ( 1988 ) No. 9 Pop, No. 5 Dance

The city is known for the Karmiel Dance Festival, a yearly event since 1988.

Caldecott Medal, 1989, for the book Song and Dance Man, illustrated by Stephen Gammell, Knopf, 1988

* Song & Dance Man ( 1988 )

The first Evil Angel film was Dance Fire, filmed in 1988 by Stagliano, starring himself, Trinity Loren, Brandy Alexandre and others.

Dance of Demons ( New Infinities, 1988 ).

Other successful songs were " Dance Little Jean " ( 1983 ); " I Love Only You " ( 1984 ); " High Horse " ( 1985 ); " Home Again in My Heart ," " Partners, Brothers and Friends " and " Stand a Little Rain " ( 1986 ); " Fire in the Sky ," " Baby's Got a Hold on Me " and " Oh What a Love " ( 1987 ); " Workin ' Man ( Nowhere to Go )" and " I've Been Lookin '" ( 1988 ); and " Down That Road Tonight " and " When it's Gone " ( 1989 ).

His alma mater, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, merged with Imperial College London in 1988.

During 1988, the Liberals formally merged with the SDP to form the Liberal Democrats, though a small splinter Liberal Party was formed in 1989 by former members opposed to the merger.

In 1988 the Liberals and Social Democrats merged to create what came to be called the Liberal Democrats.

After a ballot of members and the passing of a motion at the 1987 Portsmouth conference, the party merged with the Liberal Party in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats, although a minority left to form a continuing SDP led by David Owen.

Nevertheless, trade between the two countries has continued to expand in both absolute and relative terms for the last two hundred years, but especially following the 1988 FTA and the subsequent signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) in 1994 which has since further merged the two economies.

Between 1988 and 2006, the Northern and Eastern provinces were temporarily merged to form the North-East Province.

In 1988, the British Racketball Association merged with the English Squash Rackets Association.

It was merged with CERGA in 1988 to form the Observatoire de la Côte d ' Azur.

The first divisions to go were MPI and Rigidyne ; in September 1988, CDC merged the two divisions into the umbrella subsidiary of Imprimis Technology, with the intent to sell the entire operation.

The Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway was foreclosed in 1891 and was taken over by Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, which shut down in 1980 and reorganized as Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad, merged in 1988 with Missouri Pacific Railroad, and finally merged in 1997 with Union Pacific Railroad.

The Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway was foreclosed in 1891 and was taken over by Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, which shut down in 1980 and reorganized as Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad, merged in 1988 with Missouri Pacific Railroad, and finally merged in 1997 with Union Pacific Railroad.

The Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway was foreclosed in 1891 and taken over by Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, which shut down in 1980 and reorganized as Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad, merged in 1988 with Missouri Pacific Railroad, merged in 1997 with Union Pacific Railroad.

The Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway was foreclosed in 1891 and was taken over by Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, which shut down in 1980 and reorganized as Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad, merged in 1988 with Missouri Pacific Railroad, and finally merged in 1997 with Union Pacific Railroad.

The Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway was foreclosed in 1891 and was taken over by Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, which shut down in 1980 and reorganized as Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad, merged in 1988 with Missouri Pacific Railroad, merged in 1997 with Union Pacific Railroad.

The Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway was foreclosed in 1891 and was taken over by Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, which shut down in 1980 and reorganized as Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad, merged in 1988 with Missouri Pacific Railroad, and finally merged in 1997 with Union Pacific Railroad.

Up until late 1988, Route 33 westbound ran underneath US 130, then merged with 130's southbound lanes.

It foreclosed in 1891 and was taken over by Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, which shut down in 1980 and reorganized as Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad, merged in 1988 with Missouri Pacific Railroad, merged in 1997 with Union Pacific Railroad.