Modern ballroom dance has its roots early in the 20th century, when several different things happened more or less at the same time.

Category: Modern dance

It is especially important in Argentine Tango, Lindy Hop, Balboa, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Salsa, Contra dance, Modern Jive and other styles of partner dance.

In others e. g. Modern Jive moving closer together and further apart are fundamental to the dance, requiring flexion and extension of the arms, alternating compression and tension.

The relationship of music to dance serves as the basis for Eurhythmics, devised by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, which was influential to the development of Modern dance and modern ballet through artists such as Marie Rambert.

Since this time, a wide variety of dance styles have been developed ; see Modern dance.

Dance was often referred to as a plastic art during the Modern dance era.

* Modern Western square dance ( MWSD ), which is also called " Western square dance ", " contemporary Western square dance ", or " modern American square dance ".

Modern Western square dance evolved from the Western style of traditional square dance from about 1940 to 1960.

Modern Western square dance is sometimes presented in alternation with round dances.

Modern Western square dance is organized by square dance clubs.

Dance was often referred to as a plastic art during the Modern dance era.

Modern Western square dance ( also called Western square dance, contemporary Western square dance, modern American square dance or modern square dance ) is one of two American types of square dancing, along with traditional square dance.

Modern advertising was created with the innovative techniques introduced with tobacco advertising in the 1920s, most significantly with the campaigns of Edward Bernays, which is often considered the founder of modern, Madison Avenue advertising.

Modern musicians such as Little Richard, Mark Farner, Dan Peek, Donna Summer, Bob Dylan, Kerry Livgren, Dave Hope, Dave Mustaine, Nicko McBrain, Roger McGuinn, Ted Nugent, Kanye West, Carrie Underwood, Johnny Cash, Brian Welch, Keith Farley, Cliff Richard, Charlie Daniels, Randy Travis, Alice Cooper, Steven Tyler, Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon, and Lou Gramm were artists whose born again conversions had an impact on modern culture.

Modern tests show that opus caementicium had as much compressive strength as modern Portland-cement concrete ( ca.

Modern crossbow sights often use similar technology to modern firearm sights, such red dot sights and telescopic sights.

Constantine, son of Áed ( Medieval Gaelic: Constantín mac Áeda ; Modern Gaelic: Còiseam mac Aoidh, known in most modern regnal lists as Constantine II ; before 879 – 952 ) was an early King of Scotland, known then by the Gaelic name Alba.

( See The Modern Corporation and Private Property The well-known Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad decision began to influence policymaking and the modern corporate era had begun.

The language of Don Quixote, although still containing archaisms, is far more understandable to modern Spanish readers than is, for instance, the completely medieval Spanish of the Poema de mio Cid, a kind of Spanish that is as different from Cervantes's language as Middle English is from Modern English.

This conflation of case in Middle and Modern English has led most modern grammarians to discard the " accusative " and " dative " labels as obsolete, often using the term " objective " for oblique.

The Modern Deism web site includes one list of the unofficial tenets of modern deism.

Modern deists believe that they must continue what the classical deists started and continue to use modern human knowledge to come to understand God, which in turn is why a human-like God that can lead to numerous contradictions and inconsistencies is no longer believed in and has been replaced with a much more abstract conception.

The article is never regarded as declined in Modern English, although technically the words this and that, and their plural forms these and those, are modern forms of the as it was declined in Old English.

Domnall mac Ailpín ( Modern Gaelic: Dòmhnall mac Ailpein, anglicised sometimes as Donald MacAlpin, and known in most modern regnal lists as Donald I ); ( 812 – 13 April 862 ) was king of the Picts from 858 to 862.

Modern diplomatic immunity evolved parallel to the development of modern diplomacy.

Modern Hebrew Bibles call the two books Ezra and Nehemiah, as do other modern Bible translations.

Modern humans are known to have overlapped with Neanderthals in Europe for more than 10, 000 years, and the discovery raises the possibility that Neanderthals, modern humans and the Denisova hominin may have co-existed.

: Modern styling: The Eurotram, used in Strasbourg has a modern design that makes it look almost as much like a train as a tram, and has large windows along its entire length.

The scholar Harvey Wheeler attributed to Bacon, in his work " Francis Bacon's Verulamium-the Common Law Template of The Modern in English Science and Culture ", the creation of these distinguishing features of the modern common law system:

Modern guitarists such as Ramón Montoya, have introduced other positions: Montoya himself started to use other chords for the tonic in the modern Dorian sections of several palos ; F sharp for tarantas, B for granaínas and A flat for the minera.

It is the language used by modern Greeks and apart from Standard Modern Greek, there are several dialects of it.

The tradition of diglossia, the simultaneous existence of vernacular and archaizing written forms of Greek, was renewed in the modern era in the form of a polarization between two competing varieties: Dimotiki, the vernacular form of Modern Greek proper, and Katharevousa, meaning ' purified ', an imitation of classical Greek, which was developed in the early 19th century and used for literary, juridic, administrative and scientific purposes in the newly formed modern Greek state.

Modern gas masks are quite safe and do not use asbestos, but it is still important to be careful when using a modern gas mask.

Among modern languages, cases still feature prominently in most of the Balto-Slavic languages, with most having six to eight cases, as well as Icelandic, German and Modern Greek, which have four.

Modern day Afghanistan was conquered by the Maurya Empire, which was led by Chandragupta Maurya from Magadha ( modern day Bihar in India ).

Modern multiple stage bladed turbines typically reach 60 %-70 % efficiency, while large steam turbines often show turbine efficiency of over 90 % in practice.

In 2010, Modern Bliss took the stage with the famous DJ Boom Boom ( Tom Ebenhoeh ).

To stage Modern Medicine they raised £ 1, 000 sponsorships from artworld figures including Charles Saatchi.

Nonetheless, Otis took the group under his wing, helping them sign to Modern Records and changing their name from the Creolettes to the Peaches and gave the singer her stage name reversing Jamesetta into Etta James.

Sometimes a language that has changed so much that linguists describe it as a different language ( or different stage ) is called " extinct ", as in the case of Old English, a forerunner of Modern English.

Many languages, including all living Germanic languages, French, Welsh and some Berber and Arabic dialects, have gone through a process known as Jespersen's cycle, where an original negative particle is replaced by another, passing through an intermediate stage employing two particles ( e. g. Old French jeo ne dis → Modern Standard French je ne dis pas → Modern Colloquial French je dis pas " I don't say ").

Modern devices may use electrical stage designs, using screw gearing in concert with stepper motors, providing the operator with a computer-based stage input, such as a joystick or trackball.

Modern Hungarian folk music was first recorded in 1895 by Béla Vikár, setting the stage for the pioneering work of Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály and László Lajtha in musicological collecting.

Mikan set the stage for the Modern Age of the NBA dominated by tall, powerful players.

* Modern high power output stages are usually push pull, often necessitating some form of phase splitter to derive a differential / balanced drive signal from a single ended input, typically followed by a further gain stage ( the " driver ") prior to the output tubes.

In 1998 the artist Anna Best stage an event in Borough Market entitled ' The Wedding Project ', commissioned by Tate Modern.

* Modern Javanese, from the 20th century ( but this stage is not universally distinguished )

It marked a new stage in the history of Modern liberalism in the United States, but with the Conservative Coalition dominant in Congress, the major initiatives did not become law unless they had GOP support.

Modern training models include Egan's Skilled Helper model, and Hill's three stage ( exploration, insight, and action ) model.

Modern water puppetry is performed in a pool of water 4 meters square with the water surface being the stage.

* Article on the play's stage history from Early Modern Literary Studies

Later in 2003, she appeared in the original London stage production of Thoroughly Modern Millie uniquely alternating the role of Mrs Meers with Maureen Lipman, to allow Lipman to nurse her terminally ill husband.

For the stage musical, see Thoroughly Modern Millie ( musical ).

Great historical personalities like Shakespeare have influenced Modern Urdu tradition to a large extent when Indian, Iranian, Turkish stories and folk was adapted for stage with heavy doses of Urdu Poetry.

Early Modern English ( sometimes abbreviated to EModE ) is the stage of the English language used from the beginning of the Tudor period until the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English in the late 15th century to the transition to Modern English during the mid to late 17th century.

Modern historians tend to prefer the term Byzantine Empire for the eastern, medieval stage of the Roman Empire.