in 2009 AIYF Dance Lab was created as a new development for the AIYF Dance Summer School.

Dance Lab is an opportunity to explore dance styles in depth with guest masterclass tutors from Scotland and abroad.

Dance Lab has a strong emphasis on how the dancer creatively develops their own dance while keeping a strong technical reference point.

# REDIRECT Le Groupe Dance Lab

Le Groupe Dance Lab ( formerly Le Groupe de la Place Royale ) was a contemporary dance research center formed in Montreal in 1966 as a dance company, re-located to Ottawa in 1977 and renamed and re-purposed in 1988.

A brisk, satirical spoof of contemporary American mores entitled `` An American Journey '' was given its first New York performance at Hunter College Playhouse last night by the Helen Tamiris-Daniel Nagrin Dance Company.

Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986.

It os well known fact that Rage Against the Machine was inspired by the Urban Dance Squad.

Another Eartha Kitt collaboration, " My Discarded Men ," was choreographed on the episode " Top 14 Perform " of So You Think You Can Dance season 8.

Holly was offered a spot in the Winter Dance Party, a three-week tour across the Midwest opening on January 23, 1959, by the GAC agency, with other notable performers such as Dion and the Belmonts, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson.

Waylon Jennings was unable to attend due to his commitment to the still-touring Winter Dance Party.

The leading figures of the second generation of historical dance research include Shirley Wynne and her Baroque Dance Ensemble which was founded at Ohio State University in the early 1970s and Wendy Hilton ( 1931 – 2002 ), a student of Belinda Quirey who supplemented the work of Melusine Wood with her own research into original sources.

In 1986 Francine Lancelot's catalogue raisonné of baroque dance, entitled " La Belle Dance " was published.

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.

Paul, MN, called " Les be Gay and Dance " was started, in which contra dance was done without any reference to gender, avoiding calling moves with any reference to " ladies " or " gents.

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.

The first ballet dance academy was the Académie Royale de Danse ( Royal Dance Academy ), opened in Paris in 1661.

In 1985, TRAX Dance Music Guide was launched by American Record Pool in Beverly Hills.

' Let's Dance ', with its little narrative surrounding the young Aborigine couple, targeted ' youth ', and ' China Girl ', with its bare-bummed ( and later partially censored ) beach lovemaking scene ( a homage to the film From Here to Eternity ), was sufficiently sexually provocative to guarantee heavy rotation on MTV.

Let's Dance was followed by the Serious Moonlight Tour, during which Bowie was accompanied by guitarist Earl Slick and backing vocalists Frank and George Simms.

Stevie Ray Vaughan was guest guitarist playing solo on " Let's Dance ".

There was also a Dance of Death painted in the 1540s on the walls of the cloister of St Paul's Cathedral, London with texts by John Lydgate, which was destroyed in 1549.

English Country Dance ( ECD ) was popular well into the Baroque and Regency eras.

English Country Dance was also popular in France.

At the age of eight Armstrong contracted a disease that was known as St. Vitus ' Dance, which left him with a lifelong tic when excited or under stress.

In 1932, the dance studio was renamed The Gene Kelly Studio of the Dance.

She founded The New York Baroque Dance Company ( http :// www. nybaroquedance. org /) in 1976 with Ann Jacoby, and the company has since toured internationally.

* Wuppertal Dance Theatre ( Tanztheater Wuppertal ), a world-famous center of modern dance founded by the choreographer Pina Bausch

In 1661 Louis founded the Académie Royale de Danse ( Royal Dance Academy ) which was charged with establishing standards for the art of dance and the certification of dance instructors.

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 ).

Scottish country dancing was in danger of dying out when, in 1923, the Scottish Country Dance Society ( SCDS ) was founded in Glasgow with the goal of preserving " country dances as danced in Scotland " ( this was only recently changed to read " Scottish country dances ").

These artists, among others, would eventually become the main topics of conversation in the Intelligent Dance Music List, an electronic mailing list founded in August 1993.

* The Royal Academy of Dance ; founded in 1920 as the Association of Teachers of Operatic Dancing ; reconstituted by a Royal Charter issued in 1936 by King George V

* Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, a dance company founded by Lar Lubovitch

The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society ( RSCDS ), was founded in 1923 as the Scottish Country Dance Society by Jean Milligan and Ysobel Stewart of Fasnacloich, who wanted to preserve country dancing as performed in Scotland, country dancing having fallen into disuse after the influx of continental ballroom dances such as the waltz or quadrilles and, later on, American-style dances like the One-step or foxtrot.

* Katherine Dunham-African-American dancer, and anthropologist, originally a ballet dancer she founded her first company Ballet Negre in 1936 and later the Katherine Dunham Dance Company based in Chicago, Illinois.

The Ridgefield Conservatory of Dance was founded as the Ridgefield Studio of Classical Ballet in 1965 by Patricia Schuster.

In 1968 Kazimierz Jóźwiak, who was a choreographer and manager as well as director of the Kutno House of Culture founded the " Song and Dance of Kutno ` s Land Band " (" Zespół Pieśni i Tańca Ziemi Kutnowskiej ").

In 1973, de Mille founded the Agnes de Mille Dance Theatre, which she later revived as Heritage Dance Theatre.

The Paris Opera, originally known as the Royal Academy of Dance ( founded in 1661 by King Louis XIV ), features the oldest ballet company in the nation and arguably the world.

The Martha Graham Dance Company is the oldest dance company in America, founded in 1926.

Epifani Dance Company was founded by Lakesha Buchanon in Watts in 2002.

The Orchestra of Moldovan Folk Music and Dance was founded in 1949 ; the orchestra plays Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, German music.

In 1944, the Children's Dance Theatre, later known as the Philadelphia Dance Academy ( PDA ), was founded by Nadia Chilkovsky Nahumck.

In 1945, Bird founded the Doreen Bird School of Dance, the predecessor of today's Bird College of Dance, Music & Theatre Performance.