The third time was on the floor of the Beverly Hilton ballroom and for the critical eyes and tongues of judges.

In times past, ballroom dancing was social dancing for the privileged, leaving folk dancing for the lower classes.

The first authoritative knowledge of the earliest ballroom dances was recorded toward the end of the 16th century, when Jehan Tabourot, under the pen name " Thoinot-Arbeau ", published in 1588 his Orchésographie, a study of late 16th-century French renaissance social dance.

In 1650 the Minuet, originally a peasant dance of Poitou, was introduced into Paris and set to music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and danced by the King Louis XIV in public, and would continue to dominate ballroom from that time until the close of the 18th century.

It was in use by 1 October 1851, and served as a ballroom until completion of the new ballroom in 1856.

The general picture seems to be that during most of the 17th century, a style of hip hop was of late Renaissance dance was widespread, but as time progressed, French ballroom dances such as the minuet were widely adopted at fashionable courts.

While his audience was awaiting developments in the Lindbergh kidnapping, Block played records and created the illusion that he was broadcasting from a ballroom, with the nation ’ s top dance bands performing live.

The name East Coast Swing was coined initially to distinguish the dance from the street form and the new variant used in the competitive ballroom arena ( as well as separating the dance from West Coast Swing, which was developed in California ).

Professional dance teachers in the US saw this approach to dancing as " extreme ", " undisciplined ", and thus, deemed it necessary to standardize the dance to present it as a sell-able commodity for the social or ballroom market Thus, compared to the mambo in Cuba, mambo had a different movement sequence in the United States and elsewhere, as it was popularized internationally.

These included: Rheinterrasse, Löwenbräu ( Bavarian beer restaurant ), Grinzing ( Viennese café and wine bar ), Bodega ( Spanish winery ), Csarda ( Hungarian ), Wild West Bar ( aka the Arizona Bar ) ( American ), Osteria ( Italian ), Kombüse ( Bremen drinking den-literally " galley "), Rübchen ( Teltow, named after the well-known turnip dish Teltower Rübchen, made with turnips grown locally in the small town of Teltow just outside Berlin ), plus a Turkish cafe and Japanese tearoom ; additionally there was a large ballroom.

In the early part of this period, up to the early 1810s, the ballroom was dominated by the country dance, the cotillion, and the scotch reel.

When the academy was founded, the ballroom was the biggest room in Stockholm that could be heated and thus used in the winter, so the king asked if he could borrow it.

At the Duchess of Richmond's ball ( which itself was held in something more like a barn than the magnificent ballroom depicted

As a result of the Swedish occupation, Kronborg was deprived of many of its most precious art works, including the richly decorated fountain in the castle courtyard, Frederick II's canopy and a number of the large ceiling paintings commissioned by Christian IV for the ballroom.

She was given a ballroom studio with the premise that she would sing in the lobby every Saturday.

The story originated by chance when Delbert Mann and Chayefsky were rehearsing The Reluctant Citizen in the old Abbey Hotel's ballroom, which was also used for Friday night meetings of the Friendship Club.

It featured many popular Child Ballads of the day, such as " Mary Hamilton " and was recorded in only four days in the ballroom of New York City's Manhattan Towers Hotel.

The Savoy Ballroom was a medium sized ballroom for music and public dancing in located between 140th and 141st Streets on Lenox Avenue in Harlem, New York City

The ballroom, which was 10, 000 square feet in size, was on the second floor and a block long.

Thewlis owns a converted Victorian ballroom in Clerkenwell.

On a level with the entrance hall are the 18th century reception rooms and above this floor the former ballroom, later converted into a chapel.

* Hall Tavern Visitor Center-Originally built c. 1785 in Charlemont, Massachusetts, with a ballroom wing that was added around 1815, the building was moved to Deerfield and converted to a visitor center.

These " chair-wagons " enable the concert hall to be converted into a ballroom in approximately two hours.

Home to ballroom dancing and musical acts, Ocean Pier was purchased by William Hunt in 1935 and converted to an amusement park with rides including a Ferris wheel, a roller coaster and a dark ride.

Initially it was used as a meeting hall and community centre, before being converted in the 1920s to a cinema and ballroom and renamed The Majestic by the locals.

The event takes place at a hotel ballroom converted into a fully functioning theater by students of the Production and Design program.

The ornate iron-framed ballroom built by Frederick Sargood ( which was converted from an earlier conservatory ) was demolished to make way for a lavish " Hollywood style " swimming pool and ballroom and of gardens were maintained.

The ownership of the center changed hands multiple times over the next few decades, with the theater being converted into a large ballroom and being used as a Freemason's temple in the 1930s and a trade union headquarters in the 1940s before falling into disuse in the 1970, before being bought by Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, the ballroom's current owner.

Some of the city's main venues include the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, the SECC and King Tut's Wah Wah Hut ( where Oasis were spotted and signed by Glaswegian record mogul Alan McGee ), the Queen Margaret Union and the Barrowland, a historic ballroom, converted into a live music venue.

The road improvement plans collapsed, and after the war, in 1951, it was converted to a huge ballroom and reopened by Matthews and Sons, as the Lyceum Ballroom.

Next, the mansion was converted into an Italian club, boasting a ballroom, orchestra and a regular Sunday boxing match, after a period of vacancy.

* After her departure, the ballroom is transformed into the most ultra-modern Night Club of the time.

The pair spin and lean, dodging back and forth past each other before moving into a standard ballroom position where the first hints of the supported backbend are introduced.

It was purchased by Canadian financier and MP for Chiswick and Brentford, Lt. Col. Grant Morden, who spent a fortune transforming the mansion into a show-piece home, adding refinements such as a huge ballroom, a Turkish bath and an indoor squash court.

Among its influential figures are dancers Yuval Hod and Nathalie Gomez ( world champions in several occasions ), who are known for incorporating Salsa and ballroom moves into Lindy Hop, using a variety of modern clean “ swing outs ” and wearing modern outfits in competitions.

Upon biting the peach, Sarah slips into a trance and finds herself in a dream-like ballroom where Jareth attempts to seduce her.

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.

The dance was simplified, adapted to the preferences of conventional ballroom dancers, and incorporated into the repertoire used in International Ballroom dance competitions.

Both Uruguayan and Argentine tango features other vocabulary foreign to ballroom, such as the parada ( in which the leader puts his foot against the follower's foot ), the arrastre ( in which the leader appears to drag or be dragged by the follower's foot ), and several kinds of sacada ( in which the leader displaces the follower's leg by stepping into her space ).

Near the tower, a pair of stairways leads beneath the Doom Buggy track and into a passageway that travels between the loading area and the graveyard, below the endless hallway, and behind the ballroom.

What had been praised during Clarkson's tenure, however, was soon critiqued when it was revealed that into Jean's appointment, Rideau Hall's interpretation and exhibition planner, Fabienne Fusade, was removing from sight the portraits of Canada's past and present sovereigns and other members of the Royal Family, in order to fulfill Jean's wish to make the royal residence a showcase for Canadian art and give " a strong image of Canada "; the portrait by Jean Paul Lemieux of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh that had for decades dominated the focal wall of the ballroom was shifted to the rear wall, thereby bumping the copy of George Hayter's state portrait of Queen Victoria that had hung there to the Tent Room, where the portraits of Canada's British governors general had been collected together.

" The spoof also uses the magazine's marketing slogan when " four Mozambicans wandered into the ballroom apparently in search of the good life in the great north.

* " You Made Me Love You " ( ONJ ) ( non-soundtrack LP track released as B-side of the " Suddenly " single ) on Glenn Miller record played by Danny in the ballroom of his home ; segué into ...

The four-manual organ plays into the Longwood ballroom and can be heard throughout the conservatory when adjoining window panels are opened.

* Dance with the Wind ( 2004 )-South Korean film about a man who falls in love with ballroom dancing, but finds himself drawn into the sordid and corrupt world of " cabaret bars ".

Guests travel along an elevated mezzanine, looking through a-tall pane of glass into an empty ballroom.

Instead of having large halls which could be transformed in a wink into a dining room, ballroom, or audience chamber ( thanks to big, sturdy transportable furniture ), the trend now was towards a large number of smaller rooms in which smaller and more delicate specialized furniture stayed in permanence.

" They then walk into the ballroom hand in hand.

In 1887, this modest property was expanded and altered by noted architect Stanford White at the cost of $ 130, 000 into a mansion with an interior marble staircase and a ballroom on the top floor where Mamie Fish gave elaborate parties for New York society.

Service life was enlivened by various scrapes and escapades, including an occasion when Fiennes and another officer procured a very lively, squirming piglet, covered it with tank grease and slipped it into the crowded ballroom of the army's Staff College, Camberley.

A more than accomplished dancer, Tim has taken this particular skill and put it into practice in a number of ballroom dance competitions.

Her brother Billy is the exception to the norm and is implied to be gay, such as in the episode Daphne's Room, in which Daphne said her brothers would " sneak into the bathroom and peek at me in the shower ... except for me brother Billy, the ballroom dancer.

The gallery leads into the ballroom, which contains walls of gilt panelling and mirrors.