The only factors that are personally set by the choreographer are the movements themselves, the number of the dancers, and the approximate total duration of the dance.

Folk dances of British origin include the square dance, descended from the quadrille, combined with the American innovation of a caller instructing the dancers.

It was essential, if popular dance was to flourish, for dancers to have some basic movements they could confidently perform with any partner they might meet.

These refrains would have been sung by the dancers in time with the dance.

At the end of the 17th century, English country dances were taken up by French dancers ; hybrid choreographies exist from this period using the steps from French court dance in English dances.

" In 1987, Chris Ricciotti started a gay dance group in Providence, RI, using the terms " ladies " and " gents " although dancers were not lining up according to gender.

Other gender-free dance groups started up in the area after that, and in 1989, at the gender-free dance group in Jamaica Plain, MA, a group of dancers led by Janet Dillon protested the use of these terms, and the armband system was devised: the traditionally male-role dancers would wear armbands and be called " armbands " or just " bands ," and the traditionally female-role dancers would be called " bare arms " or just " bares.

After the walk-through, the music begins and the dancers repeat that sequence some number of times before that dance ends, often 10 to 15 minutes, depending on the length of the contra lines.

At the end of each dance, the dancers thank their partners.

At most dances, no special outfits are worn, but " peasant skirts " or other full, lightweight skirts are popular, as these have a very pretty effect when swinging or twirling and some dancers find them more comfortable to dance in than pants.

Connection can be used to transmit power and energy as well as information and signals-some dance forms ( and some dancers ) are at one extreme of pure power, and others will be at the other extreme of pure signaling, but most are probably a mixture of both.

Good social dancers adapt to the conventions of the dance and the responses of their partners.

Dance categories by number of interacting dancers are mainly solo dance, partner dance and group dance.

Professional dancers often need to supplement their income, either in dance related roles ( e. g., dance teaching, dance sport coaches, yoga ) or Pilates instruction to achieve financial stability.

The dance is still performed today ( primarily double shag ) by swing dance enthusiasts worldwide.

* Djembefola drum and dance community Large and very active international community of djembe enthusiasts

In the second half of the twentieth century many groups were revived, mostly by folk music and dance enthusiasts.

Thereafter, this new dance, which had been created by putting the Syrtos Kritikos to the slower " Misirlou " music, was known as Misirlou and spread among the Greek-American community, as well as among non-Greek U. S. folk-dance enthusiasts.

Cobalt Flux dance platforms are considered to be among the most reliable according to dance game enthusiasts, however there are also anecdotes of less than high reliability.

The dance hall in Pontoon attracted large numbers of enthusiasts to its week-end dances from a large catchment area of County Mayo and further afield.

The dance enthusiasts had events like PUMP IT UP-The Hip Hop Challenge where the best dancers got “ Gift of Dance ” scholarships for a free course at Shiamak Davar ’ s Institute of Performing Arts, DANCING WITH THE STARS-Solo Dance Competition had the Top 3 dancers getting a free course each at the Terence Lewis Dance Foundation Scholarship Trust and JAISA FILMO MEIN HOTA HAI-Story telling through dance with the best 3 dancers getting a free course at The Danceworx Academy.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

I'll make them dance the tango.

Players are judged by how well they time their dance to the patterns presented to them and are allowed to choose more music to play to if they receive a passing score.

Egg dance is a traditional Easter game in which eggs are laid on the ground or floor and the goal is to dance among them without damaging any eggs which originated in Germany.

There are a number of modern dances, such as hip hop dance, that evolve spontaneously, but the term " folk dance " is generally not applied to them, and the terms " street dance " or " vernacular dance " are used instead.

Each of the righteous will walk with God, who will lead them in a dance.

Throughout Asia, karaoke establishments are often fronts for gentlemen's clubs, where businessmen go and pay to have female hosts drink, sing, and dance with them.

Some of the lindy-hoppers had cards printed with their names on them and became dance professors teaching the tourists.

* In the Mexican state of Durango, the folkloric dance called Danza de los Machetes consists of blind-folded dancers juggling machetes and pitching them at increasing speeds between one another in synchronicity.

Different from goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing ; their amorous freedom sets them apart from the restricted and chaste wives and daughters of the Greek polis.

Though the band's early years were shadowed by the legacy and basic sound of Joy Division, their experience of the early 1980s New York City club scene increased their knowledge of dance music and saw them incorporate elements of that style into their work.

At Lycosura on a marble relief on the veil of Despoina appear figures with the heads of different animals obviously in a ritual dance, and some of them hold a flute.

By the late 1810s, under siege from the Quadrille, dancing masters began to invent " new " forms of country dance, often with figures borrowed from the Quadrille, and giving them exotic names such as the Danse Ecossoise and Danse Espagnuole which suggested entire new dances but actually covered very minor variations in the classic form.

At the movie Mary and Steve dance but as they are about to kiss a heavy downpour forces them to run for cover.

Plutarch also states that Spartans treated the Helots " harshly and cruelly ": they compelled them to drink pure wine ( which was considered dangerous – wine usually being cut with water ) "... and to lead them in that condition into their public halls, that the children might see what a sight a drunken man is ; they made them to dance low dances, and sing ridiculous songs ..." during syssitia ( obligatory banquets ).

She thought she had great possibilities in the ballet and wanted to show the eminent producer how well she could dance.

Gradually, he realized that the pentagon of Angel elders had vanished, and that the ritual learning dance of the nursery had been broken up.

In historical times Greek maidens of Ephesus performed an annual circular dance with weapons and shields that had been established by Hippolyta and her Amazons.

Although both actors had separate careers, their filmed dance sequences together, which included portrayals of the Castles, have reached iconic status.

However, 18th century theatrical dance had at least two other styles: comic or grotesque, and semi-serious.

In other areas, the dance is done to launeddas and the shepherd's sulittu but the accordion had also made its appearance by the 19th century.

By then, early dance camps, retreats, and weekends had emerged, such as Pinewoods Camp, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, which became primarily a music and dance camp in 1933, and NEFFA, the New England Folk Festival, also in Massachusetts, which began in 1944.

Other dances, such as the lindy hop with its relationship to rock and roll music and rock and roll dance have also had a global influence.

The hardcore scene, which had been a haven for free-thinking intellectuals and downtrodden nonconformists, was increasingly attracting hooligans who came to punk concerts looking only to slam dance and fight to violent music.

She had run away from home, intent on making a career in dance, and aged 18 joined the chorus line at the London Palladium.

Presley's impact on him was likewise emphatic: " I saw a cousin of mine dance to ... ' Hound Dog ' and I had never seen her get up and be moved so much by anything.

If a human watched the dance of the elves, he would discover that even though only a few hours seemed to have passed, many years had passed in the real world.

Historically, the majority of fiddle music was dance music, while violin music had either grown out of dance music or was something else entirely.