Dr. Louis Lalaurie examined the inert form of the slave on the parquet dance floor and pronounced him dead.

An exploration of these possible relationships constitutes the process of creation and thereby gives form to the dance.

Finally, tiring of so monotonous a form of exercise, they decided to dance instead.

* Bar ( dance ), a form of dance that originated in Western Armenia and continue to be found in modern Turkey.

While adhering to the standard ternary design of a dance movement ( scherzo-trio-scherzo, or minuet-trio-minuet ), the scherzo section has an elaborate internal structure ; it is a complete sonata form.

The ballad probably derives its name from medieval French dance songs or " ballares " ( from which we also get ballet ), as did the alternative rival form that became the French Ballade.

Performed by many Capoeira groups, samba de roda is a traditional Afro-Brazilian dance & musical form that has been associated with Capoeira for many decades.

Dance may also be regarded as a form of nonverbal communication between humans, and is also performed by other animals ( bee dance, patterns of behaviour such as a mating dance ).

Some musical genres have a parallel dance form such as baroque music and baroque dance ; others, such as classical music and classical ballet, developed separately.

Ballroom dancing is a dance art form which combines athletic fitness with artistically skillful dance steps.

Dance training differs depending on the dance form.

Dances like " Odra Magadhi ", which after decades long debate, has been traced to present day Mithila, Orissa region's dance form of Odissi ( Orissi ), indicate influence of dances in cultural interactions between different regions.

While it is mostly social dance, its ballroom form may be competitive dance, as in DanceSport.

DanceWriting is a form of dance notation.

English Country Dance is a form of folk dance.

It is a social dance form, which has earliest documented instances in the late 16th century.

East Coast Swing ( ECS ) is a form of social partner dance.

This form of swing dance is strictly based in six-count patterns that are simplified forms of the original patterns copied from Lindy Hop.

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 ).

Its signature style is electronic dance music, featuring cut up samples of hip hop, breaks, jazz, spoken word and various other types of music, as well as video and multimedia.

Chicago is home to several other modern and jazz dance troupes, such as the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

The Collegiate Shag ( or " Shag ") is a partner dance done primarily to upper tempo jazz music ( usually 200 + beats per minute ).

* Competitive dance, in which a variety of theater dance styles such as: acro, ballet, jazz, hip-hop, lyrical, and tap, are permitted.

African American dances are those dances which have developed within African American communities in everyday spaces, rather than in dance studios, schools or companies and its derivatives, tap dance, disco, jazz dance, swing dance, hip hop dance and breakdance.

In Occupied France, jazz and bebop music plus the jitterbug were banned by the Nazis as decadent American influences, so members of the Resistance met at hidden underground dance clubs called discotheques ( fr.

In 1943, Jimmy Savile launched the world's first DJ dance party by playing jazz records in the upstairs function room of the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds in Otley, England.

* The Georgians ( Frank Guarente ), an American jazz and dance band of the 1920s

Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance.

In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance — modern jazz dance — emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance.

Every individual style of jazz dance has roots traceable to one of these two distinct origins.

This dance form developed alongside jazz music in New Orleans in the early 1900s.

During this time, choreographers from the modern and ballet dance worlds experimented with the jazz dance style.

The dance was of Haitian origin.

With shout and slow dance, with tears and song, with scream and contortion, the corner group was beset by hysteria and shivering, wailing, shouting, possession of something that seemed like an alien and outside force.

The State Ballet of Rhode Island, the first incorporated group, was formed for the purpose of extending knowledge of the art of ballet in the Community, to promote interest in ballet performances, to contribute to the cultural life of the State, and to provide opportunity for gifted dance students who, for one reason or another, are unable to pursue a career and to develop others for the professional state ; ;

Diane loved to dance in the nude, something she was to demonstrate time and again.

Or what was it that, before Via, Sonny, Walter and all, I began almost to dance with shuddering and cry out, `` I knew she'd do it!!

I stopped the tractor and I shouted down to the boy, and I knew he could hear me, for the morning was clear and still, but he did not even hesitate in that brutal, murdering dance.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

However, this division into two groups is considered by some modern scholars to be too simplistic and often it is practically impossible to know whether a lyric composition was sung or recited, or whether or not it was accompanied by musical instruments and dance.

She was punished by the goddess for not having performed a ritual dance.

During this time, he was employed and mentored by fellow racketeer Frankie Yale, a bartender in a Coney Island dance hall and saloon called the Harvard Inn.

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.

The dance was initially met with tremendous opposition due to the semblance of impropriety associated with the closed hold, though the stance gradually softened.

The third event was a concerted effort to transform some of the dance crazes into dances which could be taught to a wider dance public in the US and Europe.

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.

He was especially fond of the asymmetrical dance rhythms and pungent harmonies found in Bulgarian music.

" The Big Apple " was a popular song and dance in the 1930s.

The same basic technique was used both at social events, and as theatrical dance in court ballets and at public theaters.

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.

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.