According to Katherine Litz, `` the becoming, the process of realization, is the dance ''.

The design is determined emotionally: `` I must reach into myself for the spring that will send me catapulting recklessly into the chaos of event with which the dance confronts me ''.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

Thus, there is freshness not only in the individual movements of the dance but in the shape of their continuity as well.

The sequence of movements in a Cunningham dance is unlike any sequence to be seen in life.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

The singular uncompromising force of their revolt against the cult of restraint is illustrated by their refusal to dance in a public place.

The dance is but a disguised ritual for the expression of ungratified sexual desire.

Daughter of a gypsy mother who taught her to dance, she is one of the few really beautiful girls in the New York Casbah, with dark eyes and dark, waist-length hair, the face of an adolescent patrician and a lithe, glimmering body.

Marlene ( surname: Adamo ), 25, a Brazilian divorcee who learned the dance from Arabic friends in Paris, now lives on Manhattan's West Side, is about the best belly dancer working the Casbah, loves it so much that she dances on her day off.

His creative development of melodic designs of Slavic dance tunes and love songs is captivating: witty, clever, adroit, and subtle.

It is more than just lack of dance training that is our problem, for just as gymnastics can learn from dance, dance has some very important things to learn from gymnastics.

To be fit, one has to start early with young children, and today the only person who really reaches such children is the teacher of dance.

This is not unlike the order received by the sergeant of an army motor pool: `` Four trucks to Fort Mason gym, 7:30 tonight, for hauling girls to dance.

A crowd of 1,400 is expected for the ceremonies, which will be followed by the show in which the writers will lampoon baseball personalities in skit, dance and song.

Jean Fardulli's Blue Angel is the first top local club to import that crazy new dance, the Twist.

There is no use at all in trying to follow it dance by dance and title by title, for it has a kind of nonstop format, and moves along in an admirable continuity that demands no pauses for identification.

One thing is certain, however, and that is that he is far more slavish to the detailed accents, phrasings and contours of the music he deals with than a confident dance creator need be.

Astaire is referenced in the 2003 animated feature, The Triplets of Belleville, in which he is eaten by his shoes after a fast-paced dance act.

Hammer was later considered a sellout due in part to overexposure as an entertainer ( having live instrumentation / bands, choreographed dance routines and an impact on popular culture being regularly referenced on television and in music ) and as a result of being too " commercial " when rap was " hardcore " at one point, then his image later becoming increasingly " gritty " to once again adapt to the ever-changing landscape of rap.

Thom Yorke also referenced electronic dance music, saying the song was " an attempt to capture that exploding beat sound where you're at the club and the PA's so loud, you know it's doing damage ".

* The dance is referenced in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, where it is the result of a magical curse.

He recorded several Twist tracks, including " The Twister ," " Bo's Twist " and " Mama Don't Allow No Twistin ," which referenced the objections many parents had to the pelvic motions of the dance.

The long-running success of the strip made the character a pop culture icon referenced in fiction, pop music, dance and sports:

In keeping with this attitude, Dvořák referenced works by Brahms and Beethoven, as well as a Viennese dance.

It is thought they are mates as they dance together during the mating dance, however their interchangeable appearance as referenced in the poem and closeness can be explained as their being siblings.

* In the 1912 song hit That Shakespearian Rag by Dave Stamper and Gene Buck, the dance is referenced in the refrain.

Even with the song's success, Verdine White claims that band is not a disco band, saying: " I guess you could say we were at the party but didn ’ t get on the dance floor.

In the game, players have to prepare the Spice Girls for a live television concert by doing such things as teaching them the dance steps they must do for the performance, choosing the song they will perform, and the sequence in which the song's lyrics will be sung.

It became a No. 1 dance club hit in the US, and an album entitled In the Name of Love ( consisting mainly of tracks from Set, with two others from A Product Of ... ( Participation )) was released in the US to capitalize on the song's popularity.

A popular dance in which the arms are used to spell out the four letters of the song's title may have much to do with this.

In September 2001 a dance version of " Stuck in the Middle with You " was a UK Top 10 hit for Louise, with a music video that drew heavily on the original song's appearance in the soundtrack of Reservoir Dogs.

For example, artist Will Smith avoided lip-syncing during his dance and vocal performance of " Wild Wild West " at the 1999 MTV Movie Awards, where it was evident that he was nearly out of breath at the song's conclusion.

" Their version of " Comfortably Numb " became a hit in many dance clubs and, after sending Pink Floyd themselves a copy, the Scissor Sisters received positive remarks from the song's original writers Roger Waters and David Gilmour.

Singing calls are based on a sung delivery of calls, most often to a recognizable melody, and square dance calls are mixed in with the song's original lyrics.

As the song progresses, many of the other crucifixion victims ( 140 in all, according to the script, though twenty-three crosses are actually seen on screen ) begin to dance in a very restricted way and join in with the song's whistled hook.

The koutoumba is unique among Lucian folk dance in that it is performed by a sole dancer and using only two to four lines of text, which is evocative of the song's atmosphere rather than narrative.

The song's dramatic instrumental finale was accompanied by a topless Perri Lister as the female chauffeur performing a sensuous dance — clearly an homage to Charlotte Rampling's topless, fetishistic " Dance of the Seven Veils " in Liliana Cavani's famous 1974 film The Night Porter.

At that time, " reggay " had been the name of a passing dance fashion in Jamaica, but the song's connection of the word with the music itself led to its use for the style of music that developed from it.

Other songs drop the usual dance accompaniment — one song depicts an argument between two protagonists through the song's lyrics, another establishes the character's state of mind through a moody photo collage, while yet another imagines the beautiful and idealised world of an artist in love through a song inside a painting.

The song is essentially an instrumental piece and a vehicle for scatting and improvisational vocals, since, as the chorus ( the song's only actual lyric ) states, " ain't no words to this song / you just dance and hum along ".

The song's story line focuses on a man who is a wallflower when he comes into a nightclub nervous to perform on the dance floor.

Although Carey did not re-record her vocals for it, she added a new gospel-style intro before the song's dance portion.

The shot used here was most likely to provide a visual for the line used at that particular point in the song's lyrics ("... maybe that Red-Haired Girl will come and dance with Charlie Brown ").

" Batdance " is almost two songs in one — a chaotic, mechanical dance beat that changes gears into a slinky, funky groove before changing back for the song's conclusion ( except on single version in which it goes straight to the mechanical Joker laughter from the end of the movie and Prince saying " Stop ").

The video features the song's single edit and Minogue performing several jazz dance numbers in a studio-theater with back-up dancers.

New and more sexual lyrics, a chord progression for the song's b-section, a bridge ( the original song did not have a bridge ), a " rap " from Aguilera, a new mid-song dance breakdown, and more powerful vocals by Aguilera were also added.

Paul Williams, who developed many of The Temptations's dance steps, developed a routine for the live shows that had him following the song's advice to " keep on walkin '" and performing a strut across the stage, to the delight of the audience. As befitting an intended " A " side, Paul's Don't Look Back was conceived by Motown Records as a elaborate and dynamic closing number for the Temptations, something that wouldn't have been done for a song that was simply an obscure " B " side of their records.

Writers and critics have noted the video and the song's influence in bringing an underground subculture into mainstream popular culture through the postmodern nature of her power and influence, as well as the way in which it followed a new trend in which dance music enjoyed widespread popularity.

Victor Amaro Vicente in his book The aesthetics of motion in musics for the Mevlana Celal ed-Din Rumi wrote that that the song's " complex rhythmic texture " made it a " dance hall favorite in the mid-1990s ".