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.

It usually refers to the International Standard and International Latin style dances ( see dance categories below ).

In addition, different sets of dance figures are usually taught for the two styles.

In northern and central Sardinia, the dance is lively and animated with leaps and agile movements and usually accompanied by a choir of three or more singers in the center of the circle.

The walk-through usually proceeds in the order of the moves as they will be done with the music ; in some dances, the caller may vary the order of moves during the dance, a fact that is usually explained as part of the caller's instructions.

With longer sets ( more than ~ 40 people ) this would require long enough sets that the caller will usually only run the dance all the way around on ( rare ) non equal-turn dances.

Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate in competitions.

Routines usually last around 2 minutes and 30 seconds and require cheer, dance, jumps, tumbling, and stunting portions.

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

Apart from instrumental music that forms a part of traditional folk music, especially dance music traditions, much traditional folk music is vocal music, since the instrument that makes such music is usually handy.

Freestyle features a dance tempo with stress on beats two and four ; syncopation with a bass line, lead synth, or percussion, and optional stabs of synthesized brass or orchestral samples ; sixteenth-note hi-hats ; a chord progression that lasts eight, 16, or 32 beats and is usually in a minor key ; relatively complex, upbeat melodies with singing, verses, and a chorus ; and themes about love or dancing.

A traditional concert has only a singer and one guitar while a dance concert usually includes two or three guitars, one or more singers singing solo in turn and one or more dancers.

This dance music genre, not to be confused with improvised freestyle rapping, was dominated, at the time, by electro funk beats and vaguely Latin melodic and percussion elements, over which Latino vocalists sang melodramatic pop vocals, usually in English.

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.

The music for dance parties is usually selected and played by a disc jockey.

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 ).

A musical may use actors who are not operatically trained, and usually the principals are called upon to dance.

It is usually the third and final part of the competition to be contested, after the compulsory dances and the original dance.

Typically these types of Show Bands don't include a dance line ( usually the drill team is a separate entity from the band, though may be featured during the half time show.

A minuet, also spelled menuet, is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually in 3 / 4 time.

Initially, before its adoption in contexts other than social dance, the minuet was usually in binary form, with two sections of usually eight bars each, but the second section eventually expanded, resulting in a kind of ternary form.

Shiva's long, matted tresses, usually piled up in a knot, loosen during the dance and crash into the heavenly bodies, knocking them off course or destroying them utterly.

Ballet dance works ( ballets ) are choreographed and performed by trained artists, include mime and acting, and are set to music ( usually orchestral but occasionally vocal ).

Morris dance is a form of English folk dance usually accompanied by music.