Image: Nathalie Pechalat & Fabian Bourzat Spin-2006 Skate America. jpg | A dance spin with the woman in a camel position and the man in a sit position.

An important social element was the calling of the dance by the leading lady ( a position of honor ), who would determine the figures, steps, and music to be danced.

The waltz is a ballroom and folk dance in time, performed primarily in closed position.

Couples may frequently dance in the promenade position, depending on local preferences.

In California the waltz was banned by Mission fathers until after 1834 because of the " closed " dance position.

This Spanish Waltz was a combination of dancing around the room in closed position, and a " formation " dance of two couples facing each other and performing a sequence of steps.

This is known in square dance jargon as " all position dancing " ( APD ) and is common in upper-level challenge square dancing as well.

The frigatebird symbolises command of the sea, power, freedom and Kiribati cultural dance patterns, the blue and white wavy bands represent the Pacific Ocean, which surrounds Kiribati and the sun refers to Kiribati's position astride the Equator.

Although Strauss was the most sought-after composer of dance music in the latter half of the 19th century, stiff competition was present in the form of Karl Michael Ziehrer and Émile Waldteufel ; the latter held a commanding position in Paris.

It was the first ballroom dance performed in the closed hold or " waltz " position.

In the first place, the couples did not dance in the closed position as today.

The elaborate breeding performance includes head-shaking, a head-lowered " cat " display, parallel rushes in an upright position and mutual presentations of green weeds, and culminates in a " penguin " dance in which pair members raise the whole body upright, breast to breast.

The most commonly used kind of closed position comes from the waltz, and is very commonly used in ballroom dance.

Some specific varieties of this kind of closed position are used in specific categories of ballroom dance.

In Scandinavian folk dance ( e. g. the polska, pols, and hambo ) there are variations on shoulder-waist position in which the leader's left hand is on the follower's shoulder, upper arm, or elbow, and in the latter case the follower's right arm is outstretched with the hand just above the leader's sharply bent elbow.

The accompanying dance styles tend to emphasize a clockwise couple turn alternating with a resting step in which couples walk – typically stepping on only the first and third beat – in escort position.

Recently two Romanian dance bands O-zone and Morandi ( band ), reached top position in European music charts thus making contemporary Romanian music world-famous.

Dance position is a position of a dancer or a mutual position of a dance couple assumed during a dance.

He chuckled and gave the signal for the dance to start.

Thus, the avant-garde choreographers have extended the scope of materials available for dance composition.

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.

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

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 ; ;

Orchesis, for students interested in the modern dance, contributes to the May Fete and offers earlier in the year a modern dance demonstration.

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.

If the dance teachers of America make it their business to prepare their young charges for the gymnastics that must come some day if our schools are really responsible, we will be that much ahead.

Dance teachers can respond to President Kennedy's request not only through their regular dance work, but also through the kind of basic gymnastic work that makes for strength and flexibility.

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.

or who undertook to set records for remaining erect on a dance floor, with or without a partner ; ;

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.

Student Council officers announced today the Kowalski family would be given the combined proceeds from a school dance held two weeks ago, and another dance for Fuhrmann's 770 students this Friday night.

So the Kirov will fly back to Russia, minus a Chicago engagement, a serious loss for dance fans -- and for the frustrated bookers, cancellation of one of the richest bookings in the country.

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.

Others dances sometimes placed under the umbrella " ballroom dance " include Nightclub Dances such as Lindy Hop, West Coast Swing, Nightclub Two Step, Hustle, Salsa, and Merengue.

After looking in various venues, they visited the Crazy Daisy Nightclub on High Street where Oakey spotted two teenage girls dancing together on the dance floor.

The dance group originally met each other while as music promoters and DJ's for the Mix Nightclub in Harrogate in the early 1990s.

The dance started to gain some popularity in the United States around 1929 when the original La Conga Nightclub opened its doors.

Two noted troupes from overseas will get the fall dance season off to a sparkling start.

:* Two American country dance films on DVD: " Country Corners " ( 1976 ), and " Full of Life A-Dancin '" ( 1978 ).

There were also underground discotheques in Nazi Germany patronized by anti-Nazi youth called the swing kids .. Jimmy Saville played records of big band music in dance halls in Leeds, England, during World War Two.

Two major influences on Dowland's music were the popular consort songs, and the dance music of the day.

Two dances specifically named in the Danish ballads which appear to be line dances of this type are The Beggar Dance, and The Lucky Dance which may have been a dance for women.

The dance is also known as " Two Step " and was " one of the most popular forms of contemporary social dance " as a Disco Couples Dance in 1978.

Two girls dance between blossoming flowers, on other side of a similar but armless and legless figure which seems to grow out of the ground.

Two dance styles associated with punk are pogo dancing and moshing.

* Two Steps Waltz, a Portuguese folk dance

Two major variations on tap dance exist: rhythm ( Jazz ) tap and Broadway tap.

Two area contra dance groups have used the hall in recent years.

* Java ( November 27, 1966 ) – Two tube-like Muppets ( which were designed by Frank Oz ) dance to the Al Hirt song " Java.

Two dancers ( Dee Dee and Ruth ) from the troupe were invited to dance on TOTP by choreographer Virginia Mason in 1968 for a routine to " Simon Says " by the 1910 Fruitgum Company.

alt = Two people dressed in fancy costume ( Gumby-right ; Banana – left ) seated in stadiumFor spectators, particular emphasis on the South Stand, where hordes of rugby fans dress up and dance for most of the duration.

Two sources credit African American dancers as the source of the Fox Trot: Vernon Castle himself, and then dance teacher Betty Lee.

There are several variations of Cajun dance: a Cajun One Step, also called a Cajun Jig, a Cajun Two Step or related Cajun Jitterbug, and a Cajun Waltz.

They were dance versions of the past hits " Two Out of Three Ain't Bad " and " Making Love Out of Nothing At All ".

The first dance originated in the Apulia region and spread next to all part of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

Two months later, the Navy held the first formal dance on the commons, and the Trustees finally discarded the “ no dancing ” policy in 1945, after the Redlands V-12 unit had been disbanded.

According to an early settler in Texas, " The gentle sex were few in number at the dance ... Two men had to dance together to make a set.

Two street dancers performing in the URBANOS dance contest in Brazil.