He went on to use objects -- hoops, poles, capes -- which he employed as extensions of the body of the dancer, who moved with them.

The other variables include the dancer who is to perform the movement and the length of time he is to take in its performance.

He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.

But the one that upset the financially wise was the professional dancer who related in a book how he parlayed his earnings into a $2,000,000 profit on the stock market.

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.

Among the spectators was the noted exotic dancer, Patti Waggin who is Mrs. Don Rudolph when off the stage.

* Deirdre, a famous dancer who was burned nearly completely and whose brain was placed in a faceless but beautiful mechanical body, in C. L. Moore's short story of 1944, " No Woman Born ".

Kane was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Joy, a jazz singer, teacher, dancer, and pianist, and Michael Kane, an architect who worked for the World Bank.

In some versions, the dancer who is going outside the set at the moment casts out to begin that motion.

In this Hollywood back-story movie, Bogart again is the broken-down man, this time the cynical director-narrator who saves his career by making a star of a flamenco dancer Ava Gardner, modeled on the real life of Rita Hayworth.

* Eugene Louis Facciuto ( aka " Luigi "), an accomplished dancer who, after suffering a crippling automobile accident in the 1950s, created a new style of jazz dance based on the warm-up exercises he invented to circumvent his physical handicaps.

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (; born 1 July 1931 ) is a French film actress and dancer, who appeared in 45 films between 1951 and 2003.

Pandit Birju Maharaj, a Kathak dancer, who choreographed Dixit in the film Devdas for the song " Kaahe Chhed " calls her as " the best Bollywood dancer due to her versatility.

In 1954, at age 42, he married Nanette Bearden, a 27 year old dancer who herself became an artist and critic.

It was developed in 1974 by Valerie Sutton, a dancer who had two years earlier developed DanceWriting.

After it is apparent that the wife is terrified of the foreigners, it is disclosed that she is the former wife and partner of a Paris dancer known as René, who had been shot by the Nazis.

Twyla Tharp ( born July 1, 1941 ) is an American dancer and choreographer, who lives and works in New York City.

A grass-skirted hula dancer from the pilot episode was also included, played by Helen Kuoha-Torco, who later became a professor of business technology at Windward Community College.

Nataraja or Nataraj, (), The Lord ( or King ) of Dance ; Telugu: నటర ా జ ; Tamil: க ூ த ் தன ் ( Koothan ); Kannada: ನಟರ ಾ ಜ, is a depiction of the god Shiva as the cosmic dancer who performs his and divine dance to destroy a weary universe and make preparations for the god Brahma to start the process of creation.

Margaretha Geertruida " Margreet " Zelle ( 7 August 1876 – 15 October 1917 ), better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy who was executed by firing squad in France under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I.

The person who performs a striptease is commonly known as a " stripper " or exotic dancer.

These included Flashdance ( 1983 ), which told the story of blue-collar worker Alexandra ( Alex ) Owens ( Jennifer Beals ), who works as an exotic dancer in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania bar at night and at a steel mill as a welder during the day.

Planet Terror ( 2007 ) stars Rose McGowan as Cherry Darling, a beautiful go-go dancer who aspires to quit her job.

Nijinsky appeared again with the company, but the old relationship between the men was never re-established ; moreover, Nijinsky's magic as a dancer was much diminished by incipient madness.

The part of Humphrey was played by Edwin Duryea, an actor, singer and dancer whose human identity was never revealed.

Backstage, as Vicky is waiting to make an entrance with the corps de ballet, he pronounces that: A dancer who relies upon the doubtful comforts of human love will never be a great dancer.

Balanchine compared him to Bach, describing him as " the most interesting, the most inventive, the most elegant dancer of our times ," while for Baryshnikov he was " a genius ... a classical dancer like I never saw in my life.

As he increased in weight, " Burke ’ s sheer bulk meant that he could never be a dancer like James Brown, but like Brown, his act was full of showmanship.

In 2012 he rebutted two longstanding rumors: one that he appeared as a soldier on a train in Biloxi Blues ( 1988 ), saying, " No. I don't know why that's on IMDb, but I never was in that ," and the other that he is related to dancer Lacey Schwimmer, saying, " No, not at all.

I have never heard of a butoh dancer entering a competition.

Balanchine never created a new work for Baryshnikov, though he did coach the young dancer in his distinctive style, and Baryshnikov triumphed in such signature roles as Apollo, Prodigal Son, and Rubies.

Nichols never identified the dancer as Juba, but later writers concluded that the boy was that performer.

Although a ring was exchanged, they never wed. She divorced her first husband, a dancer named Tom Ford, in 1917 after four very rocky years of marriage.

Following her divorce from Ford, Eva became romantically linked ( though never married, as was sometimes reported ) to a vaudeville dancer named Roscoe Ails.

This term has been borrowed from the Greek kinaidos ( which may itself have come from a language of Ionian Greece of Asia Minor, primarily signifying a purely effeminate dancer who entertained his audiences with a tympanum or tambourine in his hand, and adopted a lascivious style, often suggestively wiggling his buttocks in such a way as to suggest anal intercourse .... The primary meaning of cinaedus never died out ; the term never became a dead metaphor.

The dancer was to never make eye contact with her observers, and in the case that the movement required the dancer to face the audience, the eyes were to be averted from the audience or the head was to be involved in movement.

Two songs were never released: " 9 Lives " features a female chorus and was initially meant for Prince's dancer / vocalist Cat Glover.

Cubie never really sang with the group, but would grow up to be a popular dancer with the Dance Theater of Harlem etc.

After Alicia Markova, who had been scheduled to dance the title role, became sick, Hightower was called in as her replacement, and learned the part she had never danced before in some five hours of rehearsal with dancer / choreographer Anton Dolin.

Each dancer follows the ancient Oriental pattern -- she glides sideways with shoulders motionless while her stomach migrates, and, through breathing and muscle control, she sends ripples across her body to the fingertips and away to the far end of the room.

The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Guiler pursued his banking career and Nin began to pursue her interest in writing ; in her diaries she also mentions having trained as a flamenco dancer in Paris in the mid-to-late 1920s.

A car accident on October 13, 1937, damaged her legs and curtailed her prospects as a professional dancer.

After the dancer dropped one of her fans while trying to chase away a fly, Kaye was hired to be in charge of the fans so they were always held in front of her.

A third explanation is that the music allows for a greater degree of freedom of dance expression than other music of the time, and each dancer is free to create his or her own style.

Helene Bertha Amalie " Leni " Riefenstahl (; August 22, 1902 – September 8, 2003 ) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker.

Riefenstahl took dancing lessons and attended dance academies from an early age and began her career as a self-styled and well-known interpretive dancer, traveling around Europe and working with director Max Reinhardt in a show funded by Jewish producer Harry Sokal.

Their final film, entitled Love Happy ( 1949 ), featured Vera-Ellen, considered to be the best dancer among her colleagues and professionals in the half century.

Her next release was David Dhawan's Yaraana opposite Rishi Kapoor, in which she played a dancer on the run from her abusive lover.

These include the Emmy-nominated 1966 Frank Sinatra special A Man and His Music-Part II, and the 1967 NBC Emmy Award nominated for ' Special Classification of Individual Achievements ' by choreographer David Winters TV special Movin ' With Nancy, in which she appeared with Lee Hazlewood, her father and his Rat Pack pals Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr., with a cameo appearance by her brother Frank Sinatra, Jr. and guest star appearance by West Side Story dancer David Winters.

Beverly is also a talented dancer, having won trophies for her performances in the past.

In many of her films she acted alongside actors Hussein Fahmy, Roshdy Abaza, Nadia Lutfi and belly dancer Taheyya Kariokka.

Attempts to draw a confession that she had betrayed her dancer husband and had collaborated with the Nazis led to the use of a device employing a death mask of the dead patriot, which literally frightens her to death.