If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

The only factors that are personally set by the choreographer are the movements themselves, the number of the dancers, and the approximate total duration of the dance.

The New York dancers are highly eclectic, varying the pattern with all kinds of personal improvisations, back bends or floor crawls.

Although they are forbidden to sit with the customers, the dancers are sometimes proffered drinks, and most of them can bolt one down in mid-shimmy.

But a great many of the dancers are more or less native.

Many belly dancers are married, but Serene is one of the few who will admit it.

The Russians are all trained as dancers before they start to study gymnastics.

Not that it is all funny, by any means, though some of it is definitely so, but simply that the dancers are young and handsome, high-spirited and communicative, and the program itself is as vivacious as it is varied.

Students are often performers, such as actors, dancers, musicians, athletes and public speakers, or people who work on computers, or who are in frequent pain for other reasons.

In competitions, the women are often dressed in short-skirted latin outfits while the men are outfitted in tight-fitting shirts and pants, the goal being to emphasize the dancers ' leg action and body movements.

At most dances, no special outfits are worn, but " peasant skirts " or other full, lightweight skirts are popular, as these have a very pretty effect when swinging or twirling and some dancers find them more comfortable to dance in than pants.

As will necessarily be the case when beginners are welcomed in by more practiced dancers, mistakes are made ; most dancers are very willing to help beginners, and will often go out of their way to give extra instructions to help them learn the steps.

Minor sets originate at the head of the set, starting with the topmost dancers as the 1's ( the active couple or actives ); the other couple are 2's ( or inactives ).

There are three common ways of arranging dancers in the minor sets: proper formation, improper formation, and Becket formation.

" Dis moi, que tu m ' aimes " was accompanied by a group of male dancers and aired on TV on 9 July 1967.

The statue is accompanied by dancers and street entertainers, and different political and religious authorities including the city mayor.

Nowadays it is a parade of 15-20 people, with 3-5 dancers and a singer accompanied by wooden flutes, drums and bells.

The three-day festivities include a dance of over one thousand synchronized traditional dancers ; the carrying of over one hundred small shrines ; and the parading of a dozen or so large, hand-constructed floats depicting historical, fictional, or mythical scenes and accompanied by drummers, flautists, and lantern-carriers.

English Elizabethan clown Will Kempe dancing a jig from Norwich to London in 1600A morris dance is a type of English folk dance, usually accompanied by music, and based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers, often using implements such as sticks, swords, and handkerchiefs.

In order to practise her performance, she played at a church wedding, and accompanied dancers at Blackpool Tower.

During the year, the image visits homes and hospitals, accompanied by Chinelos dancers.

To promote the single on BBC's Top Of The Pops, the performer was accompanied by two Wigan Casino dancers.

* The music video for Duffy's 2008 song " Mercy " features Duffy singing on a platform, accompanied by northern soul dancers performing elaborate moves.

There were also male dancers, named Köçek, who took part in the entertainment shows and celebrations, accompanied by circus acrobats, named Cambaz, performing difficult tricks, and other shows which attracted curiosity.

She wore a black kaftan made of chiffon and energetically danced, accompanied by six male dancers, with a platform full of votive candles in the background.

In Cuba, the party may include a choreographed group dance, in which 14 couples waltz around the quinceañera, who is accompanied by one of the main dancers, a boy of her choice, her boyfriend or friends of rights.

During the Heian period, the Saiō-Dai and the Imperial messenger would be accompanied by ten dancers and twelve musicians.

Groups of choreographed dancers and musicians known as ren ( 連 ) dance through the streets, typically accompanied by the shamisen lute, taiko drums, shinobue flute and the kane bell.

He was accompanied variously by nuns on roller-skates, Morris dancers, Roman soldiers.

The socially aware or satirical lyrics are usually performed by a female singer called a chantwell, and is accompanied by dancers in colorful skirts and headresses.

Jwé chanté and listwa are purely vocal styles with no accompaniment, nor any traditional dance ; the other two are typically accompanied by a ka drum or sometimes the tibwa percussion sticks, which provides a rhythm for dancers.

There are generally three jumbie dancers in a unit, who perform accompanied by the babala ( tambourine, or jumbie drum ), triangle, fife or pulley ( accordion, concertina or melodeon ), and most importantly the French reel ( also jumbie drum or woowoo ), a skin drum that produces an ominous sound which is said to attract the jumbie spirits.

Stilt dancers in robes, called the Moko jumbie, Jumpa-Ben or Long Ghosts, were also common, and were accompanied by kettle and bass drums, fife, triangle ( cling-a-ching ) and the boompipe, made from a plumbing joint one meter long.

Traditional dances in Doha are performed on Friday afternoons ; one such dance is the Ardah, a stylized martial dance performed by two rows of dancers who are accompanied by an array of percussion instruments, including al-ras ( a large drum whose leather is heated by an open fire ), tambourine and cymbals, along with small drums.

Near the end of that year they appeared on FX ’ s Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular accompanied by Penn & Teller's show dancers, which aired in January 1999.

On 13 September Siddharta, accompanied by the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra and 60 dancers, played before a crowd of over 30, 000 people and a few thousand who could not get in as the concert had been sold out way in advance.

Typically, it consists of two large choruses engaging in call-and-response vocals, accompanied by instrumentalists and dancers.

Their shows are always accompanied by world-class step dancers on stage.

He seeks to make his dancers more `` godlike '' by relating them to the impersonal elements of shape, light, color, and sound.

`` Signal '' is choreographed for three male dancers to an electronic score by Alwin Nikolais.

These refrains would have been sung by the dancers in time with the dance.

The French noble style was danced both at social events and by professional dancers in theatrical productions such as opera-ballets and court entertainments.

Wills also broke an attendance record of 2, 100 previously held by Jan Garbner at the Armory in Klamath Falls, Oregon, by attracting 2, 514 dancers.

At the end of the 17th century, English country dances were taken up by French dancers ; hybrid choreographies exist from this period using the steps from French court dance in English dances.

Other gender-free dance groups started up in the area after that, and in 1989, at the gender-free dance group in Jamaica Plain, MA, a group of dancers led by Janet Dillon protested the use of these terms, and the armband system was devised: the traditionally male-role dancers would wear armbands and be called " armbands " or just " bands ," and the traditionally female-role dancers would be called " bare arms " or just " bares.

The caller gives the instructions orally, and sometimes augments them with demonstrations of steps by experienced dancers in the group.

Dance categories by number of interacting dancers are mainly solo dance, partner dance and group dance.

Dancesport coaches are tournament dancers or former dancesports people, and may be recognised by a dance sport federation.

Professional dancers began to take the place of court amateurs, and ballet masters were licensed by the French government.

Other prominent European pop and disco groups were Luv ' from the Netherlands and Boney M, a group of four West Indian singers and dancers masterminded by West German record producer Frank Farian.

A danse macabre painting may show a round dance headed by Death or a chain of alternating dead and live dancers.

The famous Totentanz by Bernt Notke in Lübeck ’ s Marienkirche ( destroyed during the Allied Bombing of Lübeck in World War II ) presented the dead dancers as very lively and agile, making the impression that they were actually dancing, whereas their living dancing partners looked clumsy and passive.

Siding-two dancers, partners by default if not otherwise specified, go forward in four counts to meet side by side, then back in four counts to where they started the figure.

* New dancers often learn informally by observing others and / or receiving help from others.

It was Prince who changed the title to Follies ; he was " intrigued by the psychology of a reunion of old chorus dancers and loved the play on the word ' follies '".