Only, they carefully substituted old country folk dances for the Virginia Reels and square dances that were so popular among more worldly trains in the great westward migration.

At that time it was a series of sophisticated social dances whose steps were often combined with other steps devised by the choreographer.

Brief snips of actual events were shown: parades, dances, street scenes.

As Brother John Sellers sang five `` blues '' to the guitar and drum accompaniments of Bruce Langhorne and Shep Shepard, Mr. Ailey and Miss De Lavallade went through volatile dances that were by turns insinuating, threatening, contemptuous and ecstatic.

People decorated their homes and trees with paper flags ; there were ritual races, processions, dances, songs, prayers, and finally human sacrifices.

Shakers today are most known for their cultural contributions ( especially style of music and furniture ). The Shakers composed thousands of songs, and also created many dances ; both were an important part of the Shaker worship services.

These masks were used from ceremonies to dances to praises, each with its own meaning and purpose.

These boundaries have since become blurred, and it should be noted even in times long gone, many ballroom dances were really elevated folk dances.

Among the dances described were the solemn basse danse, the livelier branle, pavane, and the galliarde which Shakespeare called the " cinq pace " as it was made of five steps.

Ballads were originally composed to accompany dances, and so were composed in couplets with refrains in alternate lines.

The general picture seems to be that during most of the 17th century, a style of hip hop was of late Renaissance dance was widespread, but as time progressed, French ballroom dances such as the minuet were widely adopted at fashionable courts.

While living in Hall County, Texas they also played at ' ranch dances ' which were popular in both North Texas and eastern New Mexico.

In 1945 Wills ' dances were outdrawing those of Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman, and he had moved to Fresno, California.

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.

As time progressed, English country dances were spread and reinterpreted throughout the Western world, and eventually the French form of the name came to be associated with the American folk dances, especially in New England ( this Gallicized name change may have followed a contemporary misbelief that the form was originally French ).

Contra dances were fashionable in the United States until the early to mid-19th century, when they were supplanted in popularity by square dances ( such as the quadrille and lancers ) and couple dances ( such as the waltz and polka ).

At 6:00 p.m. we went to the Kyoto Spring dances at the place where these beautiful dances originated.

So, for that matter, are the newer dances -- the `` Kalmuk Dance '' with its animal movements, that genial juggling act by Sergei Tsvetkov called `` The Platter '', the rousing and beautiful betrothal celebration called `` Summer '', `` The Three Shepherds '' of Azerbaijan hopping up on their staffs, and, of course, the trenchant `` Rock 'n' Roll ''.

And after they have washed their tender skin in Permessus or Hippocrene or holy Olmeidus, they perform choral dances on highest Helicon, beautiful, lovely ones, and move nimbly with their feet.

When she possesses her followers, she dances, flirts and then weeps-because no one can love her enough and the world is not as beautiful as she knows it could be.

The theatre was famous not only for its orchestra, but also for the beautiful Palace Girls, for whom Finck composed many dances.

In the scene at the palace of Louis XVI, we have a great deal of traditional mime, and Marie Antoinette dances a minuet which is a beautiful piece of choreography in itself.

* Scent of a Woman ( 1992 )-Al Pacino's character, who is blind, dances the tango with a beautiful woman and is captivated by the scent of her perfume during the tango's close embrace.

Le Bon slow dances with, and attempts to woo, a beautiful woman who eventually leaves him.

The dances are particularly energetic and flowing in style, with beautiful tunes.

* Izgryala E Mesechinka ( The moon has risen ): A beautiful song from Northern ( Bulgarian ) Thrace that has inspired many choreographies, all of them with extensive arm work that is typical in dances from this region.

Their traditional dances appear attractive and gentle full of passion for life, making the Dusun culture a popular and beautiful one, and much sought by tourists to Sabah.

The ball begins and Baron Zeta dances with his beautiful wife.

Swaggering parades provided feasts, dances, the exhibition of beautiful bodies, and the physical strength of both men and women.

At a celebration party that night, Mal dances with a beautiful young woman, who gives him a wreath and wine, as an old man gives Jayne a rain stick made from wood.

She received very positive reviews for the role from, for example, The Stage, which commented " The beautiful Haynes Sisters are delightfully played by Suzanne Shaw as Judy, who sings and dances with ease with talented Rachel Stanley as her sister Betty ", The Lancashire Evening Post which stated " Former Hearsay star, Suzanne Shaw is a revelation, dancing, singing and acting with seasoned aplomb ".

* " You're All The World To Me ": In one of his best known solos, Astaire dances on the walls and ceilings of his room because he has fallen in love with a beautiful woman who also loves to dance.

* In dances without obligatory body contact ( Latin, swing, hustle, American Smooth ), free spin recovers from anything.

Queen Elizabeth I of England is noted to have been entertained by " Country Dancing ," although the relationship of the dances she saw to the surviving dances of the mid-17th century is disputed.

I just say that if a man dances effeminately he dances badly — just as if a woman comes out on stage and starts to sing bass.

His work inspired the New England Transcendentalists, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, who declared in 1843 that, in reading Proclus, " I am filled with hilarity & spring, my heart dances, my sight is quickened, I behold shining relations between all beings, and am impelled to write and almost to sing.

It has all the crazy stuff that I listen to, and my collections I've been making since the ' 70s for going on the road, when I'm sick ... Or the couple of times in my life that I have really been down, music is what always dances me out of bed.

spisy I, 256 ) in the area of Hradec Králové, the tune Krakoviáky from the collection Slovanské národní písně of František Ladislav Čelakovský became very popular so that it was used to dance ( Czech dances ) třasák, břitva kvapík, and this way was called " Polka ".

John Chapman of the Daily News enjoyed the dances but thought there were too many and that they interrupted the story: " Just when I get pleasently steamed up about the love of Mr. Brooks and Miss Bell, I don't want to be cooled off by watching a herd of gazelles from Chorus Equity running around ".

::(" I am the Empire at the end of the decadence, who watches the large, white barbarians passing, while composing lazy acrostic poems in a gilded style in which the languor of the sun dances.

The Legionaires who staffed the dances included Johnny Johnson, a veteran of World War I, who dabbed the hands of a generation with an ink only visible under ultraviolet light.

The World War I songs played by Schroeder on his toy piano while Snoopy dances are:

The Gurdjieff movements are the name given to the collective body of sacred dances that were collected or authored by G. I. Gurdjieff and taught to his students as part of the work of self observation and self study.

In his performances, he often used the I Ching in order to determine the sequence of his dances and, often, dancers were not told until the night of the performance.

One 1774 account states that " Betwixt the country dances they have what I call everlasting Jigs.

But I adored the thread of pearls provided by Argentina's castanets, when she would come as my lessons with him were fnishing to rehearse the wonderful dances of her first recitals at number 27, rue Henri-Heine.

Mabel enters dressed as one of Sennett's famous bathing beauties and dances a youthful Charleston to " That's How Young I Feel " before reprising " Look What Happened to Mabel " backed by Mack, the cameraman, a stage manager and a few extras.

On screen, Robbins recreated his stage dances for The King and I ( 1956 ) and shared the Best Director Oscar with Robert Wise for the film version of West Side Story ( 1961 ).

Brode cites the reply of Mary to the older Catherine of Aragon who is shocked by this dance: " Shall I not have what music and dances I like at my own ball ?".

' I did my Mule Walk or ' Gut Stomp ' for these country dances.

The 1996 song " Lazybones " by Soul Coughing ( with lead singer Mike Doughty ) refers to " Cameraman sways to remember how the eye dances, drunkenness is a hand-held scrambling down Delancey, I come stumbling ".