Other dances, such as the lindy hop with its relationship to rock and roll music and rock and roll dance have also had a global influence.

An example of this is that during a down time of jazz dancing from 1945 – 1954, when big bands and dance halls were declining, the vernacular of the dance followed less jazz music and leaned more toward rock and roll, creating moves like " The Monkey " and " The Jerk ".

Some historians of music have pointed to important and innovative developments that built on rock and roll in this period, including multitrack recording, developed by Les Paul, the electronic treatment of sound by such innovators as Joe Meek, and the Wall of Sound productions of Phil Spector, continued desegregation of the charts, the rise of surf music, garage rock and the Twist dance craze.

From its early-1950s beginning through the early 1960s, rock and roll music spawned new dance crazes.

From the mid-1960s on, as " rock and roll " yielded gradually to " rock ", later dance genres followed, starting with the twist, and leading up to funk, disco, house, techno, and hip hop.

* A rock and roll dance with a DJ

Jazz music and tap dance declined, while rock and roll and pop music and the new jazz dance emerged.

* Acrobatic Rock ' n ' Roll Popular in Europe, acrobatic rock ' n ' roll is popularly associated with Russian gymnasts who took up the dance, though it is popular throughout Europe today.

As a result, the music integrated waltz, shuffles, two-steps, blues, rock and roll, and other dance music forms of the era.

When rock and roll first emerged in the early 1950s, record companies were uncertain as to what style of dance would be most applicable to the music.

Some people run through the church aisles, dance in the spirit, roll in the floor, which coined the term " holy rollers ".

His work has included songs in the adult contemporary, rock and roll, dance, pop, musical theater, and film score genres.

Modern Jive is a dance style derived from swing, Lindy Hop, rock and roll, salsa and others, the main innovation being to simplify the footwork-by removing syncopation such as chasse.

They stated that " Winter Passing " was "... a slow dance like the last song at your 8th grade dance moves more like an R & B tune than a rock and roll song ", and that " Carpathia " will include the first bass solos in any Taking Back Sunday song.

Rock and roll music and dance sequences were occasionally mixed with the action.

The Twist was a dance inspired by rock and roll music.

The basic showband repertoire included standard dance numbers, cover versions of pop music hits, ranging from rock and roll, country and western to jazz standards.

When the dance first appeared in the early 19th century, it was considered little more than a scandalous activity that young people indulged in, similar to how rock and roll would be perceived later in the 1950s.

As the initial wave of rock and roll declined in the later 1950s " big beat " music, later shortened to " beat ", became a live dance alternative to the balladeers like Tommy Steele, Marty Wilde and Cliff Richard who were dominating the charts.

** Twist ( dance ), a rock and roll dance named after the song

The third edition rules replace specialized matrices with the Action Control Table ( ACT ), a single, color-coded chart that allowed players to determine whether a character action succeeded, and the degree of success, with a single roll.

Instead of choosing a character class, a player must roll a twenty-sided die two times and consult an accompanying character origin table.

This made the Amiga particularly attractive as a character generator for titling videos and broadcast work, as it avoided the use and expense of AB roll and chromakey units that would be required without the genlock support.

Then the players roll randomly for a certain number of defects, character age, and characteristics.

So while in a conventional game the announcement that one's character is going to leap over a seven-meters-wide canyon will be greeted with the request to roll a number of dice, a player in a storytelling game who wishes to have a character perform a similar feat will have to convince the others ( especially the storyteller ) why it is both probable and keeping within the established traits of their character to successfully do so.

Players roll randomly for these characteristics ( typically on 2d6 ) during character creation.

A de-facto skill system exists in the form of " character classes " which give numerical bonuses to certain activities if their role called for it ( for instance, a pilot having a + 1 modifier on their roll to fly an aircraft ).

What would be different character classes in a game like D & D were covered by different talents instead ; for example the thief talent would allow a player to roll against their dexterity to pick a pocket or open a lock.

One British character says to another, " Let's roll.

If the name has an Indo-European etymology, it is possibly a suffixed form of a root * wel-" to turn, roll ", or of * sel-" to flow, run ".< ref > The American Heritage Dictionary, " Indo-European roots: wel < sup > ₂ </ sup >"</ ref > The latter possibility would allow comparison to the Vedic Sanskrit Saraṇyū, a character who is abducted in Rigveda 10. 17. 2.

Waldrop's stories combine elements such as alternate history, American popular culture, the American South, old movies ( and character actors ), classical mythology, and rock ' n ' roll music.

His character Eugene sat at a table to eat his lunch, but as he removed items one at a time from a lunch box, he watched them inexplicably roll down the table into the lap of a man reading a newspaper at the other end.

When attaining a new level the character can increase an attribute by one point, and either the attack or parry value by one point ; he also wins vitality points equal to one die roll, or vitality or astral energy points equal to one die roll for elves and mages.

It allows for efficient animation of skeletal chains, such as a character ’ s spine or tail, and includes easy-to-use twist and roll controls.

When a challenge presents itself to the characters, they roll a number of dice determined by the statistics of their character with a difficulty assigned by the storyteller.

* To Court the King uses a similar roll and re-roll mechanic to Yahtzee with the added mechanic of using dice to claim character cards that give the player various abilities to manipulate their dice rolls.

For example, if a character is making a Dexterity check, and has three Dots filled under their Dexterity Attribute, they roll 3d10 ( or three ten-sided dice ) when a check is called upon.

Five or more Successes in a roll is a Exceptional success and usually something very beneficial happens for the character, above what they had expected.

The character is still allowed a single d10 die roll, called a Chance Roll, to see if sheer blind luck or divine intervention allows them to succeed.

For every Success a character has on their Attack roll against an opponent, they inflict one Health Point of Damage upon the target.

If eggs accidentally roll out of the nest both sexes will retrieve the egg using the neck ( in other swan species only the female performs this feat ).

The mantis shrimp then performs a forward flip in an attempt to roll towards the next tide pool.

The Queen's Players is a sketch comedy / improvisation / rock and roll troupe that performs at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario in Clark Hall pub, Alfie's pub, and Time To Laugh Comedy Club.

However, for continuous, large-volume lamination projects, a roll laminator performs more efficiently.

The Red Elvises ( also known as " Igor and Red Elvises ", after founding member and bandleader Igor Yuzov ) are a Russian-American band that performs rock & roll, surf, rockabilly, reggae, lounge and traditional Russian styles of music.

The attacking wrestler then performs a backward roll while holding the waistlock.

Billing themselves as " from the streets of New York " and outfitted in gold lamé, leather jackets, and pompadour hairdos, Sha Na Na performs a song and dance repertoire of classic fifties rock and roll, simultaneously reviving and sending up the music and 1950s New York street culture.

Legendary performer and rock ' n ' roll icon Chuck Berry performs there every third Wednesday of each month, downstairs in the Duck Room.