The Jesus and Mary Chain wrapped their pop melodies in walls of guitar noise, while New Order emerged from the demise of post-punk band Joy Division and experimented with techno and house music, forging the alternative dance style.

They sounded at times like post-punk / dance group New Order, and a summation of this stage of their career can be found on their first studio album, Where It Is, which is a compilation of previously released material, consisting of singles and related B-Sides, pressed onto one individual long playing work.

They were forerunners of the post-punk revival of the early 2000s, as they mixed their early post-punk sound with electronic and dance elements.

The Jesus and Mary Chain wrapped their pop melodies in walls of guitar noise, while New Order emerged from the demise of post-punk band Joy Division and experimented with techno and house music, forging the alternative dance style.

My Disco's music has been classified as minimalist, indie-rock, post-punk, and dance music amongst others.

At the same time, and out of the same post-punk of Joy Division combining rock, pop, and dance music to earn much critical acclaim while selling millions of records.

" Louden Up Now sees the group continue to meld funky dance rhythms with post-punk influences.

Naming themselves Mandalay, the duo began to write and circulate demo tapes, displaying emergent songs which blended Hitchcock's emotional honesty and melodic sensibilities with Freeman's textured arrangements ( which featured elements of trip-hop, dance smoothness and post-punk avant-garde textures ).

Early in her solo career she was also noted for her commercial dance pop stylings with a funky edge.

His vocal stylings and trademark dance movements were widely imitated by the impressionists of the era.

Wills turned out dance tunes that are now called country rock, introducing with his Texas Playboys such C & W classics as Take Me Back to Tulsa and New San Antonio Rose ".

* Bay Area Country Dance Society promotes, preserves, and teaches traditional English and American music and dance in the San Francisco Bay area.

Northern California freestyle, mainly from San Francisco and San Jose, leans towards a high-tempo dance beat similar to Hi-NRG.

In response, eight women in San Francisco met in their living rooms in 1955 to socialize and have a place to dance.

In 2004, the Russian Cossack folk dance had nine concerts in Port of Spain, San Fernando, Couva, and Tobago

* BACDS-The Bay Area Country Dance Society-promotes, preserves, and teaches traditional English and American music and dance in the San Francisco Bay area.

Attended by approximately 1, 000 of the Bay Area's original " hippies ", this was San Francisco's first psychedelic rock performance, costumed dance and light show, featuring Jefferson Airplane, The Great Society and The Marbles.

* Western Star Dancers-A modern GLBT square dance and social club in San Francisco.

While it is considered by most as the gay area of San Diego with its gay bars and dance clubs, the overall population of the area has only gotten more and more diverse with the rise in condominium projects.

The first was the historic dance at the Longshoremen's Hall in San Francisco on October 16, 1965, the first of many ' happenings ' in the Bay Area, where Gleason first saw them perform.

He vowed that if his son would become healthy that he would build and dance a Giglio like the people of Nola do for their patron San Paolino during the annual Fest Dei Gigli.

After a start as a classical violinist and violist, he led a jazz-influenced dance band, which became popular locally in San Francisco, California in 1918.

The Mission was a stopping place for miners coming from Los Angeles to San Francisco, and was consequently was used as a saloon, dance hall, storeroom and living quarters.

It is thought that the wearing of bandanas by gay men originated in San Francisco after the Gold Rush, when, because of a shortage of women, men dancing with each other in square dances developed a code wherein the man wearing the blue bandana took the male part in the square dance, and the man wearing the red bandana took the female part ( these bandanas were usually worn around the arm or hanging from the belt or in the back pocket of one's jeans ).

The Texas Tommy Swing dance first appeared in print in 1910 in San Francisco ( Barbary Coast ).

Modern swing dance bands active in the U. S. during the 1990s and 2000s include many contemporary jazz big bands, swing revival bands with a national presence such as Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers ( based in San Francisco ), and local / regional jazz bands that specialize in 1930s-1940s swing / Lindy dance music, such as The Swingout Big Band, White Heat Swing Orchestra, and Beantown Swing Orchestra ( Boston ), The Boilermaker Jazz Band ( Pittsburgh ), the Southside Aces ( Minneapolis ), Gordon Webster Septet ( New York ), Jonathan Stout and His Campus Five ( Los Angeles ) and The Jonathan Stout Orchestra featuring Hilary Alexander ( Los Angeles ), The Flat Cats ( Chicago ), The Gina Knight Orchestra ( Chicago and Joliet, IL ), the Solomon Douglas Swingtet and the Tom Cunningham Orchestra ( Washington, D. C .), Sonoran Swing ( Arizona ), and The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra ( Los Angeles ).

Hammer also released a single called " Ring ' Em ", and largely on the strength of tireless street marketing by Hammer and his wife, it achieved considerable popularity at dance clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A number of significant annual events are held at San Anton Gardens, including the Malta Horticultural Show, and open-air theatre, dance and musical performances.

* Om Records, a San Francisco-based dance music record label, home to artist like J Boogie, Kaskade, and King Kooba

They starred at Crescendo Interlude on Sunset Strip with Joey Dee and the Starlighters, the Teen Age Fair at Pacific Ocean Park, the after party for the 1963 Academy Awards, The Bob Eubanks TV Dance Party, and every Friday night the house dance party band in San Bernardino, California Civic Auditorium.

The 1961 " San Francisco Stomp " meets the definition of a line dance.

Angelou and Ailey formed a dance team, calling themselves " Al and Rita ", and performed Modern Dance at fraternal Black organizations throughout San Francisco, but never became successful.

Angelou, her new husband, and son moved to New York City so that she could study African dance with Trinidadian dancer Pearl Primus, but they returned to San Francisco a year later.

Professional lightning struck in the form of the psychedelic rock and roll poster for San Francisco's dance halls and clubs.

A non profit organization, Theatre Bay Area has members from more than 365 Bay Area theatre and dance companies, is the publisher of Callboard Magazine, and runs San Francisco's Half-Priced Ticket Booth.

Every dance, no matter what style, has something in common.

Every individual style of jazz dance has roots traceable to one of these two distinct origins.

" With Every Heartbeat ", " Handle Me " and " Cobrastyle " were top ten club hits, and the former received airplay at US pop and dance radio stations.

Every summer the group gathers in Newport, RI for week long dance training, seaside teas, and evenings enjoying the splendors of the Gilded Age.

Every dance is explained before the participants dance it, unless everyone present is familiar with it.

Every fourth Sunday in July, the Portuguese community in Benicia celebrates the feast of the Holy Ghost, commemorating the Queen Saint Isabel of Portugal, with a parade to Saint Dominic's Church followed by mass, an auction and a dance.

Every month, Casino Le Touquet hosts a dinner and dance cabaret.

Every July the town hosts a Culture Camp in which Aleut traditions such as dance, sewing Aleut dresses, playing drums, building kayaks, knot tying, and weaving are taught.

Every September, the Carmel International Arts Festival features a juried art exhibit of artists from around the world, concerts, dance performances, and hands-on activities for children.

Every Wednesday through the summer, the town's main street is shut down for the turtle races and other attractions, such as food stands, games, and dance contests.

Every year, the town holds a celebration of Depot Days, which includes a pancake breakfast, parade, cake walk, karaoke on the street, street vendors, night time street dance and numerous other activities.

Every episode features a different topic, from a dance track to a love ballad, that requires the contestants to write and perform lyrics from a multiple of genres, for a cash prize of $ 100, 000, a publishing deal with songwriting collective The Writing Camp, and a recording deal with RCA / Jive label.

Every year on the equivalent date to the 23rd of March on the Chinese Calendar, the birthday of Mazu is commemorated with concerts, lion dance, Carrying god ride ' Kheng kiu ', ' siam hee ' and also wayang kulit show for three days.

Every week everyone in the community would gather at The Hive for a dance of the young ladies of the community.

Every school in Yasothon trains its pupils to dance " Peun Muang ", a traditional local dance so they can join the parade at the annual rocket festival.

Every year, in numerical sequence starting from 2007-07-07 and continuing through 2012-12-12 hoopers dance in every city and country to raise money and donate hoops to others who can't afford them.

Every way that any human being of any race or nationality, at any period of human history, has moved rhythmically to express himself, belongs to the dance.

Every year the Festival showcases three exhilarating weeks of the very best in international music, theatre, opera and dance.

Every Saturday night, with the exception of the first, a dance is held on campus in the Upper Arts Building, ( commonly referred to as the " Upper AB ").

Every state has its own folk dance forms like Garba, Gagari ( dance ), Ghodakhund in Gujarat, Kalbelia, Ghoomar, Rasiya in Rajasthan, Neyopa, Bacha Nagma in Jammu and Kashmir, Bhangra & Giddha in Punjab, Sambalpuri Dance in Western Orissa and likewise for each state and smaller regions in it.

Every acrobatic and dance skill is listed, illustrated and assigned a specific difficulty rating.

Skills: Every acrobatic and dance element was awarded a specific difficulty rating, ranging from A ( easiest ) to Super E ( hardest ) in the Table of Elements.