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The Animal Dance craze was directly related with the popularity of ragtime music (improvisational melodies with syncopated beats, from African-American traditions). There were an endless varieties of animal dance fads, such as: Horse Trot, Kangaroo Hop, Duck Waddle, Squirrel, Chicken Scratch , Turkey Trot , and Grizzly Bear .
Many 1950s and 1960s dance crazes had animal names, including "The Chicken" (not to be confused with the Chicken Dance), "The Pony" and "The Dog". In 1965, Latin group Cannibal and the Headhunters had a hit with the 1962 Chris Kenner song Land of a Thousand Dances which included the names of such dances.
The video was directed by fashion photographer Bruce Weber. Stephanie Seymour appeared in music videos for Guns N' Roses, in the early 1990s. Tawny Kitaen appeared in several of Whitesnake's music videos in the late 1980s. Tyra Banks appeared in George Michael's "Too Funky" music video in 1992, alongside supermodel Linda Evangelista and others.
Snowball (hatched c. 1996) is a male Eleonora cockatoo, noted as being the first non-human animal conclusively demonstrated to be capable of beat induction: [1] perceiving music and synchronizing his body movements to the beat (i.e. dancing). He currently holds the Guinness World Record for most dance moves by a bird. [2]
Anita Mann (born October 21, 1946) is an American choreographer, dancer and actress.Mann has been honored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences as one of America's top five contemporary choreographers.
Elizabeth Aldrich (born February 26, 1947) is an American dance historian, choreographer, writer, lecturer, consultant, administrator, curator, and archivist. [1] She is internationally known for her research, performance, choreography, teaching, and lectures on Renaissance and Baroque court dance, nineteenth-century social dance, and twentieth-century ragtime dance.
The Dying Swan (originally The Swan) is a solo dance choreographed by Mikhail Fokine to Camille Saint-Saëns's Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux as a pièce d'occasion for the ballerina Anna Pavlova, who performed it about 4,000 times.
The video was reposted by large accounts on several social media platforms, including Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar – who invited her to Ireland to dance in the 2021 Saint Patrick's Day parade [4] – Beyoncé's mother Tina Knowles, Irish-Nigerian author Emma Dabiri, and the large Instagram account The Shade Room.