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Bootleg turn. A bootleg turn is a driving maneuver intended to reverse the direction of travel of a forward-moving automobile by 180 degrees in a minimum amount of time while staying within the width of a two-lane road. [1] This maneuver is also known as a smuggler's turn, powerslide, or simply bootlegger.
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Барышников, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil bɐ'rɨʂnʲɪkəf]; Latvian: Mihails Barišņikovs; born January 27, 1948) [1] is a Latvian-American dancer, choreographer, and actor. [2] He was the preeminent male classical ballet dancer of the 1970s and 1980s. He ...
Arlington College (1895–1902) The first building on the campus of Arlington College under construction. Arlington College was founded in September 1895 by Lee M. Hammond and William M. Trimble. [1][2][3] At the time, Arlington was a small rural North Texas town with a population of about 1,000 people. [1][4] Its public schools were ...
Taylor left Arlington, and the property owners hired John B. Dodson to establish a third military academy for the 1916–1917 school year called Arlington Military Academy. Enrollment was apparently very low, [14] and Arlington Military Academy closed after one year. The Science Building at the North Texas Agricultural College in 1941.
Cross-body lead is a common and useful move in Latin dances such as salsa, mambo, rumba and cha-cha-cha. Basically, the leader, on counts 2 and 3 of their basic step (assuming dancing on 1), does a quarter-left turn (90° counter-clockwise) while still holding on to the follower. On counts 4 and 5, the follower is led forward across the leader ...
Ballet (French: [balɛ]) is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary. Ballet has been influential globally and has defined the ...
Turn (dance and gymnastics) A turning Flamenco dancer. In dance and gymnastics, a turn is a rotation of the body about the vertical axis. It is usually a complete rotation of the body, although quarter (90°) and half (180°) turns are possible for some types of turns. Multiple, consecutive turns are typically named according to the number of ...
There was a particular problem with Shakespearean plays that required so many changes of scenery that some runs were as long as one could imagine a 20-act play would be. Using the revolving stage, the scene changes were a fraction of their previous length. It only took the time to rotate a 1/4 or even a 1/6 way around the circular stage.