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Ann-Margret Olsson, Swedish-American woman who is famous for dancing, acting and singing in many American motion pictures, including Viva Las Vegas. Simona Orinska (born August 18, 1978), only butoh artist in Latvia and a multidisciplinary artist: contemporary dancer, poet, director and choreographer of many art projects. She is also a Dance ...
Bahram V, King of Persia . Gara Garayev: Seven Beauties; Giovanni Boldini, Italian genre and portrait painter . Lorenzo Ferrero: Franca Florio, regina di Palermo; William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid), frontier outlaw in the American Old West
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. One list of Fad Dances compiled in 1971 named over ninety dances. [1] Standardized versions of dance moves were published in dance and teen magazines, often choreographed to popular
Ida Herion (1896–1959), modernist dance teacher in Stuttgart; Carolina Hermann (born 1988), ice dancer; Reinhild Hoffmann (born 1966), show dancer; Hanya Holm (1893–1992), major contributor to modern dance in the United States, especially Broadway musicals; Dore Hoyer (1911–1967), expressionist dancer, choreographer, teacher, associate of ...
Dance Panels, Aaron Copland, 1963; Dance Preludes, to music by Witold Lutosławski, 1991; Dances at a Gathering, to music by Frédéric Chopin, 1969; Danses concertantes, to music by Igor Stravinsky, 1955; Daphnis et Chloé, Maurice Ravel, 1912; The Daughter of the Snows, Ludwig Minkus, 1879; Delight of the Muses, Charles Wuorinen, 1992
Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo a.k.a. "Nappytabs" - dance teachers, choreographers, and creative directors; Isadora Duncan - "mother of modern dance" Katherine Dunham - pioneer of black dance, anthropologist, dancer, choreographer, creator of the Dunham Technique; Aurélie Dupont - French ballet dancer and artistic director of Paris Opera Ballet
This is a list of dance categories, different types, styles, or genres of dance. For older and more region-oriented vernacular dance styles, see List of ethnic, regional, and folk dances by origin .
Character dance is a specific subdivision of classical dance. It is the stylized representation of a traditional folk or national dance, mostly from European countries, and uses movements and music which have been adapted for the theater. Character dance is integral to much of the classical ballet repertoire.