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The Kinks in 1967. Already heralded by Colin MacInnes' 1959 novel Absolute Beginners which captured London's emerging youth culture, [10] Swinging London was underway by the mid-1960s and included music by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, Small Faces, the Animals, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw and other artists from what was known in the US as the ...
She was a British cultural icon and a prominent teenage model during the swinging '60s in London. Twiggy was initially known for her thin build and the androgynous appearance considered to result from her big eyes, long eyelashes, and short hair. [1] [2] She was named "The Face of 1966" by the Daily Express [3] and voted British Woman of the ...
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 ...
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In the 1950s and especially the 1960s, there was an explosion of new dance teams, some of them women's or mixed sides. At the time, there was often heated debate over the propriety and even legitimacy of women dancing the Morris, even though there is evidence as far back as the 16th century that there were female Morris dancers. [33]
The marriage ended in divorce in 1947. Peggy formed a close relationship with her brother-in-law Frank, whom she eventually married in the late 1960s. [2] For many years, she and Frank (a musician and a dancer before the Second World War) ran the Royston Ballroom in Penge, South London. Peggy was a regular TV dance commentator.
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.
Pages in category "English female dancers" The following 120 pages are in this category, out of 120 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Jay Aston; B.