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Peggy Spencer (1920–2016), ballroom dancer, choreographer; Penelope Spencer (1901–1993), innovative free-style dancer and choreographer; Laurretta Summerscales, ballet dancer, principal dancer, Bavarian State Ballet; Lydia Thompson (1838–1908), stage dancer, burlesque actress, travelled widely across Europe and the United States
This is a list of female entertainers of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, in the 1920s. Dancers, choreographers, and orchestra leaders
Marilyn Miller (born Mary Ellen Reynolds; September 1, 1898 – April 7, 1936) was one of the most popular Broadway musical stars of the 1920s and early 1930s.She was an accomplished tap dancer, singer and actress, and the combination of these talents endeared her to audiences.
After the "flamboyant 1920s and the retrenchment of the 1930s," the bar was closed during the occupation of France by Germany during World War II. [1] It was one of the first lesbian clubs in the city. At its peak, Le Monocle was considered a luxurious club where "fashionable" women could dance, talk, and kiss without fearing judgment or ...
It became especially popular in the 1930s with the upsurge of aerials. The popularity of Lindy Hop declined after World War II, and it converted to other forms of dancing, but it never disappeared during the decades between the 1940s and the 1980s until European and American dancers revived it starting from the beginning of the 1980s. [1]
Swing dance became popular in the late 1920s and maintained its popularity into the 1940s and 1950s. [3] It faded away "with the birth of rock ‘n’ roll, [then] reemerged in the 1990s". [ 3 ] This was a form of self-expression.
In Hot Heels (1928) an Apache dance is performed by Glenn Tryon and Patsy Ruth Miller. In the 1929 Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Follies, a rooster and hen perform the dance, interrupting it partway through so the hen can rush to her nest and lay an egg. In Doughboys Buster Keaton in drag dances the woman's part in an Apache dance.
Josephine Baker dancing the Charleston at the Folies-Bergere in Paris – Negro Dance Revue (1926). In the 1920s, Parisian nightlife was greatly influenced by American culture. One of its greatest influences was the ragtime called jazz , which became very popular in Paris.