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Sand dancing was a specialty act for many vaudeville and music hall performers, including George Burns, who kept it up for decades. The English trio of Wilson, Keppel and Betty were particularly well known for a routine "Cleopatra's Nightmare" (aka "Sand Dance"), in which they spread sand over the entire stage. The act had a pseudo-Egyptian ...
Wilson and Keppel perform their Sand Dance routine in 1934 Their "Cleopatra's Nightmare" routine was performed in 1936 in Berlin and condemned by Joseph Goebbels as indecent. [ 10 ] In the UK they were regarded as one of the best 'speciality acts' – acts designed to balance and support the star of a variety programme.
Howard "Sandman" Sims (January 24, 1917 – May 20, 2003) was an African-American tap dancer who began his career in vaudeville.He was skilled in a style of dancing that he performed in a wooden sandbox of his own construction, and acquired his nickname from the sand he sprinkled to alter and amplify the sound of his dance steps.
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Browne was born on the south side of Chicago, Illinois to her parents Ruby and Reuben Jordan. Her entire immediate family was musically inclined as her mother was a hotel worker and amateur musician; her father was a pharmacist, shoe salesman, and self-taught dancer; and her elder sister, Marquita, was a singer.
Can't Help Myself was a kinetic sculpture created by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu in 2016. [1] The sculpture consisted of a robotic arm that could move to sweep up red cellulose ether fluid leaking from its inner core, and make dance-like movements. [2] It was commissioned by the Guggenheim museum as part of The Robert. H. N.
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Here's how popular rom-coms and romantic dramas like "The Half of It," "The Kissing Booth 2," and "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" stack up.