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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.
The appeal of oddly satisfying videos is thought to lie in the human preference for symmetry, patterns and repetition, the interest of exploring the behavior of materials, [1] or hand movements. [3] It may be related to the autonomous sensory meridian response, a pleasant tingling sensation in the neck and scalp.
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.
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.
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Brain Dance may refer to: "Brain Dance", a song by Annihilator from the album Set the World on Fire , 1993 "The Brain Dance", a song by Animals as Leaders from the album The Madness of Many , 2016
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