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Tinikling is a traditional Philippine folk dance which originated prior to Spanish colonialism in the area. [1] The dance involves at least two people beating, tapping, and sliding bamboo poles on the ground and against each other in coordination with one or more dancers who step over and in between the poles in a dance.
Partner dance, Dance at Bougival by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883. Partner dances are dances whose basic choreography involves coordinated dancing of two partners. As such it occupies a middle ground between individuals dancing alone or individually in a non-coordinated manner, and groups of people dancing simultaneously in a coordinated manner.
Men and women traditionally play dandiya-raas and the dance operates in pairs, meaning the group must contain an even number. Generally, two lines are formed, with partners facing each other: The lines move clockwise, and each person steps forward to hit sticks with their partner, then moves on two people.
In ballet, a pas de deux [pɑ d(ə) dø] (French, literally "step of two") is a dance duet in which two dancers, typically a male and a female, perform ballet steps together. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The pas de deux is characteristic of classical ballet and can be found in many well-known ballets, including Sleeping Beauty , Swan Lake , and Giselle . [ 1 ]
In March 1909, Matisse painted a preliminary version of this work, known as Dance (I). [3] It was a compositional study and uses paler colors and less detail. [4] The painting was highly regarded by the artist who once called it "the overpowering climax of luminosity"; it is also featured in the background of Matisse's Nasturtiums with the Painting "Dance I", (1912).
La danse, by Henri Matisse (1910), The Hermitage, St Petersburg. The theme of dance often appears in his art work. Examples of art where some form of dance is present include: young people dancing the sardana in Fiesta de Santa Lucia (1921); [5] what appear to be people dancing in Ninfas en un jardín romántico (1921); [6] and Composición satírica (1923), a work clearly inspired by Matisse ...
A mixer dance, dance mixer or simply mixer is a kind of participation dance in a social dance setting that involves changing partners as an integral part. Mixing can be built into the dance choreography or can be structured to occur more randomly. Mixers allow dancers to meet new partners and allow beginners to dance with more advanced dancers.
Errenzhuan (simplified Chinese: 二人转; traditional Chinese: 二人轉; pinyin: Èrrénzhuàn, lit. "two-people rotation") is a genre of musical theater and folk dance from Northeast China, usually involving two performers (one male and one female).