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The Tarkhan Dress, named for the Tarkhan cemetery south of Cairo in Egypt where it was excavated in 1913, is an over 5000 year old linen garment that was confirmed as the world's oldest piece of woven clothing. [2] [1] The dress coded UC28614B is currently in the collection of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. [3]
"Ballerina" is a popular song, sometimes known as "Dance, Ballerina, Dance". [1] The song was written by Carl Sigman with lyrics by Sidney Keith 'Bob' Russell. [2] Published in 1947, the tune is listed as ASCAP Title Code 320012517.
For example, Arabic texts refer to a "Tarkhan, king of the Khazars" as reigning in the mid ninth century. Whether this is a confused reference to a military official or the name of an individual Khazar khagan remains unclear. The name is occasionally used today in Turkish and Arabic speaking countries. It is used as family name in Hungary today.
Her ballerina skirt was a shortened version of the 1830s fashion gown. [7] She was the first ballerina to dance a full-length ballet en pointe, and became very popular with images of her widely published. Following her fame, luxury fabrics and corsets were produced bearing the names Taglioni or La Sylphide. [10] [11]
Eileen Kramer (8 November 1914 – 15 November 2024) was an Australian dancer, artist, performer, choreographer, and supercentenarian.She began by studying singing and music in Sydney in the 1930s, but after attending a performance of the Bodenwieser Ballet in 1940, she immediately decided on a career change to dance.
Michaela Mabinty DePrince, a shining star in the ballet world who once danced in a Beyoncé video, has died too soon at the age of 29. DePrince's family confirmed the news of her passing on social ...
Historical dance (or early dance) is a term covering a wide variety of Western European-based dance types from the past as they are danced in the present. Today historical dances are danced as performance , for pleasure at themed balls or dance clubs, as historical reenactment , or for musicological or historical research.
The Turkey Trot was done to fast ragtime music popular in the decade from 1900 to 1910 such as Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag. Driven largely by youth counterculture of the time, the turkey trot fad quickly fell out of favor as the foxtrot , a much more conservative dance step based on the waltz , rose to popularity in 1914.