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  2. Cheoyongmu - Wikipedia

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    Cheoyongmu (Korean: 처용무) is a Korean mask dance based on the legend of Cheoyong (처용, 處容), a son of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea. [1] It is also the oldest surviving Korean court dance created during the Unified Silla period. Cheoyongmu has also been considered as a shamanistic dance because it was performed to drive off evil ...

  3. Kathak - Wikipedia

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    [39] [40] When the colonial European officials began arriving in India, the Kathak court entertainment they witnessed was a synthesis of the ancient Indian tradition and Central Asian-Persian dance form, and the Kathak dance performers were called the "nautch girls" (or natch, a derivative of the more difficult to pronounce Sanskrit natya). [15 ...

  4. List of dances - Wikipedia

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    This is the main list of dances.It is a non-categorized, index list of specific dances. It may also include dances which could either be considered specific dances or a family of related dances.

  5. Nautch - Wikipedia

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    Nautch dancers in Old Delhi, c. 1874 Nautch dancer in Calcutta, c. 1900 A Raja awaits the arrival of Nautch dancers A Nautch girl performing, 1862. The nautch (/ ˈ n ɔː tʃ /, meaning "dance" or "dancing" from Hindustani: "naach") [1] was a popular court dance performed by girls (known as "nautch girls") in later Mughal and colonial India. [2]

  6. Ballet de cour - Wikipedia

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    The court ballet was a gathering of noblemen and women, as the cast and audience were largely supplied by the ruling class. The festivities, which were descendants of festivals, processions and mummeries dating back to the Middle Ages, looked more like a modern-day parade, than what people today would identify as a ballet performance.

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  8. Historical dance - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Chunaengjeon - Wikipedia

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    Chunaengjeon is the only solo Korean court dance. [4] It shares the same basic pattern and movement with other court dances. Among Joseon court dances it is praised as "the flower of court dance". The most important movement is hwajeontae, when the dancer imitates a bird perching on a flower by putting the colorful sleeves behind and smiling. [2]