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8 unusual facts about dance


98.8 KISS FM Berlin

98.8 KISS FM is a privately owned radio station broadcasting to Berlin and parts of Brandenburg on 98.8 FM MHz specialising in R&B, dance, hip hop and pop.

Basset-class trawler

The first 20 vessels were ordered under the 1939 programme (the Tree class), 30 vessels under the 1939 War Emergency programme in two groups (20 Dance class, and 10 Shakespearian class), and a further 130 over the next four years (the Western Isles (or, simply, Isles) class).

Brenda Way

Brenda Way is the Artistic Director/Founder of ODC/Dance (Oberlin Dance Company)ODC has since become the premier contemporary dance company of the West Coast, performing for more than 50,000 people a year.

Dance/Electronic Singles Sales

The Hot Dance Singles Sales once included non-dance songs and singles without dance remixes if they were released as maxi singles, including singles by such artists as the Industrial metal band Ministry and alternative rock band The Smiths.

KKHH

Playing a variety of EDM genres such as Progressive, Electronica, Trance, and Dance-pop, the station also airs a variety of 1990's tracks as well as limited commercial interruptions.

KXJM

The changes reflected the station's shift away from what had been a Hip-Hop/R&B-leaning direction to a more broader Rhythmic approach that includes Dance-pop tracks, a move that has taken place at other Rhythmic outlets in the United States.

La Coco-Dance

The uncharacteristic style and performance (Monaco and France both being known for entering gentle ballads) was remarked upon by the BBC commentator immediately following the performance, who said " - Who knew Monaco was so versatile?"

ODC/Dance

ODC/Dance (formerly, the Oberlin Dance Company) is a contemporary dance company founded in 1971 by current artistic director Brenda Way.


Amanda Aday

She attended the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center, a summer theatre/dance camp in the Catskill Mountains in New York, from 1990 through 1996, and then graduated from the prestigious Idyllwild Arts Academy in California.

Ana Sanchez-Colberg

The piece was the recipient of the Creative Collaborations in Music Award from PRS for its treatment of dance and "live music" in performance.

Austria in the Eurovision Dance Contest

Their routine was a fusion of Foxtrot, Jive and Hip Hop, and was performed to a medley of "The Third Man/Harry Lime theme by Anton Karas, "Der Kommissar" by After The Fire/Falco, "The Pink Panther Theme" by Henry Mancini and "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer, all of which were performed by the Dance For Europe Orchestra.

Banamba

On holidays (Muhammad's birthday and baptism, Ramadan, Tabaski) women dance to drums in various little corners around town.

Bangerz

The Bangerz, a California DJ group that rose to prominence on the first season of America's Best Dance Crew

Barbara Tucker

2000: "Stop Playing With My Mind" (Barbara Tucker featuring Darryl D'Bonneau) - #1 US Hot Dance Club Songs; #25 US Hot Dance Singles Sales; #17 UK

Box Television

The playlist is predominantly mainstream Urban Pop, Dance and R&B, although since its relaunch in Summer 2006, (and the launch of a sister channel Q) it has begun to focus more on dance music once again.

Brian Capron

In April 2010, Capron appeared on ITV Show This Morning along with fellow cast member of Stepping Out, Anita Harris, and they showed presenters Phillip Schofield and Ruth Langsford how to tap dance.

Cherry Willingham Community School

A new sports complex, complete with dance studio, weights room and gymnasium, changing rooms and a large main sports hall, was officially opened on 10 October 2001 by Princess Alexandra.

Chitrasena

Besides spearheading the revival of indigenous dance forms, Chitrasena also made his stage debut as Othello in the Ernest MacIntyre production of Shakespeare's ‘Othello' and Emperor Jones in the late Karan Breckenridge's production of Eugene O'Neill's 'Emperor Jones'.

Club Can't Handle Me

The song was also featured in a dance routine to promote Step Up 3D on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on August 13.

Conrad Lanoue

He spent much of his later career in dance bands, including those of Lester Lanin, Hal Landsberry, and Charles Peterson.

Contra body movement

Contra body movement (CBM) is a term used in ballroom dances, such as Waltz, Foxtrot, Tango, Quickstep.

Dance India Dance

The dancers are put through a battery of rounds which test their ability to pick up various dance styles (typically some of the more well-represented genres that will later be prominent in the competition phase, such as Hip-Hop, Bollywood Dance, Jazz, Bharat Natyam, Kathak, Mohiniyattam, Odissi and Contemporary).

Dean McCarthy

Shortly after being selected for the role he made a dance appearance on the long running Irish talk show The Late Late Show hosted by Pat Kenny and was interviewed by Dustin the Turkey on Irish children's show The Den.

Drake Levin

Levin's synchronized dance steps and stage antics with fellow Raider bassist Phil "Fang" Volk earned the pair the nickname "The Twins".

East Coast Swing

Lindy Hop was never standardized and later became the inspiration for several other dance forms such as: (European) Boogie Woogie, Jive, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing and Rock and Roll.

Footsee

By late 1974, the Northern soul music and dance scene centered on the Wigan Casino club in Lancashire, England, was attracting increasing attention from mainstream media in the UK, at the same time as original American R&B recordings which met the musical criteria of its fans, and which were new to listeners, were becoming more difficult to find.

Gina X Performance

Gina X Performance was a German dance-rock/electropop ensemble from Cologne, consisting of vocalist Gina Kikoine and writer/producer Zeus B. Held, Ralph Morgenstern (backing vocals), Hinrich Sickenberger (backing vocals, drums) and Lazlo Czigany (drums).

Hape Kerkeling

In April and May 2006 he presented the live TV show Let's Dance, the German version of Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing with the Stars, with Nazan Eckes.

I Will Be Here

Exiting through a parking deck, he eventually makes his way through Shibuya, Tokyo, and does one final dance in the middle of the famous intersection in front of the Hachiko exit at Shibuya Station, before going to the top of a building, where he "powers down" as the music ends.

Ice Theatre of New York

The Ice Theatre of New York has performed works by dance choreographers such as Lar Lubovitch, Laura Dean, Elisa Monte, and JoAnna Mendl Shaw.

Interpretive Dance

"Interpretive Dance" was the second episode directed by Justin Lin and the second written by Lauren Pomerantz.

It's All About Me

Harrison choreographed the dance routines and designed her own outfit a red Japanese traditional kimono.

Jacopo Godani

He has also pursued studies at the Fine Arts High School of Carrara and was accepted to further his studies at Maurice Béjart's international dance centre, Mudra in Bruxelles, Belgium.

James Sewell Ballet

She was also named a City Pages "Artist of the Year" in 2009 for her work in the Minneapolis dance community.

Japanese hip hop

A big break through time for the dance scene in Japan was after the movies "Flashdance," "Wild Style", and "Beat Street".

Kostas Martakis

The pop rock version of the song was originally supposed to be performed at the National Final, but the dance version was chosen instead by Martakis and his label.

La Scala Theatre Ballet School

Following the defeat of Napoleon, the school's name was changed to Imperial Regia Accademia di Ballo del Teatro alla Scala (Royal Imperial Dance Academy of the Teatro alla Scala).

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company

A special anniversary tour including Great Britain and (in the US) the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

Laura Palmer

Canadian dance-punk band You Say Party released a single in 2010 titled "Laura Palmer's Prom" on the album XXXX.

Leee John

He released a number of dance singles in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the UK Garage tracks "Your Mind, Your Body, Your Soul" and "U Turn Me" with Ten City vocalist Byron Stingily (2000).

Lezlie Deane

In the 1990s she was recruited by producers Peter Rafelson and Michael Lewis to join the dance-pop group Fem2fem, and toured Europe and North America as an opening act for Nine Inch Nails (NIN) and Marilyn Manson.

Mary Fitton

In June 1600 Mary led a dance in the masque celebrating the fashionable wedding of Lady Anne Russell, granddaughter of the Earl of Bedford, with Henry Somerset, later created Marquess of Worcester, at Lord Cobham's residence in Blackfriars.

Miss Sadie Thompson

Lloyd T. Binford, the 85-year-old head of the Memphis Board of Censors, said, "It's rotten, lewd, immoral, just a plain raw dirty picture;" described "The Heat Is On" as a "filthy dance scene;" and believed the film should be banned.

Music Instructor

It was released in 1995, and was followed by the album The World of Music Instructor in 1996 with three more singles – "Hands In The Air", "Dream A Little Dream" and "Dance".

Natalie Powers

The public interest in Pop Idol prompted Almighty to ask Natalie to record a dance version of "Unchained Melody", which was soon to be released by Gareth Gates, one of the finalists.

New York Percussion Trio

The group was originally formed in 1954 as the Dance-Percussion Trio, to accompany performances by the modern dancer Daniel Nagrin; Nagrin was a member of the trio along with the pianist David Shapiro and the percussionist Ronald Gould.

Oraibi, Arizona

Warburg visited Oraibi in 1896 and with the help of Henry Voth attended a ritual spring dance.

Peter Biľak

From 2004 he has been collaborating with the choreographer Lukáš Timulak on the concepts of dance performances.

Philolaus

By nature the middle is first, and around it dance ten divine bodies - the sky, the planets, then the sun, next the moon, next the earth, next the counterearth, and after all of them the fire of the hearth which holds position at the centre.

Run to Paradise

The song returned to the Australian singles charts in Australia in July 2004 when dance producer Nick Skitz asked Gable to sing "Run to Paradise" on a dance reworking.

Sadie Hawkins

Sadie Hawkins dance, a school dance in which female students invite male students

Slymenstra Hymen

On the tours for the Carnival of Chaos album, she danced to the song "Sammy," because "Horror of Yig" often followed the Slymenstra-Techno wedding section, which required at least two costume changes for Stampe; as such, the fire dance was set to "Sammy," which required none.

Sociedad Latina

In 2003, The Boston Globe profiled Sociedad Latina’s Unique Rhythm dance team that performed salsa, merengue, hip-hop, and other styles, with participants receiving tutoring and additional support services.

Thai hip hop

In early 1990s Thai hip hop is origins by pop/dance artists include Jetrin Wattanasin in album Jor-Ae-Bor (จ เ-ะ บ), and Touch Na Takuathung in album Touch Thunder (ทัช ธันเดอร์), the album mixed dance-pop with rap, also artists such as Raptor a duo consisting of Louis Scott and Joni Anwar mixed dance-pop with rap, and some success in song "Superhero" (ซูเปอร์ฮีโร่) from album Raptor (แร็พเตอร์).

Tiffany Butcher

One trailer saw Bianca singing The Jackson 5 hit "I Want You Back" and performing a dance routine along with her four children.

Wildstylez

Metekohy worked with Headhunterz again in 2011, on his song "Tonight" which also featured another fellow Dutch hardstyle act: Noisecontrollers, the song proved successful also and was nominated for a 2012 hard dance award of which the song was put upon the compilation album "Hard Dance Awards 2012" where it was featured as a remix from Alpha².

Xenia Seeberg

Several of her songs including "Heartbeat" have appeared on several compilations such as Dance Fever (1996), Dancemania 4 (1997) and Absolute Music 20 (1999).

Zoellner Arts Center

The venue has had a wide array of performers, including: the New York Philharmonic and Itzhak Perlman, the Tuvan throat singers Huun-Huur-Tu and Laurie Anderson, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, MOMIX, the Aquila Theatre Company, Lily Tomlin, Bernadette Peters and Queen Latifah.


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