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unusual facts about dance-punk



A Simple Plan

Simple Plan, a pop punk band formed in 1999 in Montreal, Canada

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.

B.A.D

B.A.D. (Not to be confused with English Post-punk group Big Audio Dynamite)

Backbiter

They jammed with drummer Bob Lee (one of the Devo Bob drummers) and the power trio came together, playing local clubs such as the notable post-punk hangout, Raji's.

Banamba

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

Billy Duffy

Duffy got his start playing in different punk line-ups in the late 1970s, but these earlier years were more notable for his introducing Johnny Marr (The Smiths) to the guitar and encouraging Morrissey to make his singing debut with Duffy in The Nosebleeds.

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'.

Conrad Lanoue

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

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).

Das Oath

Their self-conscious move away from a typical punk rock aesthetic presaged a signing to Dim Mak Records, an extremely varied and commercial label that released Das Oath's most critically well-received release, their self-titled LP from 2004.

Derf Scratch

During the punk revival generated by Nirvana in the 1990s, vocalist Lee Ving did one final performance with the original lineup of Fear before putting together a new version of Fear containing no original members other than himself.

Deweare

Deweare's music was greatly influenced by the resurgence of French punk cult bands such as Bérurier Noir and Ludwig von 88, as well as by rock musician, comedian and poet Alain Bashung and by American music artist Beck—another musician to whom Deweare's vocals have been compared.

Direktori

During the spring of 1989, vocalist Nebojša Drakula, with the former Varšavski Geto member Miroslav Pilipović "Trta" on guitar, former Pogrebni Zavod member Srđan Marić on bass guitar and former Hogari member Dragan "Rale" Rašković on drums, formed a band performing cover versions of oi! punk acts such as Sham 69, Cockney Rejects and Skrewdriver.

Drake Levin

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

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.

Frank Agnew

In 2010, Frank Agnew joined L.A. Punk and death rock legend Dinah Cancer in 45 Grave.

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.

Interpretive Dance

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

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".

Joe Keithley

Keithley appeared in the punk/cult film Terminal City Ricochet, as well as contributing music (through D.O.A.) to the soundtrack.

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.

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company

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

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.

Limp Wrist

Lead singer Martin Sorrondeguy appears in Queercore: A Punk-u-mentary by Scott Treleaven and addresses the issue implicit in these song titles.

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.

Oraibi, Arizona

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

Pankrti

They billed themselves The First Punk Band Behind The Iron Curtain (one of their songs has a title Behind iron curtain old brods are pulling the red beet).

Phil Allen

In May 1977, at the petition of Deaf School's Clive Langer, he founded the punk and post-punk band, Big In Japan, being the drummer; he played in some songs which later appeared on the From Y to Z and Never Again EP, but became less inspired and left in December 1977.

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

Self Destruction Blues

"Dead By X-Mas" has been covered by the Japanese hardcore band The Piass in 1994, the US punk band The Hillstreet Stranglers in 2005, the British electro group Sohodolls in 2007 and the Finnish rockabilly band Big Daddy & Rockin’ Combo in 2008.

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.

Stikky

During Stikky's active years it was common for them, Crimpshrine, Isocracy, Operation Ivy, Corrupted Morals, Sweet Baby Jesus, or The Lookouts to open a bill for a touring punk band almost every weekend at 924 Gilman Street.

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).

The '90s Suck and So Do You

The '90s Suck and So Do You is an album by punk band Angry Samoans released in 1999 (see 1999 in music).

The Offs

The Offs are a punk/ska band from San Francisco, started by guitarist Billy Hawk and singer Don Vinil, and later joined by former Hot Tuna drummer Bob Steeler and a rotation of horn players including Bob Roberts, Richard Edson and Roland Young.

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.

Wade Keighran

He started his career playing guitar in punk band Taking Sides, was the bass player and co-songwriter with The Scare and is currently writing and playing bass for Wolf & Cub.

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).


see also

DFA Compilation, Vol. 1

1 is a compilation of tracks by various artists signed to the dance-punk label The DFA.

DFA Holiday Mix 2005

DFA Holiday Mix 2005 is a compilation of tracks and remixes by various artists on the dance-punk label The DFA.

For Screening Purposes Only

For Screening Purposes Only is the debut album by UK dance-punk trio Test Icicles.

Laura Palmer

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

Nic Offer

He is best known as the vocalist of the dance/punk band !!!, which he helped form in Sacramento, California in 1996.

Quit Your Dayjob

Quit Your Dayjob is a Swedish dance-punk band originating from Malmö/Scania, Sweden made up of Jonass (on guitar and vocals), Marcass (synthesizer) and Drumass (drums).

The DFA Remixes

The DFA Remixes is a series of two remix compilations by influential dance-punk production duo The DFA (James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy).