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    Senegal‚ Sierra Leone and Nigeria. Stereotypes of African dancing were created in Europe and the Americas that even most westernized Africans began to accept‚ but the history of African dance dates back more than 3‚000 years ago. Scholars have found drawings of people dancing on the walls of rocks in countries like Algeria and Egypt. This shows how important dancing was to the early humans. The earliest official records of African Dancing go back to fifteenth century when France and Britain controlled

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    one of the largest centers of film production in the world. Bollywood films almost always have a series of songs and dances that sets it apart from industries like Hollywood. Bollywood dancing is a critical part of Indian film and culture and has changed in a number of ways throughout the years. Bollywood dancing is primarily based off of Indian dance styles such as classical‚ historic regional styles‚ or folk dances. However‚ in recent years there has been a twist added from Westernized dance

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    Gina the Dancing Queen STORYSACK Designed for Stage 1 - Year 2 Melissa Martin 220101596 Storysack Contents:  Storysack  Contents Page  Letter to Parents: Storysack; Introduction‚ explanation and directions on use.  ‘Gina the Dancing Queen’ by Marisa Alo  ‘Giraffes and Zebras’ by Michael and Jane Pelusey  Prompt Cards  Matching Game  Graphophonic Activity  Handwriting Activity  Punctuation Activity  Talking/Listening Activity  Felt characters‚ felt board and props  Character Masks

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    often‚ just for leisure. Prestigious dancing masters taught these dances. These dances included unique forms and one-of-a-kind styles (Hall 81). First of all‚ dancing masters were great services for the English Elizabethan Court. In the Elizabethan era‚ it was required for English Elizabethan Court members to have experience in dancing‚ especially because Queen Elizabethan encouraged it amongst all of her subjects (Alchin /Elizabethan Dance). The most famous dancing masters were Thoinot Arbeau‚ Fabritio

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    ” -Edward Le Roy Rice‚ one of many‚ many people’s sayings about‚ William Henry Lane. Many people in the 19th century danced in Minstrel Shows‚ but this one individual dancer changed their perspectives all over the country and world. His style of dancing was something nobody ever tried to create before‚ using his own culture mixed with other ways of dance. William Henry Lane or‚ Master Juba‚ was one of the most influential dancers to be known back in the 1840’s. Lane tapped his way through many shows

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    FUNDAMENTALS OF RHYTHM

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    research among music scholars. Recent work in these areas includes books by Maury Yeston‚ Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff‚ Jonathan Kramer‚ Christopher Hasty‚ Godfried Toussaint‚ William Rothstein‚ and Joel Lester. What is dancing? Dancing is the music played with the body. Dancing

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    Cortez Nicolas BS Biology 1A Prof. Felipa Oliquino PE 2 SWING DANCING HISTORY The swing dance is not a single form/kind of dance but a group of various dances which developed in the earlier half of the twentieth century. These dance forms flourished with jazz or swing style of music. The origin of these swing dances can be traced back to the vernacular African-American dance forms. Today‚ the most popular form of swing dancing is Lindy Hop. In fact‚ many of the swing dance forms have descended

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    role of any dancing activity. So‚ the reasons Copeland & Cohen (1982) talk about mind and medium connection in dancing activities are several. Consistently‚ it matters what a dancer is thinking when dancing and also it matters how he or she expresses his or her thoughts when performing the same dancing activity. Here‚ I think the mind-body connection serves as an underlying fundamental framework of movement as seen in different ways purposely and thoughtfully in almost any modern dancing

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    So it’s a Meryton Assembly ball‚ where Austen arranges the rendezvous of her heroes and heroines. The dancing at the ball is integral to develop a type of relationship she anticipates. It’s a time of perfect pleasure for many of the girls and their families from Elizabeth’s neighborhood. Jane’s and Bingley’s chemistry in this ball‚ as Austen depicts‚ completely matches with each other. The Meryton ball works as a catalyst to advance a love between Jane and Bingley‚ they exchange amorous glances since

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    Beliefs And Values Seen in Contemporary Salsa Dancing Salsa culture is being consumerized throughout the world and with it the ideals of Latin culture are being spread. Salsa is being‚ transferred‚ translated‚ transculturated and sold all over the world via multinational corporations (Cultural Studies‚ pg.1). With the massive spread of popularity and the mainstream commercialism Salsa dancing has been molded to every different "walk" of life. Even though the Latin ideals still link the

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