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    most other social dances‚ with a “pushing and pulling” hand and arm communication. The original dance style from the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean is a basic dance arrangement in a full 8 count moving within a square. Others in the Western dancing world later developed a more simple style and pattern‚ which incorporated dance elements from other dances as well. The basic is also in a full 8 count‚ but with a side to side motion. Both of these styles consist of 3 normal steps and then a tap

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    legendary of all Black American tap dancers that lived in the 20th century. Bill was also an actor who was best known for his film roles and Broadway performances. Bill dancing style that involved dancing upright‚ while extracting and swinging his light footwork‚ took tap from the previous flat-footed shuffling style and developed tap dancing art to a delicate perfection‚ pushing performers to their toes. Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson was born on 25th of May 1878 in Richmond‚ Virginia. He was a son of Maxwell

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    a dance floor and music. They allow ages eighteen and up to enter the club‚ and have special college nights and for the majority of the days of the week‚ women get in free. Guitars and Cadillac’s tend to focus more on country music and country dancing. Other clubs around the Abilene area have about the same goal but are much more pricy with less specials and different music. The clubs audience is focused mainly on college student and people who are aged in their twenty’s. Since Abilene’s average

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    Jazz: Then and Now

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    were quick to adopt it. It used the hand-clapping and foot-stamping introduced by the African culture. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson‚ a world-famous black tap dancer who had an extremely clean and precise technique‚ was also big during that era. Tap dancing‚ which incorporates limited upper body movements‚ isn’t directly related to jazz dance‚ but it is very similar. The early forms of tap dance evolved from the Irish jig. Robinson’s style influenced the future of tap by changing the placement of the

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    Mexican Culture Essay

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    sporting or quietly reading a book; whether it’s a toddler playing with his blocks or a senior playing chess with his friends. Some leisure activities that are popular in Mexico that all fit in the same category are fiestas which are parties‚ music and dancing. All three of these activities are important to one another because they occur at the same time and it’s a way created for family and friends to get closer with one another. The Mexican culture is filled with delicious foods‚ beautiful architecture

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    Continuing on women’s rights‚ Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ a strong feminist and author of The Yellow Wallpaper wrote on women’s focus in their roles in the consumer world as minor pieces. She points out a key topic about how women are told to take and take and take but to not give but one thing‚ their womanhood‚ meaning that a woman is to consume the position to feed the family and basically care for the family but at the same time be under their husbands control. So to basically take every gift from

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    Life of Martha Graham

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    pursue her dream. After graduating from Cumnock‚ she enrolled in the Denishawn Studio‚ a dancing school operated by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. Graham had never had a dance lesson up to that point‚ but the small‚ quiet‚ shy‚ but hardworking girl impressed Shawn and toured with his troupe in a production of Xochitl‚ based on an Indian legend. In 1923 Graham left this company to do two years of solo dancing for the Greenwich Village Follies. In 1925 Graham became dance instructor at the Eastman

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    Since the early 1900’s‚ swing dancing has livened up the dance floors across the United States. Many versions of swing dancing are still in existence today. Of those dances (the Lindy Hop‚ Jitterbug‚ East Coast Swing‚ West Coast Swing‚ and the Charleston)‚ the two most common amongst the social dancers are the East Coast Swing and West Coast Swing. Though they derived from the same dance‚ the Lindy Hop‚ many things set them apart from one another. The style‚ frame‚ and beat of the West Coast Swing

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    Summer Solstice

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    story itself and were added in the movie: ➢ The scene that Amada is dancing the ritual in the forest. ➢ All the sexy or bed scenes that are added for the spice of the movie to give some interest for some men ➢ The rituals they do in the Balete tree that there some kind of vegetables that symbolizes something ➢ Michaela and Maggie are not originally in the story and also the scene where Maggie is dancing with Guido and seducing him by letting him touch her breast. ➢ The

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    The Red Curtain Trilogy‚ upon first thought‚ could simply be seen as a marketing tool by Baz Luhrmann and the team at Bazmark - put your three popular films in a box set with some added features and set it upon the DVD buying audience. However‚ upon further inspection‚ the three films are not boxed together simply for marketing purposes‚ or just by the fact they have the same director and production team - Simply Ballroom‚ William Shakespeares Romeo & Juliet and Moulin Rouge! all have underlying

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