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  • Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a musical genre of Latin music and dance that was very popular in the United States in the late 1960s ...
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  • Geom-mu refers to a traditional sword dance practiced in Korea. Korean ... with a exceptional talent for sword dance. His talent brought him great ...
    7 KB (1,101 words) - 12:12, 5 November 2022
  • In music, syncopation is a stress on a normally unstressed beat, or ... which is used in Son montuno Cuban dance music. Timing can vary, but ...
    8 KB (1,228 words) - 18:11, 24 October 2022
  • Mambo is a Cuban musical form and dance style. The word mambo ("conversation ... The fusion of swing and Cuban music produced this fascinating rhythm ...
    10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
  • in, studied at the Vera Lynn School of Dance and attended Pacific High ... history in 1963 and joined the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Two years later ...
    10 KB (1,421 words) - 16:40, 10 May 2022
  • Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated in Africa and traveled via the African slave trade to Cuba and the ...
    13 KB (2,099 words) - 20:44, 20 August 2022
  • were often influenced by Armenian folk music. By synthesizing folk music ... In his youth, he was fascinated by the music he heard around him, but ...
    10 KB (1,319 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
  • transliterations) is a sacred ritualized dance of Java, Indonesia, associated ... Traditionally, the dance was performed by young women only in the ...
    12 KB (1,955 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
  • as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance. Building upon the foundation ... the American public's view towards dance, was that "dancing is ...
    12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
  • Johann's enthusiasm for popular dance music. Tragedy struck his ... of the waltz as well as other dance music in Vienna. Strauss soon ...
    11 KB (1,610 words) - 14:55, 1 August 2022
  • in the entertainment arts, for example, in music, theater and dance. ... Improvisation is an important aspect of music in general. Musical ...
    10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
  • Each year an elaborate performance of ancient court music (with accompanying ... The Jongmyo Jerye-ak, the traditional court music of Joseon, is performed ...
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  • 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music. Manuel de Falla was born in Cádiz. His early teacher in music was ...
    10 KB (1,487 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
  • 1879 – July 21, 1968) was an early modern dance pioneer. Her exotic, oriental ... She and her husband, Ted Shawn, founded the influential dance school ...
    12 KB (1,963 words) - 23:52, 21 August 2022
  • was an advocate for gender balance in the dance world. Noted for making ... synagogue and at the Gramercy School of Music and Dance. He made his solo ...
    11 KB (1,725 words) - 05:07, 15 December 2022
  • Ballroom dance refers to a set of learned partner dances, which are ... to have originated in Argentina so ballroom dance has a truly international ...
    17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
  • Modern dance is a dance form that developed in the early twentieth ... The early modern dance pioneers of the 1920s through the 1940s broke ...
    18 KB (2,688 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
  • In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression ... re-emerged four years later in the R&B dance hit, "The Hucklebuck ...
    6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
  • 1, 1958) was a notable central European dance artist and theorist, whose ... One of the founders of European Modern Dance, Laban raised the status ...
    13 KB (1,986 words) - 17:40, 22 December 2022
  • a central figure in the history of European dance. Despite the fact that she ... in Stockholm, Sweden. The family history in dance dates back to the 1700s, ...
    10 KB (1,510 words) - 04:14, 6 November 2022

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