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Dance also is used to describe methods of non-verbal communication (see body language) between humans or animals (bee dance, mating dance), motion in inanimate objects (the leaves danced in the wind), and certain genres.
Choreography is the art of making dances.
Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social, cultural, aesthetic, artistic and moral constraints and range from functional movement (such as folk dance) to codified, virtuoso techniques such as ballet. Dance disciplines exist in sports such as gymnastics, figure skating, and synchronized swimming, and martial arts kata are often compared to dance.
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What separates hip hop dance from other forms of dance is that it is often improvisational (freestyle) in nature and hip hop dancers frequently engage in battles—formal or informal one on one dance competitions. Freestyle sessions and battles are usually performed in a cipher, a circular dance space which forms naturally once the dancing begins. It was DJ Afrika Bambaataa that outlined the five pillars of hip hop culture including breaking as one of them (along with rapping, DJing, beatboxing, and graffiti).
The dance industry responded to hip hop dance by creating a more commercial version of it. This "studio hip hop", sometimes called new style is the kind of hip hop dancing seen in most rap and R&B music videos. Technically speaking, hip hop dance (new style hip hop that is) is characterized as hard hitting. The feet are grounded, the chest is down, and the body is kept loose so that a dancer can easily alternate between hitting the beat or riding through the beat. This is in contrast to ballet or ballroom dancing where the chest is upright and the body is stiff. In addition, new style hip hop is very rhythmic and there's a lot of emphasis placed on musicality—how sensitive your movements are to the music.
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The can-can (also spelled cancan, Can Can) is regarded today primarily as a music hall dance, performed by a chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes with long skirts, petticoats, and black stockings, harking back to the fashions of the 1890s. The main features of the dance are the lifting up and manipulation of the skirts, with high kicking and suggestive, provocative body movements.
Did you know
... that Rolf de Maré was a Swedish art collector who in 1933 created the world's first museum and research institute for dance?
... that the first performance of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, in 1958, was held at New York's 92nd Street Young Men's Hebrew Association?
... the Ländler dance that Maria and the Captain shared in the musical The Sound of Music is not really traditional?
... during the production of Sylvia, the score was constantly under construction by Delibes, often with the aid of lead dancers Louis Mérante and Rita Sangalli?
... the Baltic Song and Dance Celebrations are Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity?
...that the score of Giselle contains additions by Léon Minkus?
...that the Mark Morris Dance Group derives its name from the fact that Mark Morris never wanted a formal company but instead simply gathered a group of his colleageus and peers and, on November 28, 1980, put on a show of his works at the Merce Cunningham Studios in Greenwich Village, New York City?
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Jerry Mitchell is an American theatre director and choreographer. He served as both director and choreographer for Legally Blonde: The Musical, which opened in April 2007 and Peep Show, the stage show for Planet Hollywood Las Vegas starring Holly Madison.
Most of his career has been in theatre; however, in 2008 he served as a mentor on Bravo's reality competition Step It Up and Dance. In 2005 he won a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography for La Cage aux Folles.
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2011
- 25 August Julie McDonald (new article)
- 06 April Guillermo Keys-Arenas (new article)
2010
- 10 November Flexing (new article)
- 31 October Turn (dance and gymnastics) (new article)
- 01 August Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo (major rewrite)
- 11 July History of hip-hop dance (new article)
2009
- 29 October Krumping (major rewrite)
- 29 October Salah (major rewrite)
- 19 September Shobana Jeyasingh (new article)
- 09 September B-boy (major rewrite)
- 09 September B-boying (major rewrite)
- 03 August Hip-hop dance (major rewrite)
- 02 July Fanny Pak (new article)
- 02 July Dave Scott (new article)
- 08 June Siobhan Davies (choreographic style)
- 29 March Pointe shoes (major rewrite)
2008
- 13 October The Moor's Pavane (José Limón's 1949 ballet)
- 13 October A Midsummer Night's Dream (Balanchine's first complete full-length ballet, 1962)
- 09 August Australian Dance Awards
- 29 March Concert dance (merge material from Dance Theatre)
- 21 March Australian Choreographic Ensemble
- 14 March Margaret Morris (dancer)
- 10 March Garry Stewart
- 24 February Health risks of professional dance (based on "Risks of classical ballet")
- 10 February History of ballet split from Ballet
- 10 February Ballet heavy copy edit
- 29 January List of dance companies (create table)
- 17 January Acro dance
2007
- 30 December Ulyana Lopatkina (major upgrade)
- 30 December Galina Mezentseva (new)
- 28 December Susanne Linke (from the German WP article)
- 30 August Dance Notation Bureau
- 31 July Marianela Núñez
- 03 June The Forsythe Company
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