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WikiProject Dance To-do list:

To nominate at WP:FAC:
To improve to Featured standard:
To nominate as a Good article:
To expand: 18th century dance - 20th century ballet - Bolero - Choreography on Broadway - Dance education - English ballet - Indian classical dance - Italian ballet - List of dance companies - Meg Stuart - Opera ballet - Sasha Waltz - Scotch reel - Set dance - Physically integrated dance
To cleanup: Contra dance - Salsa (dance) - Dandiya - Lead and follow
To unbias:
To check for copyvios:
To merge: List of dancers and List of dance personalities‎ as per AfD discussion
Substubs needing expansion: see /substubs
To destub: Amir Hossain Babu - Canada Dance Festival - Dance etiquette - Flash dance - more
Needing references: Chorus line - specifically verifying that each girl actually started out as a chorine
To create: Broadway dance - Country Western Dance International - Dance and cinema - Dance and society - German folk dancing - Latin swing - Post-structuralist ballet - Push (dance) - Salon dance - Shuffle dance - Swing boogie - World Dance Alliance - Xavier Le Roy - more
Wanted Pics/Graphics: Category:Dance articles needing images

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Correct Usage of Leotard image

Hello. I uploaded a long time ago an image of me to be used in the leotard article in view that the old one was inappropriate. I checked and saw that it is now used it some more articles, like the german leotard or the french ballet term. However its also in the Gravure idol article which is totally irrelative. I dont speak french so I would be grateful is someone deleted it from the french wiki. (its been a long time since i wrote in wikipedia and have forgotten how to place a signature, my username is viruswitch)

Proposed deletion / article in sad need of some help

Poor neglected "cotillion" has been merged with what is currently the master article on the subject, which is all about debutante balls, and nothing to do with the eighteenth-century dance form! The article itself was asked to be deleted, although I don't see it in the actual deletions nomination list, so I think the tag could be removed. As of now, though, the article Cotillion_(dance) has nothing in it but three meager paragraphs which I stole from the article on debutante balls. Sadly, I can do no better; I came here to learn more about them! I'll add the "expert" tag and hope that someone at this project can give it some love. Feyandstrange (talk) 14:37, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Balkan dance article?

I don't know if this is the proper forum to raise this question, but I was wondering whether an article on Balkan dance would fit into the structure of dance articles. Although there are articles on the folk dances of the individual Balkan countries, there is none on them as a group. Yet Balkan folk dance is often viewed as a single category within the dance community, because of a regional distinctiveness, and because, due to extensive ethnic mixing, dance styles don't break down along national but along ethnic lines - the same styles and dances are done in different countries. "Balkan line dance" forms a popular subcategory within the international folk dance movement, and folk dance groups all over the world specialize in the dances of the Balkan countries as a group. Balkan dances have much in common: they are line dances; the music has distinctive "asymmetric meters", composed of two different length beats; common formations, common handholds; a common vocabulary of foot movements, such as čukče, common styles. At present this extensive common dance "vocabulary" is described piecemeal in articles on the individual countries and individual dances, causing a great deal of redundancy. So how about an overview article to provide the terminology to describe these common styles? Should it be called Balkan line dance, Folk dances of the Balkans, or what? --Chetvorno^TALK 23:02, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mayerling Incident: Dance or not?

Mayerling Incident is tagged as part of WikiProject Dance and WikiProject Ballet.

"The Mayerling Incident refers to the series of events leading to the apparent murder-suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera. ... in Lower Austria on January 30, 1889."

I don't see any obvious connection in this article to dance/ballet. Does anyone want to look into this and edit the article or remove the template, as appropriate? -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 20:33, 12 April 2009 (UTC) [reply]

Still nothing. Anybody? Anything? -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 03:50, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dances and styles

Can anybody explain the difference between dances and dance styles as categories? I am asking because I'd like to make dance-oriented music genres easy to find under "music". Please post me if there's an answer. Thanks. Redheylin (talk) 19:00, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Infoboxes

Hi guys. Is there a dance infobox that would be suitable for a dance troupe, or performing arts group of some kind? AFAICT, the dancer infobox only caters for individuals, and I'm wary of using the "musical artist" infobox for a non-musical arts group. Cheers! Cycle~ (talk) 22:25, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry, it's sorted! Cycle~ (talk) 19:30, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

JESSICA GUADALUPE

Hi... I think this article is very interesting, because it talks about the most beautiful dance in the world. Ballet´s history had past for a lot of periods and changes around the world. All that changes have created three ballet styles: classical, neoclassical and contemporary. It´s considerate an art esenical. If you want to dance ballet you need to have a body control, because the movements are base in flexibility. I think, that ballet practice could be difficult, but maybe is a very good experience accompany with a lot of fun... so, What are you waiting to start practicing ballet???--201.156.166.122 (talk) 02:55, 27 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Melanie LaPatin

Could someone help me expand the Melanie LaPatin article? ---kilbad (talk) 03:12, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What's missing from Outline of dance?

Also, here's a relevant discussion about subject development you might find interesting.

The Transhumanist 00:53, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Peruvian Vals

Hi. Wikipedia has articles for "Vals Peruano" in several languages. I am going to talk about the one in English. It is known that about the origin of this dance that it comes from colonial time, from the Viena Waltzes. Recently I was listening some pieces of French Valse Musette. You can listen the sound is alike Peruvian vals with the 1-2 that goes with the main melody. In Youtube is possible to see some older French people (see "vals musette" and "bal musette") that dance exactly like Peruvians dance it. In addition, need is to say that this music was rooted mainly in Lima and the larger cities in Perú. It is also called "Vals criollo" meaning that it was more related to persons with Spaniard heritage in their blood. The "Vals criollo/Peruano" was to benefit from radio and TV difussion last century. Its golden time was from te '40s to the '60s. Actually is fading because new forms of popular music that goes from cumbia and rock, to the loved andean music are winning more room in radio, TV and the Internet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kharrub (talk • contribs) 15:26, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dance troupe

I noticed that there is no dance troupe article, dispite the fact that "(dance troupe)" is used for disambiguation in several article titles. Should a dance troupe article be created, or should it just be redirected to some previously existing article? --Zundark (talk) 08:02, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think dance troupe should be redirected to dance company and that article expanded. There will be exceptions to the rule, but generally the term dance troupe or dance company are pretty much interchangeable. Crazy-dancing (talk) 18:13, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I also agree... Many dance troupes started off as small groups of dancers assembled for performances who lacked the scope, scale and finances of formal dance companies. Most major and notible dance organizations are today established as "companies" and the use of "troupe" appears to be archaic. Thanks.

Seamanjg (talk) 17:28, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Two categories for deletion

Project members may be interested in the following two deletion debates for categories relating to this project:

Description of moves

Why not add a chapter in each dance article about description of the dance moves ? For example, for Salsa, descriptions of Enchufla or Copa or Cross body lead, etc could be added. It is possible to give a detailed description (in tableform) with footpositions, timing, body direction etc. Marc1956 (talk) 21:43, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Contributions from project members would be welcome at these discussions (and of course at all CFD discussions!). --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:14, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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