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  Apache (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apache language refers to one of the several Southern Athabaskan languages (excluding Navajo) spoken by an Apache tribe, i.e.
Apache (dance), a form of dance in the 1920s.
Apache (dance move), a move in Lindy Hop and other dances.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apache_(disambiguation)   (324 words)

  
 Groucho (dance move). Who is Groucho (dance move)? What is Groucho (dance move)? Where is Groucho (dance move)? ...
Grouchos are traditional Lindy hop moves that cannot quite be categorized as either basic, side pass, swing out, or aerial dance moves.
Apache Turn: On counts 5, 6, 7, and 8, the follow moves like an apache turn swing out, but the lead closes to the follow on counts 7 and 8.
Dance - Swing - Lindy hop - East coast swing - West coast swing
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 wiki/Groucho (dance move) Definition / wiki/Groucho (dance move) Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Dance moveDance moves or Dance steps, are the building blocks of many dances.
Dance moves tend to emphasize the concepts of lead and follow and connection.
In most cases dance moves by themselves are independent of musicality, which is the appropriateness of a move to the music (for a notable exception, se...
www.elresearch.com /wiki/Groucho_(dance_move)   (516 words)

  
 Basic (dance move): Dictionary definition
The basic dance move is the simplest of all Lindy hop moves.
The basic dance move is common to all Swing dance forms.
The lead ducks under her arm to move it to the other shoulder.
www.encyclopedian.com /ba/Basic-(dance-move).html   (772 words)

  
 Swing out (dance move) biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The swing out or whip is the defining dance move of Lindy hop and West coast swing.
In social dancing, the lead looks over his shoulder to make sure that no one has stepped in the follow's way and she has room to finish the move.
Leads can move themselves forward on either the first 4 counts, the last 4 counts, or all 8 counts, and the follow remains in place, which shifts the position toward the lead, but leaves everything else the same.
swing-out.biography.ms   (4332 words)

  
 StreetSwing's Dance History Archives - THE BREAKAWAY Dance Page - Main1
The Breakaway was a cross between the "Texas Tommy, Two-step, Apache Dance, Turkey Trot, Cakewalk and Grizzly Bear.
Prior dances with the exception of the Apache and Texas Tommy did not have sections that you "Broke-away" from your partner (Danced in open position), they mainly danced in closed position.
The Landler of the 1720's also used a breakaway/ freestyle basic as a variation to the dance, it was almost described as a "solo Jam", done by the man.
www.streetswing.com /histmain/z3brkawy.htm   (407 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Apache (dance move)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Apache is a Lindy Hop dance move in which the man guides the woman's arm around her back at waist level, taking that hand in his other hand.
Lindy Hop is a street dance that evolved in Harlem, Manhattan, New York in the late 1920s through the early 1940s, that emerged with swing jazz.
This move is a setup for the woman to turn clockwise, unrolling her arm, or for the couple to pass each other while turning, resulting in the woman's arm being in front of her waist.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Apache-%28dance-move%29   (228 words)

  
 Blackspeak Online
Throughout the 1920s, women who danced the Charleston were known as “flappers” because of the characteristic way that they flapped their arms and strutted like birds as they danced.
Another dance of the early 20th century was called the "Apache Dance," which featured a behind-the-back-turn." Today, this move is what most people call the "Texas Tommy" (as it is known in Lindy Hop), or the "Apache Whip" (as it is known in West Coast Swing).
Maybe the move in general refers more to the style of shimmering and shaking of the shoulders, in the style of the Shimmy Sha-Wabble, as it came to be known in the American context.
www.etek.chalmers.se /~em1ganwj/flystep/blackspeak/vol13/blackspeak-2002v13a5.htm   (1451 words)

  
 Apache Women
When fighting broke out she was told to hide and not to move as people ran everywhere.
Her baby daughter, however, was murdered and shortly afterwards her husband was killed in a Comanche raid while visiting the Mescalero Apaches.
Finally, she found him engaged in a Victory Dance around a bonfire with her husband's scalp hanging from his belt.
www.peabody.harvard.edu /maria/Apachewomen.html   (482 words)

  
 Side pass (dance move) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The side pass is an essential move for (An energetic American dance that was popular in the 1930s (probably named for the aviator Charles Lindbergh)) lindy hop and all (Mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth) swing dances.
As noted side pass could be lead using both 6 or 8 counts, this uses different footworks, but the movement as described in previous sections are mostly the same.
This is useful in performance to present a specific angle to the audience or adjust to or from other moves.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/Si/Side_pass_(dance_move).htm   (1271 words)

  
 Canku Ota - May 3, 2003 - Ancient Dance Offers Girls a Passage to Womanhood
Under a fl kerchief, Ana Esquivel’s face is serious with concentration, but when her feet leave the ground in the dance of maíz, her smile briefly transforms her from a young woman into a very happy girl.
In the Xilonen year, each girl is required to maintain at least a C average in school, to attend the majority of rehearsals and performances, to lead dances, and to speak in palabra, the sharing circle at the close of rehearsals, and to the public at performances.
Like a dance for harmony and a prayer for respect, a flock of white swans passed directly over the altar, the beat of their wings in unison, the reach of their necks in symmetry.
www.turtletrack.org /Issues03/Co05032003/CO_05032003_Passage.htm   (1980 words)

  
 The Gang - /HOME
Dance moves that involve you or your partner leaving the ground.
Dance moves that form the basics of Lindy Hop.
Playful, creative dance moves that allow one or both partners to really stand out on the dance floor.
www.the-gang.ch /lindyhop/lingo   (1225 words)

  
 Apache Trail Circle Route by Tom Kollenborn
The Apache Trail was not an efficient roadway for moving goods from place to place.
For the most part the Apache Trail was a single lane road with occasional pull outs; however the roadway fascinated tourists who visited the area.
From Apache Junction to Government Well, a distance of seven miles, the most famous mountain in Arizona looms on the eastern horizon.
www.arizona-homes-real-estate.com /art-10-29-2002.html   (2815 words)

  
 Apache Indian War and Warriors
By 1688 the Apache groups customarily supplemented their hunting and cultivating economies with raids on settlements of the Mexican and, later, on the westward-migrating American settlers.
For generations, the Apaches resisted white colonization of their homeland in the Southwest, presently New Mexico and Arizona, by both Mexicans and North Americans.
When Apache scouts finally talked Geronimo into laying down his gun in early September 1886, the surrender was bloodless and strangely anticlimactic.
www.impurplehawk.com /warriors.html   (1359 words)

  
 Groucho (dance move)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The name groucho isn't universal, and different people call the move by different names.
On counts 3 and 4, while the lead moves the follow in front of the lead to face him, as they triple step.
All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
www.termsdefined.net /gr/groucho-(dance-move).html   (465 words)

  
 eXile - Issue #133 - Gittin’ Jiggy Wit’ It
Dance celebrates "mistaken" bombings and slaughters, such as the Sudanese pharmeceutical factory in 1998, which led to countless untreated migraines.
Dance celebrates the conversion of Afghan villages into moon-like craters of mud, straw, and meat.
Dance celebrates the arrival of another C-141 of unlawful combatants, fully shaven, barefoot, and bathed in halogen light.
www.exile.ru /133/133030000.html   (765 words)

  
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He kept their bodies together as they danced, moving to the driving beat in a way that would probably have earned an NC-17 rating in a film.
He let his mouth graze her bare shoulders and throat as they danced, and knew by her responses that she was feeling as feral as he was.
Duncan moved between Amanda's thighs and reached down to verify that she was as hot and wet as he'd suspected.
www.eecis.udel.edu /~masterma/sflaebs/stories/TrickOrTreat   (5968 words)

  
 Side pass (dance move)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The girl (follow) starts on one side of the guy (lead)and moves to the other side, usually in 6 or 8 counts.
For example, they couple may hold for 4 counts, do aside pass for 6 counts, and then hold for 6 more counts, so the side pass starts on count 5.
Dance move - Basic - Sugar push -Side pass - Swing out - Circle - Groucho - Skip up - Aerial - Charleston - Jazz
www.therfcc.org /side-pass-dance-move--330913.html   (909 words)

  
 Shag (dance move): Dictionary definition
Shag is an early dance, contemporary with Lindy hop.
Shag (from lead's point of view) usually the lead's left hand is up and the lead's left elbow touches the follow's right elbow.
Girl Spin: The girl can do overhead, free, or apache turns on the slows or the fasts.
www.encyclopedian.com /sh/Shag-(dance-move).html   (142 words)

  
 Apache (song) - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Apache was a popular 1961 instrumental song written by Jerry Lordan and recorded by British group The Shadows.
The name is most likely a reference to the Apache dance move, which was a popular dance step in the Lindy Hop.
The hip-hop group Grandmaster Flash interpolated parts of the IBB song "Apache" in their song "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash".
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Jump_On_It   (489 words)

  
 Viet Nam , Vietnamese , VietNam , Viet Nam Search , Vietnamese Search , Vietnam Search , Viet Nam Directory , ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Apache was a performace speciality of the popular 1910s dance performer Maurice...
Apache dancers were common in the lineup of night club acts.
apache dance n : a violent fast dance in French vaudeville (an apache is a member of the French underworld).
thptdongda.org /timkiem/vietnam6/apache-dance.html   (1258 words)

  
 PowWows.com Gathering - learn to dance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
I only know one girl who Fancy Dances, who I met at Milwaukee's Indian Summer Festival, but she travels a lot with Echos (www.fancydance.com), so I haven't been able to talk to her lately.
I useed to dance when I was youger but as soon as the competitio powwows became popular, my mom pulled me out, I tried to practice at home but being so young I didn't have the discipline.
And when I danced for the first time, it meant something because I was on a dance ground, on the pow wow grounds with women who had worked just as hard as I did on theyre regalia, and people whose hearts felt the same way as mine did when theyre feet hit those grounds.
www.powwows.com /gathering/showthread.php?t=7027   (1205 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Groucho (dance move)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 Tucson Weekly : cityweek : City Week
Move the Rock, a musical about a small Latter-Day Saint branch in a midwestern farming town, will be performed at 7 p.m.
This riveting exhibit features selected photogravures by Curtis, focusing on the Southwestern Apache, Mohave and Navajo tribes, among others.
Born in Wisconsin in 1868, Curtis eventually moved to Minnesota, where he found a job in a St. Paul photographer's studio.
www.tucsonweekly.com /gbase/cityweek/Content?oid=oid:42011   (1314 words)

  
 Inter Alia
She tours in the summers with dance workshops so that she can share her knowledge with and support local dance teachers who, she believes, are the unsung heroes of dance.
Selfless, tireless and capable in the education and promotion of dance, she is one of the visionaries for vibrant American dance.
The closing sentence of the article reads, “Selfless, tireless and capable in the education and promotion of dance, she is one of the visionaries for vibrant American dance.” Celebrating nearly a century of scholarship and service, Oklahoma City University is a comprehensive, private United Methodist-affiliated university with a liberal arts core curriculum.
oculawyer.blogspot.com   (9695 words)

  
 Timeline 1879-1882
He moved on to vaudeville and, by 1916, he was the wisecracking star of Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies." As a newspaper columnist and book author, Rogers poked fun at important people and events, and he was equally successful as a motion picture actor.
His remains were later moved from the Masonic Cemetery to Woodlawn Cemetery with a marble tombstone inscribed: Norton I...Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.
At Cibicue Creek, White Mountain Apache scouts were asked to campaign against their own kin, resulting in a mutiny against the army soldiers.
timelines.ws /1879_1882.HTML   (13985 words)

  
 Best move of the Open: Putting Birds Nest back   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
It belonged closer to the course, where golf fans could walk to the party without worry, where they could dance and move without fear of mosh pits.
She moved to the Valley just six months ago, and yet, already she's been schooled on the FBR Open and the Birds Nest.
She blames it on her dad, a golf nut, who's told her over and over and over that this is just the best thing happening at this time of year.
www.azcentral.com /sports/golf/05fbropen/articles/0128fbrnest0130.html   (755 words)

  
 Cliff Richard @ Soundbug
This was "Move It", written by Ian "Sammy" Samwell, who was the first new member of the group.
Another possible reason for the flip was that influential tv producer Jack Good, who grabbed the act for his tv show "Oh Boy!", said the song to be sung on his show had to be "Move It!" The single was flipped and went to number 2 in the charts.
Strangely enough, those who were initially sceptical of his move into other types of songs, later changed in their own beliefs and did similarly on their own records.
www.soundbug.com /artist/406   (1974 words)

  
 Side pass (dance move)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The side pass is an essential move for lindy hop and all swing dances.
Feet: She steps straight forward onto her left foot.
Feet: She steps forward onto her left foot.
www.ukpedia.com /s/side-pass-dance-move-.html   (896 words)

  
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Especially Native American relationships as I seek my roots in the Apache family or other family for all I have ever been told was that my gggradmother was Native American.
It was only after I was an adult and moved away from home that I realized how much of the way I was raised was in the tradition of native americans.
It was only after I was an adult and moved away from home that I realized how much of the way I was raised was in the tradition of na tive americans.
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 Basic (dance move)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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Although often used synonymously with "West Coast Swing", Lindy is in fact a different dance characterized by the swing out, often termed the "sugar push" and many times taught as the Lindy basic.
To lead an inside spin, the lead will raise his left hand across his body to just above the follow's forehead.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/basic__dance_move_   (934 words)

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