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 DANCE - LoveToKnow Article on DANCE
GEORGE DANCE, the elder (1700-1768), obtained the appointment of architect to the city of London, and designed the Mansion House (17,l9); the churches of St Botolph, Aldgate (1741), St Lukes, Old Street; St Leonard, Shoreditch; the old excise office; Broad Street; and other public works of importance.
George Dances fifth and youngest son, GEORGE DANCE, the younger (1741-1825), succeeded his father as city surveyor and architect in 1768.
His son, CHARLES DANCE (1794-1863), was for thirty years registrar, taxing officer and chief clerk of the insolvent debtors court, retiring, when it was abolished, on an allowance.
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 George Dance the Elder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Dance the Elder (1695 – 8 February 1768) was an English architect of the 18th century.
St Luke's, Old Street, where Dance worshipped and was later buried, is sometimes attributed to him but is likely to have been designed by John James and Nicholas Hawksmoor; however, he designed the adjacent St Luke's Hospital in 1750-1751.
Fifth son George Dance the Younger (1741-1825) succeeded him as city architect.
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 George Dance the Younger -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
George Dance the Younger (1741 - 14 January 1825) was a (The people of Great Britain) British (Someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)) architect and (An engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures) surveyor.
The fifth and youngest son of (additional info and facts about George Dance the Elder) George Dance the Elder, he came from a distinguished family of architects, (A person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination) artists and (Someone who writes plays) dramatists.
He succeeded his father as city surveyor and architect for (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London in 1768 when he was only 27.
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 George Dance the Younger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Dance the Younger (1741 - 14 January 1825) was a English architect and surveyor.
The fifth and youngest son of George Dance the Elder, he came from a distinguished family of architects, artists and dramatists.
Aged 17, he was sent to Italy to prepare himself for an architectural career and joined his brother Nathaniel, who was studying painting in Rome.
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The name of the dance is derived from the Tumbuka language term ganda which means "to march like soldiers." The name of the dance is also depicts the loud boom sound from the large marching band style drum that is used during the dance.
The dance is especially a good medium for social commentary and provides a valuable social opportunity for young men and women from different villages to meet, interact, know and admire each other.
The mganda dance is also a channel for community and individual artistic self expression that depict elements of joy, confrontation, political and social caricature and mimicry of the past and present expressed in the song lyrics and especially dance routines.
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 ipedia.com: George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
George Kenneth Hotson Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie (September 22, 1931–January 26, 2003), known to many as "Gentleman George", was a British politician whose long career as Conservative MP for Ayr (1964–1992) included periods as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1979 to 1986, and Secretary of State for Defence from 1986 to 1989.
Lord Younger of Leckie came from a Scottish family which had been making money from brewing since the 18th century, and which entered the aristocracy in the early years of the 20th century.
Younger quit the cabinet in 1989, and joined the Royal Bank of Scotland, being made a director in that year, and in 1992, he left life as an MP behind altogether, and became the Bank's chairman.
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 George Younger
Lord Younger came from a Scottish family which had been making money from brewing since the 18th century, and which entered the aristocracy in the early years of the 20th century.
Younger was the eldest of three sons of Edward George Younger (1906 - 1997), 3rd Viscount Younger of Leckie, by his wife Evelyn Margaret, née McClure.
Lord Younger quit the cabinet in 1989, and joined the Royal Bank of Scotland, being made a director in that year, and in 1992, he left life as an MP behind altogether, and became the Bank's chairman.
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 Nathaniel Dance-Holland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The third son of architect George Dance the Elder, Dance (he added the 'Holland' suffix later in life) studied art under Francis Hayman, and like many contemporaries also studied in Italy.
With Hayman and his architect brother George Dance the Younger, he was one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768.
He was commissioned to paint King George III and his queen, plus Captain James Cook and actor David Garrick.
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 George Dance the Elder -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
St Luke's, Old Street, where Dance worshipped and was later buried, is sometimes attributed to him but is likely to have been designed by (additional info and facts about John James) John James and (additional info and facts about Nicholas Hawksmoor) Nicholas Hawksmoor; however, he designed the adjacent St Luke's Hospital in 1750-1751.
Further afield, Dance also designed the Town Hall of (additional info and facts about Coleraine) Coleraine in (A division of the United Kingdom located on the northern part of the island of Ireland) Northern Ireland (1743; demolished in 1859).
Fifth son (additional info and facts about George Dance the Younger) George Dance the Younger (1741-1825) succeeded him as city architect.
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 Apollo: A catalogue of the drawings of George Dance the Younger is a highlight of recent books on architecture and ...
Dance was, moreover, a reticent, unpretentious figure, who published nothing himself, left no theoretical statements, and few letters: how different from other Georgian architects such as Gibbs, Paine, Chambers, Adam, and Soane, who all published their own designs.
The last portion of this magnum opus is devoted to the elder Dance, architect of the Mansion House, and Clerk of the Works to the City of London, a post in which his son, the younger Dance, succeeded him in 1768.
A catalogue of the drawings of the elder Dance is followed by a catalogue by Sally Jeffery of the drawings by both Dances for the Mansion House from 1738 to 1800; and finally by catalogues of the prints and drawings in the separate collections of the elder and younger Dance.
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George Gershwin was born Jacob Gershowitz on September 26, 1898 in Brooklyn, New York.
The son of immigrant parents, George became one of America's first premier composers and his compositions are still used today as tool of teachers everywhere as examples of the American entrance to the musical world of Stravinsky, Chopin, Beethoven and Mozart.
George began his professional career in "Tin Pan Alley," a location in New York City where aspiring composers and song writers would bring their scores to a publisher in hopes of selling the tunes for a modest amount of cash.
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 Encyclopedia: George Dance the Elder
Surveying is concerned with the application of mathematics and physics in obtaining accurate measurements for the determination of the position of points on the Earths surface.
Events Adam Smith is appointed professor of logic at the University of Glasgow March 31 - The future King George III of the United Kingdom succeeds his father as Prince of Wales.
Coleraine (Cúil Raithin in Irish) is a town in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland at the mouth of the river Bann.
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Dance's interiors were equally revolutionary, with his use of domed and 'star-fish' vaulted ceilings, and his interest in invisible light sources.
Of Dance's private house commissions, there are the library at Landsdowne House, Berkeley Square, and country houses at Stratton Park in Hampshire, Coleorton in Leicestershire and Ashburnham in Sussex, all of which contained startlingly new ideas.
Dance exerted a profound influence on the work of his one time pupil John Soane, who acquired his portfolio of plans, drawings and renderings, which form this display, in 1836.
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 Catalogue of the Drawings of George Dance the Younger (1741-1825) and of George Dance the Elder (1695-1768) from the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Catalogue of the Drawings of George Dance the Younger (1741-1825) and of George Dance the Elder (1695-1768) from the Collection of Sir John Soane's Museum.
LAVER, JILL.: Catalogue of the Drawings of George Dance the Younger (1741-1825) and of George Dance the Elder (1695-1768) from the Collection of Sir John Soane's Museum.
George Dance was a pioneering architect with an adventurous spirit who designed the first Neo-Classical building in England (All Hallows, London Wall), introduced the circus and crescent to London town planning, designed a prototype art gallery, and more.
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 George Dance, the Younger --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The youngest son of George Dance the Elder, who was clerk of works to the City of London from 1735 to 1768, the younger Dance received his formal training in the office of his father and during several years…
It is dance, a means of recreation, of communication—perhaps the oldest, yet the most incompletely preserved, of the arts.
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Since Hodges's skills lay in landscape, it was George Romney who painted in the reclining figure of Jacques, and Sawrey Gilpin, who excelled in animal figures, painted the weeping deer.
When George III, in December 1768, signed the Instrument of Foundation for the Royal Academy of Arts in London, artists in England may well have had hopes for vast improvements in training as well as in more extensive opportunities for exhibition and patronage.
Benjamin West was present, as were George Romney, as well as the publisher George Nicol, the poet Hayley, and Hoole, the translator of Tasso.
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 OUP: Catalogue of the Drawings of George Dance the Younger (1741-1825) and of George : Lever
As architect to the City of London and a founding member of the Royal Academy, Dance was an establishment figure and yet was considered by his contemporaries as a 'poet architect' who spoke of an 'Architecture unshackled'.
The designs at the Soane Museum include drawings made during Dance's six years in Rome, designs for churches, monuments, prisons, a major hospital, town houses and country houses as well as an art gallery, bank, law court, library, museum, and anatomy theatre.
Dance's eloquent buildings, which include the strikingly austere Newgate Prison, as well as his use of daylight, canopy domes, stripped forms and decoration had a powerful influence on his protege John Soane, who acquired his master's drawings in 1836.
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George Dance was a pioneering architect with an adventurous spirit who
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Described by C.R. Cockerell as 'the most complete poet-architect of his day', George Dance the Younger stands out as one of the pioneers of his profession.
Newgate Gaol (1770-80), with its forbidding exterior pierced by a doorway over-hung with iron shackles, was widely acknowledged as a masterpiece.
Dance's interiors were equally revolutionary: his use of domed and 'star-fish' vaulted ceilings and his interest in invisible light sources was to exert a profound influence on the work of his one-time pupil, John Soane.
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 George Colman, the Younger --  Encyclopædia Britannica
George Colman, the Younger, engraving by T.G. Lupton after a painting by John Jackson
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 George Dance
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 Royal Academy - TheBestLinks.com - Anatomy, Art, Architect, December 10, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Paine won, but Chambers vowed revenge and used his strong connections with the King to create a new artistic body, the Royal Academy, in 1768, formally launched the following year.
Its 40 founder members, all admitted on 10 December 1768, included a father/daughter combination (George Michael Moser and Mary Moser) and two sets of brothers (George Dance the Younger and Nathaniel Dance-Holland, and Paul and Thomas Sandby).
George Dance the Younger (1768; Academy professor of architecture 1798-1805)
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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Dance, George @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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Among his public buildings in London, the most important is the Mansion House (1739-52), an example of the neo-Palladian style.
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