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	Dance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dance (from Old French dance, further history unknown) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression (see also body language) or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting.
		Dance is also used to describe methods of non-verbal communication between humans or animals (bee dance, mating dance), motion in inanimate objects (the leaves danced in the wind), and certain musical forms or genres.
		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.
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		DANCING MASTER: There is some truth in what you say; but I find that you lean a little too heavily on money; and material interest is something so base that a man of good taste should never show an attachment to it.
		DANCING MASTER: When a man has committed a mistake in his conduct, in family affairs, or in affairs of government of a state, or in the command of an army, do we not always say, "He took a bad step in such and such an affair?" MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Yes, that's said.
		DANCING MASTER: If you want to salute her with a great deal of respect, you must first bow and step back, then bow three times as you walk towards her, and at the last one bow down to her knees.
	www.bradley.edu /academics/las/civ/Civ100/gent (13961 words)

	The History of Irish Dance
		Group dances were developed by the masters to hold the interest of their less gifted pupils and to give them the chance to enjoy dancing.
		It was not unknown for a dancing master to be kidnapped by the residents of a neighbouring parish.
		Dancing schools in Ireland today are filled with young pupils keen to imitate and learn the dancing styles which brought Jean Butler and Michael Flatley international acclaim.
	www.irelandseye.com /dance.html (1248 words)

	Dancing Online, History of Ballet
		A dance performance given in 1489 actually was performed between the courses of a banquet, and the action was closely related to the menu: For instance, the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece preceded the roast lamb.
		It was staged by Balthazar de Beaujoyeux, a violinist and dancing master at the court of Queen Catherine de M‚dicis.
		Marie Taglioni danced the part of the Sylphide, a supernatural creature who is loved and inadvertently destroyed by a mortal man. The choreography, created by her father, Filippo Taglioni, exploited the use of toe dancing to emphasize his daughter's otherworldly lightness and insubstantiality.
	www.ccs.neu.edu /home/yiannis/dance/history.html (2202 words)

	Victorian Dancing Etiquette
		The master of the house should see that all the ladies dance; he should take notice, particularly of those who seem to serve as drapery to the walls of the ball-room, (or wall-flowers, as the familiar expression is,) and should see that they are invited to dance.
		Gentlemen whom the master of the house requests to dance with these ladies, should be ready to accede to his wish, and even appear pleased at dancing with a person thus recommended to their notice.
		Ladies who dance much, should be very careful not to boast before those who dance but little or not at all, of the great number of dances for which they are engaged in advance.
	www.burrows.com /other/manners.html (2161 words)

	John Griffths, Dancing Master, 29 Country Dances
		All 29 country dances from America’s earliest known printed dance collection, printed in Providence, Rhode Island in 1788, are given in modern interpretation with suggestions on how to present the dances; Steps discussed; music with chords; full text of original included, plus historical notes and bibliography.
		This is an offprint of a study originally presented at The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife in 1984 and published in the proceedings of the conference: Itinerancy in New England and New York (Boston: Boston University, 1986).
		The dances were reconstructed by Charles Cyril Hendrickson in John Griffiths Dancing Master (JG-bk).
	www.colonialmusic.org /JG-bkcs.htm (245 words)

	The English Dancing Master
		For those of you not familiar with Playford's The English Dancing Master (1651), it was the first collection of popular dance tunes published in the British Isles.
		The other kind of English country dancing is the kind of dancing they do out in the country in England.
		Since there is not an unbroken tradition of country dancing, modern English country dancing is an educated reconstruction of the old dances.
	www.standingstones.com /playford.html (625 words)

	Dancing - Waltz to Victorian classics
		The Courante, a court dance performed on tiptoe with small jumping steps and many bows and curtseys, was considered by many to be a great part of social education.
		Because of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century forms, modern dancing was in a decadent state until 1912.
		The master of the ball should see that all the ladies dance, especially “wallflowers”, but this should be done with care not to cause embarrassment.
	www.victorianbazaar.com /dancing.html (1513 words)

	Dance Instruction Manuals: Complete Author/Title List
		Wilson, Thomas dancing master; An analysis of country dancing, wherein all the figures used in that polite amusement are rendered familiar by engraved lines.
		Wilson, Thomas dancing master; An analysis of country dancing: wherein are displayed all the figures ever used in country dances, in a way so easy and familiar, that persons of the meanest capacity may in a short time acquire (without the aid of a master) a complete knowledge of that rational and polite amusement.
		Wilson, Thomas dancing master; The quadrille and cotillion panorama, or, Treatise on quadrille dancing, in two parts: with an explanation, in French and English, of all the quadrille and cotillion figures generally adopted, as described by diagrams on the plate, by Thomas Wilson..; London, R. and E. Williamson; New York, Sold by Messrs.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/dihtml/dicatlg.html (6764 words)

	Dancing Master (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Dancing Master is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Paneurhythmy, the Sacred Bulgarian Dance of Life, that unites heaven and earth through a series of 28 easily learned movements in a rhythmic circular walking dance.
		Works by the lineage of Sahaj Marg Masters, published under the auspices of the Shri Ram Chandra Mission (SRCM), are difficult to locate, and beyond the abhyasis or practitioners of Sahaj Marg, few are aware that SRCM centers have been established worldwide since the Mission was founded in India fifty years ago.
	www.experiencefestival.com /dancing_master (800 words)

	Western Social Dance
		For example, there were manuals by well-known Philadelphia and New York dancing masters: Charles Durang's 1856 The fashionable dancer's casket; Edward Ferrero's 1859 The art of dancing; Thomas Hillgrove's 1863 A complete practical guide; William DeGarmo's 1865 The prompter; and the 1867 Brookes on modern dancing by Lawrence DeGarmo Brookes.
		Other popular duple-meter dances included the galop, schottisch, zulma l'orientale, and gorlitza, which were described by Ferrero in The art of dancing and by other authors.
		By the end of the 1890s, the most popular dances were the German, the quadrille, the waltz,and a new dance, the two-step, then often called the Washington Post (See Video Clip 7, and Video Clip 8), after John Philip Sousa's famous march.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/dihtml/diessay6.html (3033 words)

	The Tantric Crone
		The Master of Kung Fu Reports reached the Dalai Lama that a certain Master of Kung Fu was roaming the countryside converting young men to the study of violence.
		The dance of destruction, which he was always glad to perform in slow motion before an audience in the marketplace, was said to be awesomely beautiful.
		A flicking of the Dancing Master's foot at his genitals, and his penis was throbbing with desire, pushing to break loose from its leather-bound sheath.
	www.tantriccrone.com /newsletters/Vol2Num20.html (2247 words)

	James Scott Skinner - Dancing master and performer
		Skinner worked first in the Strathdon area as a dancing teacher, and in 1862 at a Highland Gathering at Bray near Dublin he won several prizes for dancing, including first prize for the Highland Fling where he beat the famous dancer, John McNeill of Edinburgh (Skinner, 1994:18).
		In 1868 he was teaching dancing in the Ballater area, and was requested by the Queen to start dancing classes at Balmoral for the children of her tenants.
		The appreciation of the audience reached its climax when the veteran danced a step or two to his own strathspeys and reels." (Skinner, 1994:66) Skinner was dubbed "The Strathspey King" for his skills as a performer.
	www.celtscot.ed.ac.uk /fiddle/skinnerdance.htm (608 words)

	John Playford, a Brief Biography
		John Playford is widely known in the SCA as the publisher/author of the acclaimed dance manual The English Dancing Master.
		In 1681, the king wrote a letter to the master and wardens that Playford and others listed be admitted to the court of assistants.
		Between political unrest and the periodic outbreaks of plague that threatened the city of London, people were beginning to seek refuge, education and leisure either in their homes or away from the city.
	www.pbm.com /~lindahl/lod/vol3/playford_bib.html (840 words)

	The Dancing Master's Guest Book
		I am writing a dissertation on theatrical performance and conceptions of identity in Renaissance England, and I have a chapter focusing on moments in plays when what is actually presented onstage and what those actions signify within the represented fiction of the play come together.
		I'm looking at music, dance, clowning, wrestling, processions, etc., so my "dance interest" might best be described as "onstage dances (including stage jigs)." Good luck with your project, and do keep me posted about any developments.
		The collection is a wonderful companion to the huge digital collection of dancing manuals at the Library of Congress - "An American Ballroom Companion" - see http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html I was surprised that the LC collection does not contain any of the Playford editions, since it does include other European texts.
	www.izaak.unh.edu /nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/gbook.htm (719 words)

	Return of the Dancing Master (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		And although The Return of the Dancing Master is a departure from his ever-better Kurt Wallander series - although it may as well not be, for how similar and ominously gloomy the two different protagonists are, it is just as excellent, and probably even better.
		The prologue gives us a vision of the executions of Nazi war criminals in 1945, and then in the first chapter we read terrified yet gripped by the throat as a scared, lonely old man's isolated home is assaulted in the dark, the windows shot out and he himself slaughtered.
		The Return of the Dancing Master is bleak, yes, but it is fascinating, chilling, with the traditional flawed-hero (just what IS it about these kinds of people???) and it's refreshingly unformulaic.
	www.armchairfans.co.uk /books/0099455463 (746 words)

	George Washington A Biography in Social Dance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It was the first printing of these group social dances that were to dominate Western ballrooms for the next 150 years.
		The unique or “Ur” dances were identified and collected into a database where each dance’s printing history and other information is summarized and a facsimile of the dance and its music is included.
		This CD-ROM was published by The Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the publication of John Playford’s The English Dancing Master (1651).
	members.aol.com /dance18thc/DMCDROM.htm (543 words)

	The Dancing Master, 1651-1728: An Illustrated Compendium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This database contains indexes, images, and figure descriptions of all the country dances, tunes, and songs in The Dancing Master published by John and Henry Playford and John Young in London from 1651 to 1728.
		This CD-ROM was published by The Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society in cooperation with The Colonial Music Institute on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the publication of John Playford’s The English Dancing Master (1651).
		It is published with cooperation from the English Folk Dance and Song Society, the University of Glasgow, the British Library, the Library of Congress, the University of New Hampshire and the Country Dance and Song Society who gave permission to include images from editions of The Dancing Master in their collections.
	www.colonialmusic.org /DM-cdr.htm (281 words)

	Ch Dancing Master of Anahassitt contribution
		Ch Dancing Master of Anahassitt was imported as a puppy by Mrs.
		He was the sire of one of the foundation bitch at Pocono, Ch Syncopating Sue of Anahassitt as well as the grandsire of another important bitch in Pocono pedigrees, Sunny Girl of Anahassitt.
		Percents are fraction of total pedigree that traces to Ch Dancing Master of Anahassitt; Numbers are number of times Dancing Master appears in a fully extended pedigree.
	bowlingsite.mcf.com /Percents/Dancing.html (104 words)

	Wehman's complete dancing master and call book: containing a full and complete description of all the modern dances, ...
		It is seldom that more than three figures of each are danced, viz.: first, second and third, in fact, at all balls where there is a long list of dances to be got through with, all quadrilles are generally reduced to three figures, with probably the sole exception of the “Saratoga,” which.
		Dancing is essentially French in its derivation and nature; and the French names and technical phrases will continue to cling to the figures and movements used in dancing.
		The variety of Contra Dances actually in use at the present day is very small; and it has been deemed advisable to incorporate under that head such other dances as are, properly speaking, neither quadrilles nor round dances, but assimilate in their arrangements more nearly to the Contra Dance than to any other.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /musdi/091/091.sgm (9597 words)

	The Very Best Books : The Return of the Dancing Master
		Henning Mankell's "The Return of the Dancing Master" is an outstanding piece of literature written in a manner that parallels its desolate, foreboding and depressing setting central and northern Sweden.
		Making connections, to solve a case and/or to save one's soul, is the essence of THE RETURN OF THE DANCING MASTER (if you're wondering about the title, I'll say only that tango steps are an important clue).
		And if your knowledge of Sweden is limited to Ingmar Bergman films, THE RETURN OF THE DANCING MASTER gives a visceral sense of the country: frozen lakes, deep forests, piercing cold, people who keep to themselves and stay warm as best they can.
	www.elise.com /store/Reviews/ItemId/1565848608/ReviewPage/2 (1586 words)

	English Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master 1651-1703 - The Broadside Band \| John...
		English Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master 1651-1703 - The Broadside Band
		Although far too early for dancing if you are a War of 1812 / Regency re-enactor [best if your time period is Jacobean to Restoration England]the music is lively, merry, stimulating and just plain fun to listen too.
		As another reviewer has mentioned, the tempo is not always optimal for dancing.
	www.this-is-great.com /info/xbfffffinal (386 words)

	View topic - 7 Tips To Master Salsa Dancing PART 1 - Salsa Forums
		By permission from Fernando Cruz of Salsa Rhythms, I'd like to share his "7 Tips To Master Salsa Dancing." This is Part 1.
		But your dancing has to be on the beat.
		dance floor has a lot to do with a good attitude on your part.
	www.salsaforums.com /viewtopic.php?topic=117 (1139 words)

	Playbill News: Master Builder, Dancing-Master, Hecuba, Measure, Mary Stuart Slated for New Pearl Season
		The Pearl Theatre Company — whose mission is to present works from the classic repertory — has announced its upcoming season (entirely pre-1900) which includes works by Henrik Ibsen, William Shakespeare and Euripides.
		Add to this fancy dancing, swordplay, and a healthy sprinkling of ribaldry for the full Restoration recipe" of Wycherley's satire.
		Sobel also directs this Euripides classic about the titular proud Trojan queen who seeks out vengeance for the murder of her daughter.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/93432.html (514 words)

	Would-Be Gentleman by Moliere
		I have made you wait a little, but 'tis because I am to be dressed out to-day like your people of quality; and my hosier has sent me a pair of silk stockings which I thought I should never have got on.
		I should be glad first to let you hear an air [pointing to his pupil] he has just composed for the serenade which you gave me orders about.
		These sort of pupils know as much as the greatest masters, and the air is as good as can be made.
	www.4literature.net /Moliere/Would_Be_Gentleman/2.html (485 words)

	Playford, John The Dancing Master
		The catches below were written sometime before the publication date shown, as they were to advertize the FIRST edition of The Dancing Master, which was published by John Carr.
		Playford collaborated on the catch's creation, although the idea for it is attributed to Sir John Eccles.
		Catch to advertize the initial publication of "The Dancing Master" in linear form (for learning purposes)
	www.oldmusicproject.com /Playford.html (220 words)

	The gentleman dancing-master by William Wycherley
		Poor innocent--Well, I am contented you should learn to dance, since, for aught I know, you shall be married to-morrow, or the next day at farthest: by that time you may recover a corant--a saraband I would say.
		Caution.] Your dancing masters and barbers are such finical, smooth-tongued, tattling fellows; and if you set 'em once a-talking, they'll ne'er a-done, no more than when you set 'em a-fiddling: indeed, all that deal with fiddles are given to impertinency.
		Indeed, father, my master's in haste now; pray let it alone till anon at night, when, you say, he is to come again, and then you shall see me dance it to the violin; pray stay till then, father.
	www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk /etexts/E000294.htm (16735 words)

	Queer The English Dancing Master: Or, Plaine and Easie Rules for the Dancing of Country Dances, With the Tune to Each ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The English Dancing Master has been most useful to our theater company in staging authentic ancient dance.
		The dance instructions are clear and make it easy for a small group to learn the dance.
		The dances are beautiful, and there is a wide variety of styles and partnering.
	queerpopculture.com /entertainment/asinsearch_0903102803 (309 words)

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