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	Breakaway (dance) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		when in open position the dancers would improvise with Vernacular Jazz Dance moves.
		It was danced in closed position, when occasionaly the leader would swing out the follower into an open position, hence "Breaking away".
		From 1919 to 1927, Breakaway was a popular swing dance developed from the Texas Tommy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Breakaway_(dance) (148 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -II. Social Dance
		Into this category fell the great families of African dances that stressed individual improvisation, percussive accompaniments, and call-and-response song and movement styles—the vernacular Juba, and its sister form, the religious Ring Shout, animal dances like the Buzzard Lope, funeral and processional strut dances, and seasonal dances.
		Dancing in America tends to be age-specific, perhaps a national rite of passage; fourteen- to twenty-five-year-olds engage in the most dance activity.
		In part the result of rural migration to the city, dances were born in ghetto neighborhoods, and then, cleansed of anything sexually suggestive, they were adapted to the ballroom and from the ballroom, were transferred to the stage.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_022802_iisocialdanc.htm (1998 words)

	Tune Index - Furry / Flora / Faddy / Helston Furry / Helston Foray / An Maidhrin Ruadh` / John The Bone
		The furry dance belongs to the era of Cornwall`s History that represents the high point of Celtic culture along with the Gwary Myr (miracle plays), geese dancing, wrestling and the use of Kernewek as a vernacular language.
		Use of the word Furry and Faddy is much older, Furry probably coming from the Cornish for fair, as in the Fer Mo or St Ives Pig fair and faddy from the Irish `Rinnca Fada` meaning a long dance.
		Cecil Sharp visited Helston on 8th May 1913 and described the dance during the procession as `very irregular and slipshod`.
	www.an-daras.com /music/m_tuneindex_p_furry.htm (845 words)

	Dance-Course Catalog Bucknell University
		Designed to provide training and experience in the technique of jazz dance while placing the art form in its historical context as an American vernacular form.
		The six-credit program for an academic minor in dance is designed to provide a wide perspective and broad foundation for technical and theoretical experience for the development of disciplined, insightful artists.
		Quarter-course repeatable credit in DANCE 360 reflects significant faculty directed involvement in the Bucknell Dance Company; a maximum of one-quarter credit is permitted per semester.
	www.bucknell.edu /Academics/Academic_Offices_Resources/Course_Catalog/Optional_Minors/Dance.html (892 words)

	MIT OpenCourseWare Music and Theater Arts 21M.670 Traditions in American Concert Dance: Gender and Autobiography, Spring 2003 Syllabus
		For example, we will identify dances from an African American vernacular tradition that were transferred from the social space to the concert stage.
		From this we will trace a rise in performance venues; the Puritan resistance to dance as 'immoral'; and the breaking of tradition which allowed Isadora Duncan, Loie Fuller, and Ruth St. Denis to create a space for concert dance which was not ballet.
		Of particular importance to our investigation will be the construction of gender and autobiography which lie at the heart of concert dance practice, and the ways in which these qualities have been choreographed by American artists.
	ocw.mit.edu /OcwWeb/Music-and-Theater-Arts/21M-670Traditions-in-American-Concert-Dance--Gender-and-AutobiographySpring2003/Syllabus (509 words)

	Jazz Dance by Marshall & Jean Stearns
		The subject of vernacular dance is so vast that, after six years of research, we gave up all idea of telling the whole story.
		This scholarly work is essential for understanding the history of dance in America as it describes the cultural influences and performing environment for jazz dancers.
		This book covers swing, jitterbug, popular dances (of the '60s) such as the pony and others, as well as their antecedents.
	www.tapdance.org /tap/jazzdanc.htm (606 words)

	Blues (dance move) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blues dance, like most Black vernacular dances, enables intense individuality in expressing the music, emphasizing that the music, not the dancer, leads the dance; the dancer is simply the interpreter.
		However, Blues dancing was never widely practiced as a "social" or performance dance in the United States outside of the Black communities; so it developed and thrived in smoky juke joints and at Blues house parties, giving it a more intimate feel.
		In addition, Blues dance is strongly tied to Blues music, and many aspects of Blues dance (for example, call and response, emotional intensity, and tension and release) are directly related to the music to which it is danced.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blues_(dance_move) (339 words)

	CCSF Catalog Physical Education and Dance
		This course examines the use of the African American dance aesthetic by performers, dancers, choreographers, historians, and dance theorists, from the 19th century through 21st century, as they created and contributed to the idioms of modern, jazz, ballet, street vernacular and traditional African based dance forms in the United States.
		This course is designed to use the dance vocabulary of contemporary street funk, jazz, ballet, modern and traditional African dance to develop, increase and maintain cardiovascular ability, strength, muscular coordination, agility and postural awareness.
		Participation in theatre disciplines such as lighting, sound, stage management, set design and costuming; development of choreographing and performing skills to be used in a theatre or studio dance production.
	www.ccsf.edu /Catalog/Art/pecors.html (339 words)

	It's All Swing! - Lindy Hop/Balboa classes with Joel and Alison Plys
		Find out why vernacular jazz movement and the breakaway defined the dance we love.
		Pay for the Saturday night dance with your class registration and pay only 8 dollars for the dance.
		Tired of staying in one place on the dance floor?
	www.itsallswing.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2198 (339 words)

	Oh, Canada!(Canada Dance Festival)(Brief Article) - Dance Magazine - HighBeam Research
		Since its inception in 1987 and under the care of longtime producer Cathy Levy, this festival is beloved as the national party for dance insiders and everyday fans.
		When Brown finally broke stride, whether to rock across the stage in an unexpected worm borrowed from break-dance or to strap on in-line skates for a final silent glide as the lights faded, it was as if this starman had returned to earth--and the effect was of exquisite surprise.
		Finally, Brown placed Mongrain on a square, miked floor in the center of the stage, and the dance began: a citational riff on tap and the tricky exchange between performer and crowd.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:92136025&refid=holomed_1 (770 words)

	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
		But the language and rhythm are a hyper vernacular layered to feel improvised; the topic as well as the catalyst for disaster is musical style.
		It's all there in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" - the single locale, single day, and the hero with hubris destroyed by a fatal error of judgment.
		Levee watched eight white men rape his mother; Slow Drag watched a man of the cloth reduced to dancing at gunpoint for a white mob; Toledo loved and left when he lost patience with his wife's possibly not-so-innocent fascination with the church.
	www.nytheatre-wire.com /dc02122t.htm (952 words)

	It's All Swing! - Lindy Hop/Balboa classes with Joel and Alison Plys
		Find out why vernacular jazz movement and the breakaway defined the dance we love.
		Pay for the Saturday night dance with your class registration and pay only 8 dollars for the dance.
		The dance will feature the Peter Davis Band!
	www.itsallswing.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2198 (952 words)

	Leonard Reed's Original Shim Sham Shimmy - DVD - elfdepot.com Product Guide
		I'm a dance teacher at the University of Southern California (USC) specializing in American Vernacular Dances and a tap dancer as well.
		She teaches the dance just as though you were in a tap class: She explains the material, demonstrates it towards you, then breaks it down with her back to the...
		Secondly, Rusty Frank's teaching of the dance is clear, accessible, and proceeds at a do-able speed.
	www.elfdepot.com /shop/asinsearch_B0002PUDN2 (408 words)

	What's New at OCU?
		In 1987, she began extensive research on African-American vernacular dance with particular emphasis on black vocal groups, historically black college marching bands, and black sorority and fraternity song and dance rituals.
		The OCU American Spirit Dance Company Spring Show 2000 will be presented Thursday, March 9 at 8 pm; Friday, March 10 at 8 pm; and Saturday, March 11 at 2 pm and 8 pm.
		The 2000 "Living Treasure in American Dance" honoree Leonard Reed is a multi-talented performer whose career has run the gamut in show-business: dancer, producer, comedian, songwriter, arranger, master of ceremonies, choreographer, band leader, and director.
	www.okcu.edu /dance_amgt/news_02_14_00.html (1424 words)

	Streetswing.com - Dance History Archives - Main Dance Index - F
		Animal dance, Vernacular version Hips weave about in a figure 8.
		Arm dance variation of the Chicken and the Twist.
		Do inplace first extend left leg, then left arm, repeat opposite side.
	www.streetswing.com /histmain/z1f.htm (105 words)

	dance links
		Balboa, Bal-Swing, Hip Hop, Vernacular Jazz, Charleston and more!
		One quick reference to a multitude of dance opportunities in all styles throughout the
		teach you one dance move, concept, or styling.
	www.got2lindy.com /DanceLinks.html (222 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts reviews Dance Theatre of Harlem, Sadler's Wells, London
		While much of its movement is dominated by classical Indian and African vernacular dance - precisely calibrated Hindu gestures set against rippling spines and percussive stamps - moves from western ballet and modern dance are also stirred into the mix.
		While all the works in Dance Theatre of Harlem's first programme could have been danced by any other ballet company, those in its second feel as if they are the troupe's unique property.
		The work is a swirl of group dances, focused around a wedding ritual, which engage a panoply of carnival-coloured costumes, lighting and props.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/reviews/story/0,11712,837554,00.html (222 words)

	USIA, U.S. Society & Values, June 1998 - Suzanne Carbonneau, "Dance at the Close of the Century"
		One of the side benefits of modern dance s expansion has been the resurgence of interest in vernacular American music.
		While dance has always existed in the United States as a "folk" form a means of celebrating ethnic roots within this nation of immigrants there has been a recent tendency toward the professionalization of traditional dances in companies that follow models of modern dance and ballet.
		Reflecting its regional roots, the troupe is imbued with a Latin style as evidenced in the verve and spirit of its dancing, and in the large number of Hispanic dancers in its ranks, as well as in the contributions of its resident choreographer, Jimmy Gamonet De Los Heros, a native of Peru.
	usinfo.state.gov /journals/itsv/0698/ijse/dance.htm (3669 words)

	Obscure Stages -- An Annotated Theatre Bibliography
		A fascinating lesson in the debt owed African dance by virtually every popular dance craze since the cakewalk, as well as a history of African-American show business, analysis of the major vernacular dance forms, and biographies of vernacular dance pioneers and standouts.
		Useful source material (sheet music, performer photos and bios, a "working model" of a complete performance, including musical interludes) outweighs the gee-whiz unselfconsciousness which allows the author to use phrases like "shuffling old darky" without a hint of irony.
		Wittke's is the earliest serious academic treatment of minstrelsy that I've found, and continues to be cited on the Web and elsewhere.
	www.214b.com (3669 words)

	The Company
		A master of a variety of American vernacular dance styles from Tap to Lindy Hop and from Jazz, to Hip-Hop, Mr.
		Among his mentors are such legendary tap dancers as Fayard Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers and John Bubbles - the father of modern rhythm tap.
		While receiving a traditional show tap and all-around dance education, she was heavily influenced by the popular dance movies of the 1930's, 40's and 50's, and by Big Band music.
	www.usatap.org /cast.htm (2774 words)

	Popular Music and Society: South African music after Apartheid: kwaito, the "party politic," and the appropriation of gold as a sign of success
		Essentially a form of dance music, in its most common form kwaito is intentionally apolitical and represents music "after the struggle." The term "kwaito" also refers to a whole youth culture complete with vernacular and fashion norms.
		Essentially a form of dance music, in its most common form kwaito is intentionally apolitical and represents music "after the struggle." However, the term "kwaito" also refers to a whole youth culture complete with vernacular and fashion norms.
		Also, while kwaito is often associated with street culture--i.e., the black youth who still live in the poverty-stricken ghetto-areas created by pre-1994 racial segregation laws--on the other hand, partly due to the packaging and commodification of the genre, kwaito also represents the emerging black middle class and elite.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2822/is_3_28/ai_n15648564 (475 words)

	bhutan, Bhutan, triptobhutan.com, triptobhutan, trip to bhutan, kingdom of bhutan
		At Wangduephodrang, the demon Nyulema (vernacular : Yulim) wears a yellow mask and appears with atsaras before the dance.
		Dance of the Lord of Death and his Consort (Shinje Yabyum)
		This dance is generally performed like a play in two parts.
	www.triptobhutan.com /festivals_wangduephodrang_tshechu.htm (5476 words)

	William Morris Dancing
		I would like to think that had he lived a little longer, Morris would have inevitably been drawn into the folk song and dance revival, just as he was drawn into the revival of every other kind of traditional craft, from weaving and dying, to furniture making and vernacular architecture.
		Parallel to the revival in folk music came the revival in folk dance, and Morris dance.
		Folk music was the logical extension of this, and the early pioneers of the movement, if not linked to Morris personally were certainly working under his shadow, and carrying his spirit into another uncharted area of the arts.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/7138/literature/Dance.html (2001 words)

	Dancer History Archives by StreetSwing.com - Jack Cole - Main Page
		Cole had a back ground in East Indian dancing as well as an avid devotee of American Vernacular dances such as the Charleston and the American Lindy hop.
		Jack Cole began as a modern dancer with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn and later Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey.
		." Cole attended the Columbia University in New York, but after seeing a great performance by the Denishawn dance company soon left school to seek a dance career.
	www.streetswing.com /histmai2/d2jcole1.htm (2001 words)

	Dance-Dance History
		A mixture of agreed technical terms, subcultural vernacular expressions and idiosyncratic utterances representing every facet of dance.
		A brief history of the ballet is followed by an alphabetically arranged listing of more than 500 major ballets giving the plot, staging, choreographer, composer, date and place of the first performance, and the dancers that originally appeared in the work
		They will provide information about famous ballets, the history of dance in a particular country or time period, types of dance, important artists, as well as definitions of terms.
	library.gmu.edu /resources/fa/dancehistory.html (470 words)

	Agnes de Mille
		Choreographing some 15 musicals and 21 ballets, she was a significant force in a new American realism that mingled ballet technique, vernacular movement, and modern psychology.
		American Ballet Theatre - American Ballet Theatre, one of the foremost international dance companies of the 20th cent.
		Although there was more sentimental pleasantness than true originality in de Mille's choreography, her works did much to popularize serious dance with the public.
	www.infoplease.com /id/A0815124 (433 words)

	News
		June 8, 2006 - Voice and Text: A Composer's Language The written word within the context of a musical language is at once powerful yet reveals in its subtle nuances, a familiar vernacular.
		The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance.
		The Mozambique Project, concert version of Leon's dance/music collaboration with choreographer Donald Byrd, Mosaic and the National Song and Dance Theater of Mozambique.
	www.tanialeon.com /news.htm (1194 words)

	American Masters . Paul Taylor PBS
		Taylor was invited to join the Martha Graham Dance Company, where he began his professional career.
		Taylor shared their desire to bring the vernacular into high art.
		It was, however, with his own dance company, which he founded in 1954, that Taylor made his greatest contribution to the art of dance.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/taylor_p.html (1194 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Theater/Arts / Mark Morris troupe brings the music to life
		His vocabulary is, to put it mildly, eclectic -- one sees in it ballet, folk dance, vernacular dance, line dancing, martial arts, the movements of animals, birds, plants, and insects, and athletic accomplishment.
		All the Morris dancers are worth watching all the time -- and in Ozawa Hall you can do so because, due to a lack of wing space, they seldom leave the stage.
		It also brought a brief duo dance, "Beautiful Day" (to a cantata attributed to Bach), and the company's first performance in more than a decade of "Marble Halls" (to Bach's Double Concerto for Violin and Oboe).
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2004/07/05/mark_morris_troupe_brings_the_music_to_life (1194 words)

	Yakshagana
		The Yaksha Gana is certainly of interest and value not only to the theoretical researcher trying to understand the various forms of indigenous Indian dance and drama but also to the practical reconstructor who is trying to rebuild out of the many survivals the glory that was ‘Bharata Natya’.
		Yaksha Gana is full of this dance, and is worth study at least for this.
		The Yaksha Gana can be taken to be the common name of an old type of traditional, popular vernacular drama of South India, a name common to the three linguistic areas of Tamil, Telugu and Kannada and absent only in Malayalam.
	www.yakshagana.com /Research.htm (4044 words)

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