When she wanted to
dance to the right, the shoes would
dance to the left, and when she wanted to dance up the room, the shoes danced back again, down the steps, into the street, and out of the city gate.
Andersens Fairy Tales
Then he wanted the
dance to end that he might get rid of his partner.
The Mill on the Floss
`Thank you, it's a very interesting
dance to watch,' said Alice, feeling very glad that it was over at last: `and I do so like that curious song about the whiting!'
Alices Adventures In Wonderland
Anything, so long as we can dance to it!" From all sides her gift for playing the piano was insisted upon, and she had to consent.
From Mozart Rachel passed without stopping to old English hunting songs, carols, and hymn tunes, for, as she had observed, any good tune, with a little management, became a tune one could dance to. By degrees every person in the room was tripping and turning in pairs or alone.
The Voyage Out
Hinman taught a combination of ball room and folk
dance to both sexes at Chicago's Hull House as early as 1897, and ten years later, the Principal at P.S 15 in Manhattan crowed that some sixty "healthy, happy" fifth-grade girls in the Burchenal Athletic Club regularly performed fifteen Northern European dances, from the Irish Jig to the Hungarian Csardas, Swedish Frykdalspolkska, Russian Comarinskaia and a Minuet.
The cultural turn and a new social history: folk dance and the renovation of class in social history
Above all, always focus on relaxing into the stillness of the central axis while allowing the rest of the
dance to flow around it in a natural response to the music with which you are moving.
Belly dancing: the sacred art (and workout!)
"Women got tired of standing back," says Native American dance educator and elder Louis Mofsie (Hopi/Winnebago), "so they developed this
dance to say 'Look, we can dance as well as the men, maybe even a little better.'" Eager to share the arena with these newly assertive dancers, he continues, "As long as she has that shawl, a woman is considered properly dressed for any of the festivities."
In the spirit: today Native American women give the powwow some of its fanciest moves
They are asked to change their dancing, often with little practice, because after all, they should be able to
dance to any music, any tempo, with any partner, and still be graceful.
Dancing with teachers in classrooms: an exploration of what it means to teach
Tomko's study shows how much we have to discover about the centrality of
dance to our history, our culture, and our national identity.
Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920
This season, he's been commissioned by NYU/Tisch
Dance to create a new dance; with a space grant from Joyce SoHo he'll be making new work for his own troupe; and on April 29 and 30, he'll present some of it at the new Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space in New York.
25 to watch: Dance Magazine predicts who's new and breaking through for 2004
The city's ongoing offerings range from African, Middle Eastern, and Spanish
dance to Native American, Ukrainian, Chinese, and Korean
dance to American tap, contact improvisation, hip-hop, and jazz dance.
Philadelphia dances
Although, the innovative Dancing on Dangerous Ground, which put Irish
dance to the new service of narrative, closed prematurely in New York (with enthusiastic reviews from the likes of Anna Kisselgoff and Tobbi Tobias), never to reopen.
Colin Dunne: deconstructing Irish dance
The Reinharts traveled the globe in their search for new
dance to share with American audiences.
Transitions
The thirty-two-page softbound book provides the first age and developmentally appropriate guidelines for teaching
dance to children 2 to 5 years old.
Educators in the news. (The Teach-Learn Connection)