BALLROOMS

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SIDEBAR - SAN FRANCISCO BALLROOMS — The Avalon Ballroom, the Fillmore Auditorium, Fillmore West, and Winterland: these four venues ushered in the modern era of rock …
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QUADRILLE — Dance for four couples in square formation, fashionable from the late 18th through the 19th century. Imported to England from …
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POLKA — Lively couple dance of Bohemian folk origin. The polka (Czech for "Polish woman") is characterized by three quick steps and …
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MINUET — Dignified couple dance derived from a French folk dance, dominant in European court ballrooms in the 17th–18th century. Using small, …
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COURANTE — (from Latin currere , "to run") Court dance of the 16th century, fashionable in European ballrooms into the 18th century. …
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INTRIGUE — I. ə̇n.ˈtrēg sometimes ˈin.ˌt- verb ( -ed/-ing/-s ) Etymology: French intriguer to puzzle, intrigue, from Italian intrigare to intrigue, from …
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MINAUDERIE — mēˈnōdrē noun ( -s ) Etymology: French, from Middle French, from (assumed) Middle French minauder to simper (whence French minauder …
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BAMBA — ˈbämbə noun ( -s ) Usage: often capitalized Etymology: American Spanish : a foot-tapping couple dance deriving from one of …
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THEATRE — also spelled theater in architecture, a building or space in which a performance may be given before an audience. The …
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SWING — in music, both the rhythmic impetus of jazz music and a specific jazz idiom prominent between about 1935 and the …
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SHIMMY — jazz dance that was originally popular among American blacks at least as early as 1900. Its movements consist of trembling …
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SAMBA — ballroom dance of Brazilian origin, popularized in western Europe and the United States in the early 1940s. Characterized by simple …
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QUADRILLE — fashionable late 18th- and 19th-century dance for four couples in square formation. Imported by English aristocrats in 1815 from elite …
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POLKA — lively courtship dance of Bohemian folk origin. It is characterized by three quick steps and a hop and is danced …
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MINUET — (from French menu: small), elegant couple dance that dominated aristocratic European ballrooms, especially in France and England, from c. 1650 …
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MERENGUE — French Mrengue, couple dance originating in the Dominican Republic or Haiti and danced throughout Latin America. Originally, and still, a …
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MAZURKA — Polish mazurek Polish folk dance for a circle of couples, characterized by stamping feet and clicking heels and traditionally danced …
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JAZZ DANCE — any dance to jazz accompaniments, composed of a profusion of forms. Jazz dance paralleled the birth and spread of jazz …
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GAVOTTE — lively peasants' kissing dance that became fashionable at the 17th- and 18th-century courts of France and England. Supposedly originated by …
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COURANTE — also spelled Courant (from Latin currere, to run), court dance for couples, prominent in the late 16th century and fashionable …
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CAKEWALK — couple dance that became a popular stage act for virtuoso dancers as well as a craze in fashionable ballrooms around …
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VIRGINIA REEL — spirited American country dance for couples. It stems from the rinnce fadha, a pre-Christian Irish dance that evolved into the …
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SIDEBAR - DETROIT 1960S OVERVIEW — Motown Records label. Even before Berry Gordy, Jr., brought Detroit to musical prominence in the 1960s with Motown Records, the …
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REYNOLDS, ALBERT — born November 3, 1932, Rooskey, County Roscommon, Ire. prime minister (taoiseach) of Ireland from February 1992 to December 1994. Reynolds …
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MONTGOMERY, LITTLE BROTHER — born April 18, 1906, Kentwood, La., U.S. died Sept. 6, 1985, Chicago, Ill. Little Brother Montgomery byname of Eurreal Wilford …
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MILLER, (ALTON) GLENN — born March 1, 1904, Clarinda, Iowa, U.S. died Dec. 16, 1944, at sea en route from London to Paris U.S. …
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BALLROOM — ( ballrooms) A ballroom is a very large room that is used for dancing. N-COUNT
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QUADRILLE — n. Dance for four couples in square formation, fashionable from the late 18th through the 19th century. Imported to England …
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POLKA — n. Lively couple dance of Bohemian folk origin. The polka (Czech for "Polish woman") is characterized by three quick steps …
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MINUET — n. Dignified couple dance derived from a French folk dance, dominant in European court ballrooms in the 17th18th century. Using …
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