In many scenes outside the United States, the term "swing dancing" is used to refer to one, or all, of the following swing era dances: Lindy Hop, Charleston, Shag, and Balboa. This group is often exte ...
The term "Jazz" was first applied to a style of music and dance during World War I. Jazz in a dance form, however, originates from the vernacular dances of Africans when they were brought to the Ameri ...
As disco's popularity sharply declined in the United States, abandoned by major U.S. record labels and producers, European disco continued evolving within the broad mainstream pop music scene. Europea ...
Origins of disco as a term and type of nightclub By the early 1940s, the terms DJ and Disc Jockey were in use to describe radio presenters. Because of restrictions, jazz dance halls in Occupied France ...
Tap dance has roots in dancing such as the Irish stepdancing, English Lancashire Clog dancing, and Juba Dance. It is believed to have begun in the mid-1800s during the rise of minstrel shows. Famous a ...
The Greater Chesapeake area encompassing Virginia, Maryland, and much of North Carolina was the earliest and perhaps most influential location of the black-while cultural interchange that produced "Af ...
Humphrey was born in Oak Park, Illinois, but grew up in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of Horace Buckingham Humphrey, a journalist and one-time hotel manager, and Julia Ellen Wells, who had t ...
Graham was born in Allegheny City, which today is part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1894. Her father George Graham was what in the Victorian era was known as an "alienist", a practitioner of an ear ...
Marie von Sivers was born to an aristocratic family in W?oc?awek, Poland, then part of Imperial Russia. She was well-educated and was fluent in Russian, German, English, French and Italian. She stud ...
The gestures in the eurythmist's movement repertoire relate to the sounds and rhythms of speech, to the tones and rhythms of music and to soul experiences, such as joy and sorrow. Once these fundament ...
Early years and background Born to a Jewish father from Warsaw, Congress Poland, and a Russian Orthodox mother, she was originally named Cyvia Rambam. Her father and his siblings had to later change t ...
?mile Henri Jaques was born in Vienna, in 1865. The name ?mile Jaques Dalcroze was later adopted by himself. His mother, Julie Jaques, was a music teacher, so he was in contact with music since his ...
?mile Jaques-Dalcroze and the Origins of Eurhythmics Jaques-Dalcroze was appointed Professor of Harmony at the Conservatoire of Geneva in 1892, toward the beginning of his career. As he taught his cl ...
Ruth Denis was raised on a small farm in New Jersey, where she was drilled by her mother in physical exercises developed by Fran?ois Delsarte. This was the beginning of St. Denis's dance training and ...
Karoline Sophie Marie Wiegmann was born in Hanover, Germany.She came to dance comparatively late after seeing three students of ?mile Jaques-Dalcroze, who aimed to approach music through movement usi ...
