Main article: Free dance1877: Isadora Duncan was a predecessor of modern dance with her stress on the center or torso, bare feet, loose hair, free-flowing costumes, and incorporation of humor into emo ...
Angela Isadora Duncan was born in San Francisco, California to Joseph Charles Duncan (1819–1898), a banker, mining engineer and connoisseur of the arts, and Mary Isadora Gray (1849–1922). Duncan was ...
Born Marie Louise Fuller in the Chicago suburb of Fullersburg, now Hinsdale, Illinois, Fuller began her theatrical career as a professional child actress and later choreographed and performed dances i ...
Relationship to art movements Although they may share the names of art movements, the dance forms may not relate to them directly. From an ideological and conceptual point of view the connections are ...
In addition to portraits, Louis commissioned at least twenty statues of himself in the 1680s to stand in Paris and provincial towns as physical manifestations of his rule. He also commissioned "war ar ...
Louis XIV was born on 5 September 1638 in the Ch?teau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye to Louis XIII and Anne of Austria. He was named Louis Dieudonné (Louis the God-given) and also bore the traditional tit ...
There are three main styles of Sri Lankan classical dance:The Kandyan dances of the Hill Country, known as Uda Rata Natum;The low country dances of the southern plains, known as Pahatha Rata Natum;Sab ...
In classical Sanskrit literature, Ayurveda was called "the science of eight components" (Sanskrit a??ā?ga ???????), a classification that became canonical for Ayurveda:(General medicine) – ...
The "Devil Dances" are an attempt to respond to the common belief that certain ailments are caused by unseen hands and that they should be chased away for the patient to get cured. If an individual or ...
There are three main styles of Sri Lankan classical dance:The Kandyan dances of the Hill Country, known as Uda Rata Natum;The low country dances of the southern plains, known as Pahatha Rata Natum;Sab ...
Sikhs are represented in Indian politics by the former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was the head of the government (the nominal head is the President of India) and wielded the supreme aut ...
Main articles: Sikhism and Sikh gurusSikhism considers spiritual life and secular life to be intertwined: "In the Sikh Weltanschauung...the temporal world is part of the Infinite and partakes of its c ...
Main articles: Economy of Punjab, Pakistan and Economy of Punjab, IndiaThe historical region of Punjab is considered to be one of the most fertile regions on Earth. Both east and west Punjab produce a ...
Pakistan is a federation of four provinces: Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, as well as the Islamabad Capital Territory and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in the northwest, ...
Varieties Community dance The origins of the community form of Bhangra are speculative and many. I.S. Dhillon believes Bhangra to be related to the Punjabi dance 'bagaa' which is a martial dance of Pu ...
