Dance

Dance

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Dance

A social gathering where the music is transmitted to people via wireless headphones rather than through a speaker system. Often the listeners can choose between different streams, and multiple DJs ...

Jig

Entertainment; Dance

Springy and sprightly dance. During the seventeenth century the dance was adopted in Ireland and Scotland, where it was widely adapted, and with which countries they are now most often associated.

Matachin

Entertainment; Dance

Spanish ritualised sword-dance or battle dance. The dancers are known for performing or reenacting a set drama based on the history of Montezuma.

Zapateado

Entertainment; Dance

Latin-American dance with rhythmic tapping of the feet. The term is also used to refer to percussive footwork in some Spanish/Latin dances that involve elaborate shoe clicking and tapping and to the ...

Veleta

Entertainment; Dance

English ballroom round dance for couples. Face line of direction (line of dance) and hold one hand. Women on the right. (Women always right.) Walk 3+3 steps and turn right to face each other. Hold ...

Volta

Entertainment; Dance

The volta is known as a Renaissane Dance which is claimed to come from both Italy and France. It was the first dance known to have a three-fourth beat. Volta is the italian word for turn but it is ...

Varsovienne

Entertainment; Dance

Polka-like Polish dance. The dance originated around 1850 in Warsaw, Poland. The dance was popular in 19th-century America, and quickly became a favourite folk dance in the Scandinavian countries as ...