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    African dance (also Afro dance, Afrodance and Afro-dance) refers to the various dance styles of sub-Saharan Africa. These dances are closely connected...
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    African-American dance is a form of dance that was created by Africans in the Diaspora, specifically the United States. It has developed within various...
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    variety of dance styles have been developed; see Modern dance. African American dance developed in everyday spaces, rather than in dance studios, schools...
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    "thumb piano." African dance (also Afro dance, Afrodance and Afro-dance) refers to the various dance styles of sub-Saharan Africa. These dances are closely...
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    every part of traditional African life, and continues to affect African dance today. The second is griotic, and was a type of dance that told a story. It...
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  • DanceAfrica is a heritage and community celebration equable on the manifold dance forms of the African Diaspora held annually in New York City, Washington...
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    non-western dance cultures, such as elements from African dance including bent knees, or movements from the Japanese contemporary dance, Butoh. Contemporary...
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    The gumboot dance (or Isicathulo) is a South African dance that is performed by dancers wearing wellington boots. In South Africa these are more commonly...
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  • broadened the audience for dance. African American dances are those vernacular dances which have developed within African American communities in everyday...
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    this dance has become a global phenomenon that continues to evolve both stylistically and demographically. This style of dance arose from African American...
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  • self-expression through dance improvisation. Many other important tenets of dance improvisation come from and were innovated by the African American community...
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    (dance) Samba school Cox, James L. (April 2000). "Kariamu Weish Asante,African Dance: An Artistic, Historical and Philosophical InquiryAfrican Dance:...
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    sub-Saharan African dance for sustained one-on-one mixed-gender partnered dancing; African cultures apparently considered this type of dancing to be inappropriate...
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  • Come Dancing is a British dance contest show in which celebrities partner with professional dancers to compete in mainly ballroom and Latin dance. Each...
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  • also a notable member of the Katherine Dunham Company and performed African dance with Syvilla Fort. Chinn was born on July 7, 1948 in Seattle, Washington...
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    dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance which includes dance styles such as ballet, folk, ethnic, religious, and social dancing;...
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    berimbau was based on African instruments and developed by African-American slaves. An early depiction of slaves performing a stick dance is an 18th-century...
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    helps in the conduct of daily routines. Traditional African music supplies appropriate music and dance for work and for religious ceremonies of birth, naming...
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  • Pantsula (redirect from Pantsula (dance))
    dancing to the song. African dance Tofo Tofo Dance group Winship, Lyndsey (8 October 2018). "Pantsula revolution! How South Africa's townships dance got...
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    The jive is a dance style that originated in the United States from African Americans in the early 1930s. The name of the dance comes from the name of...
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    Ecstatic dance is a form of dance in which the dancers, sometimes without the need to follow specific steps, release themselves to the rhythm and move...
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  • Johannes Radebe (category South African male dancers)
    (born 27 April 1987) is a South African dancer and choreographer. Radebe was born in Zamdela, Orange Free State, South Africa. His father, who worked for...
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    by music. Tap dancing can also be a cappella, with no musical accompaniment; the sound of the taps is its own music. It is an African-American artform...
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  • African Electronic Dance Music received three nominations; Album of the Year, Male Artist of the Year, and Best Dance Album at the 28th South African...
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    Motsi Mabuse (category South African female dancers)
    is a South African-German dancer. She is known for appearing on the German dance competition Let's Dance, originally as a professional dancer, and later...
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    traditional Zulu dance from Southern Africa, synonymous with the Zulu tribe of South Africa and the Northern Ndebele tribe of Western Zimbabwe. The dance is characterised...
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  • American dancer and choreographer whose work focused on traditional African dance. He was the founder of DanceAfrica, the Chuck Davis Dance Company, and...
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    Katherine Dunham (category African-American dancers)
    between African and African American cultural expression. It was in a lecture by Redfield that she learned about the relationship between dance and culture...
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  • through which Primus sought to stylize and perpetuate African dance traditions by framing dance as a symbolic act, an everyday practice, and a ceremony...
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    Lindy Hop (redirect from Lindy hop (dance))
    The Lindy Hop is an American dance which was born in the African-American communities of Harlem, New York City, in 1928 and has evolved since then. It...
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