Dancing

Dean S.
With the popularity of Reality TV dancing shows "So You Think You Can Dance" and "Dancing with the Stars", here are some words related to dancing:
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  1. audience
    a gathering of spectators or listeners at a performance
    http://www.conservapedia.com/Audience An audience is the group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert. It can also mean the viewers of a film on DVD, or the readers of a book
  2. Bollywood
    the film industry of India
    http://www.conservapedia.com/Bollywood Bollywood is the name for the growing movie industry centered in Bombay, India.
  3. Broadway
    a street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square
    http://www.conservapedia.com/Broadway Broadway is the name of a street in Manhattan, New York City, known for its concentration of theatres; hence, 'Broadway' is a term used to describe popular (and especially musical) theatre in New York ...
  4. cha-cha
    a modern ballroom dance from Latin America
  5. choreographer
    someone who creates new dances
  6. contemporary
    occurring in the same period of time
  7. dance
    taking a series of rhythmical steps in time to music
    http://www.conservapedia.com/Dance Dance is an art and is a form of movement, motions, and steps. Dance is also a way of communicating, and has been around since the beginning of time. Dance comes in many different forms and categories. Such as the Waltz, Polka, Quadrille, Mazurka, Tango, Country Western Dancing, Irish Dance, Jazz, Charleston, Modern, Ballet, Breakdancing, Rumba, Salsa, Swing, Merengue, and many more.
  8. foxtrot
    a ballroom dance in quadruple time
    http://www.conservapedia.com/Foxtrot The foxtrot is a fast dance of the early 20th century consisting of four basic steps. The dance was extremely popular in the United States well into the 1950s. Its dancers are called trotters (male) and foxes (female), an analogy to fox hunting performed on horseback.
  9. hip-hop
    genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
  10. jazz
    genre of American music that developed in the 20th century
    http://www.conservapedia.com/Jazz Jazz is an American style of music that reflects Americans' roots in Africa and Europe and which originated in New Orleans during the early years of the 20th century. The first jazz recording was made in 1917 by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, who drew heavily on African-American influences, as well as the marching bands that were popular at the time. It combines African American music, ragtime, and the blues. Jazz is typified by complex collect
  11. jive
    a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s
  12. judge
    an official who decides questions before a court
    http://www.conservapedia.com/Judge A judge is a official charged with overseeing court cases and interpreting laws. A judge an instrumental part of common law governments, as they have the authority to make binding law. There are several different types of judges with different names in the United States.
  13. music
    an artistic form of auditory communication
    http://www.conservapedia.com/Music Music as an art, is a form consisting entirely of organized sound interspersed with periods of silence. It takes its name from three Greek goddesses known as the Muses, who specialized in stimulation of an artist's or poet's mind.
  14. pas de deux
    a dance for two people
  15. paso doble
    a ballroom dance in fast duple time
  16. precision
    the quality of being exact
    http://www.conservapedia.com/Precision Precision is an indication of how good the measuring device was in a measurement.
  17. quickstep
    military march accompanying quick time
  18. rhythmic
    recurring with measured regularity
  19. rumba
    a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement
  20. samba
    a lively ballroom dance from Brazil
  21. soundtrack
    sound recording on a narrow strip of a motion picture film
  22. split
    separate into parts or portions
  23. tango
    a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin
  24. tap
    strike lightly
  25. waltz
    music composed in triple time
    http://www.conservapedia.com/Waltz Waltz is a form of ballroom dance, performed to music with a 3 count rhythm - historically classical waltz music. Two popular styles of waltz are American-style waltz and Viennese waltz. Both are danced from closed position. The basic movement in American-style waltz is the box-step. Featured also are various swiveling patterns known as "twinkles". Viennese waltz is significantly faster than American-style waltz and features a succession of clockw
Created on Wed Sep 24 10:23:56 EDT 2008

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