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The first definition matches the musical term: stepping on (or otherwise emphasizing) an unstressed beat. For example, ballroom cha-cha-cha is a syncopated dance in this sense, because the basic step "breaks on two". An example for a syncopated dance figure is the lockstep in quickstep and waltz. When dancing to the disparate threads contained ...
Ceremonial dance is a major category or classification of dance forms or dance styles, where the purpose is ceremonial or ritualistic. It is related to and overlaps with sacred dance and ecstatic dance .
A woman twerking at a music festival. Twerking ( / ˈtwɜːrkɪŋ /; possibly from 'to work') is a type of dance that emerged from the bounce music scene of New Orleans in 1990, [1] which has a broader origin among other types of dancing found among the African diaspora that derives from Bantu-speaking Africans of Central Africa. [2]
Ghost Dance. The Ghost Dance ( Caddo: Nanissáanah, [1] also called the Ghost Dance of 1890) is a ceremony incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems. According to the teachings of the Northern Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka (renamed Jack Wilson), proper practice of the dance would reunite the living with spirits of the dead ...
Limbo (dance) A limbo dancer. A man participating in limbo in London. Limbo is a popular game, based on traditions that originated on the island of Tobago. The aim is to pass forwards under a low bar without falling or dislodging the bar. The dance originated as an event that took place at wakes in Tobago. It was popularized in the 1950s by ...
Dervish, Darvesh, or Darwīsh (from Persian: درویش, Darvīsh) [1] in Islam can refer broadly to members of a Sufi fraternity ( tariqah ), [2] [3] [4] or more narrowly to a religious mendicant, who chose or accepted material poverty. [2] [4] [5] The latter usage is found particularly in Persian and Turkish ( derviş) as well as in Tamazight ...
New York, NY: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. The cakewalk was a dance developed from the "prize walks" (dance contests with a cake awarded as the prize) held in the mid-19th century, generally at get-togethers on plantations where Black people had been enslaved, before and after emancipation in the Southern United States.
