Dance hall in its general meaning is a hall for dancing, but usually refers to a specific type of twentieth-century venue, with dance clubs (nightclubs)...
12 KB (1,499 words) - 06:32, 16 April 2024
"Dance Hall Days" is a song by the English new wave band Wang Chung. It was originally released as a single in 1982 when the band was called Huang Chung...
12 KB (882 words) - 22:22, 19 June 2024
Dance Hall Crashers (often abbreviated to DHC) was an American ska punk band formed in 1989 in Berkeley, California. Initially founded by former Operation...
13 KB (1,462 words) - 03:37, 14 August 2024
When taxi dancing first appeared in taxi-dance halls during the early 20th century in the United States, male patrons typically bought dance tickets for...
32 KB (4,720 words) - 14:09, 17 August 2024
A taxi dance hall is a type of dance hall where dancers, usually young women, called taxi dancers are paid to dance with usually male patrons. The owners...
32 KB (4,757 words) - 00:09, 22 March 2024
Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A dance hall is a room for dancing. Dance hall or dancehall may also refer to: Dance hall (Jamaican), a music venue in Jamaica...
744 bytes (125 words) - 04:04, 21 August 2023
Dance Hall Of The Dead is a crime novel by American writer Tony Hillerman, the second in the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series, first published...
17 KB (2,309 words) - 20:26, 21 November 2023
Dance Hall at Louse Point is the debut collaborative studio album by English alternative rock musicians PJ Harvey and John Parish, released on 23 September...
9 KB (825 words) - 15:54, 10 July 2024
would not require a dance hall as large as those typically used for waltzes. Java takes the form of a fast waltz, with the dancers dancing very close to one...
2 KB (274 words) - 11:28, 22 August 2024
The Halling (hallingdansen) is a folk dance (bygdedans) traditionally performed in rural Norway, although versions of the halling can also be found in...
5 KB (516 words) - 18:56, 10 August 2023
The National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame, in the Saratoga Spa State Park, Saratoga Springs, New York, was established in 1986. It contains photographs...
10 KB (715 words) - 12:34, 2 May 2024
Dance is an art form, often classified as a sport, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often symbolic value, either improvised...
65 KB (7,587 words) - 19:16, 22 August 2024
Dance Hall Racket is a 1953 American film directed by Phil Tucker starring Lenny Bruce (who also wrote the script) and his wife Honey Harlow. A gangster...
3 KB (251 words) - 17:31, 6 May 2024
The Dance Music Hall of Fame was an organization established in 2003 to honor and remember significant contributors to the genre of dance music. It had...
6 KB (607 words) - 03:26, 6 July 2024
List of brothels in Nevada (redirect from Adobe Dance Hall)
tables and a bar inside the dance hall. There was an oak rail between the bar and the maple dance floor. Along one side of the dance floor were booths, each...
68 KB (7,239 words) - 06:30, 15 August 2024
The dance halls of Jamaica in the 1950s and 1960s were home to public dances usually targeted at younger patrons. Sound system operators had big home-made...
3 KB (436 words) - 20:30, 4 April 2024
Rule Dance Hall is an album by the Jamaican reggae musician Bunny Wailer. It was released in 1987 via Shanachie Records. The album was made with the Roots...
4 KB (307 words) - 02:42, 6 February 2024
Burton, Texas (section Dance Hall)
of cotton': Texas gin still working after 100 years". "Central Texas Dance Hall". Archived from the original on September 11, 2007. Retrieved May 19,...
10 KB (700 words) - 17:16, 27 July 2024
The Dance Hall (Swedish: Danssalongen) is a 1955 Swedish musical drama film written and directed by Börje Larsson and starring Elof Ahrle, Sonja Wigert...
3 KB (196 words) - 16:29, 7 May 2024
social dance music. During the early 20th century, ballroom dancing gained popularity among the working class who attended public dance halls. Dance music...
19 KB (2,139 words) - 14:20, 16 July 2024
2023 Monterey Park shooting (redirect from Star Dance Studio)
jacket, a black-and-white beanie, and glasses. Tran fired 42 rounds in the dance hall. An unnamed witness to the shooting told the media that the gunman began...
54 KB (4,409 words) - 19:14, 30 July 2024
Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall is a 1987 American short comedy film directed by Bryan Gordon. At the 60th Academy Awards, held in 1988, it won an Oscar...
3 KB (163 words) - 21:07, 17 March 2023
Simone Kirby, Jim Norton and Denise Gough. The title refers to a rural dance hall built by Gralton in his home town Effrinagh. It was selected to compete...
6 KB (516 words) - 20:27, 20 August 2024
completed a master's degree in anthropology, writing a thesis paper (Dance Hall of the Dead). In addition to anthropology, he has a lifelong interest...
6 KB (815 words) - 09:33, 25 July 2023
through the noise of the crowd and be heard throughout the dance hall. Electrification of the dance venues also allowed the fiddle to be played in a smoother...
18 KB (2,186 words) - 18:47, 23 August 2024
the dance hall. Throughout the course of a dance, couples progress up and down these lines, dancing with each other couple in the line. The dance is led...
51 KB (6,084 words) - 12:15, 23 May 2024
five top 40 hits there, all charting between 1983 and 1987, including "Dance Hall Days" (No. 16 in 1984), "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" (No. 2 in 1986) and...
21 KB (2,433 words) - 16:51, 19 August 2024
Craig Hall (born c. 1979) is an American ballet dancer. He danced with the New York City Ballet as a soloist until 2016 then became a repertory director...
9 KB (814 words) - 05:44, 31 March 2024
memories of his older sister, Rene, who died of a heart attack while dancing at a dance hall. The lyrics, sung from the perspective of an "East End barrow boy...
28 KB (3,101 words) - 23:52, 23 August 2024
Hillerman Middle School (part of Volcano Vista High School) opened in 2009. Dance Hall of the Dead, published in 1973, earned Hillerman the Grand Prix de Littérature...
28 KB (3,130 words) - 03:34, 24 July 2024