Dance Girl Dance is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film directed by Frank Strayer from an original screenplay by Robert Ellis. The picture stars Alan...
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(1977) - A legendary horror film directed by Italian Dario Argento where a new student at a dance academy/school for girls experiences strange goings on...
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That's Dancing! is a 1985 American compilation film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that looked back at the history of dancing in film. Unlike the That's...
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taxi-dance hall typically purchased dance tickets for ten cents each, which gave rise to the term "dime-a-dance girl". Other names for a taxi dancer are...
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The Dancing Girl of Izu or The Izu Dancer (伊豆の踊子, Izu no odoriko) is a short story (or, accounting for its length, a novella) by Japanese writer and Nobel...
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Dancing Girl of Izu (Japanese: 恋の花咲く 伊豆の踊子, romanized: Koi no hana saku Izu no odoriko, lit. 'The Blooming Love of a Dancing Girl of Izu') is a 1933 Japanese...
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Dance marathons (or marathon dances) are events in which people dance or walk to music for an extended period of time. They started as dance contests in...
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Dances with Wolves is a 1990 American epic Western film starring, directed, and produced by Kevin Costner in his feature directorial debut. It is a film...
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Shall We Dance is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich. It is the seventh of the ten Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers films. The story...
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Shall We Dance? (Japanese: Shall we ダンス?, Hepburn: Sharu wī dansu) is a 1996 Japanese romantic comedy-drama film directed by Masayuki Suo. Its title refers...
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Fred Astaire's solo and partnered dances compiled from his thirty-one Hollywood musical comedy films produced between 1933 and 1968, his four television specials...
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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...
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Sally Rand (category American female erotic dancers)
Hollywood films. She also conceived the bubble dance, in part to cope with wind while performing outdoors. She performed the fan dance on film in Bolero...
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Naima Akef (1929–1966), belly dancer, film actress Nagwa Fouad (born 1939), belly dancer Nadia Gamal (1937–1990), belly dancer, toured widely including North...
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Arabian riff (redirect from The Hootchy Kootchy Dance)
melody include "The Girls in France" and "The Southern Part of France". The melody is often associated with the hoochie coochie belly dance. "Melodia arabe"...
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Gene Kelly (category American jazz dancers)
International Film Festival for Invitation to the Dance. 1958 – Nomination for Golden Laurel Award for Best Male Musical Performance in Les Girls. 1958 – Dance Magazine's...
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Small Town Girl is a 1953 American musical film directed by László Kardos and starring Jane Powell, Farley Granger, and Ann Miller. Busby Berkeley choreographed...
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Nautch (redirect from Nautch girl)
(/ˈnɔːtʃ/, meaning "dance" or "dancing" from Hindustani: "naach") was a popular court dance performed by girls (known as "nautch girls") in later Mughal...
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Can-can (redirect from Can can dancing)
Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance" from his ballet Gayane (1938) and the music hall standard "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay". In 1955 Jean Renoir's film French Cancan, starring...
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Green, and Saul Chaplin, the music directors. The story of the film is interspersed with dance numbers choreographed by Gene Kelly and set to Gershwin's music...
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Tango (redirect from Tango dance)
Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The...
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Shirley Temple filmography (section Other short films)
Shirley Temple (1928–2014) was an American child actress, dancer, and singer who began her film career in 1931, and continued successfully through 1949...
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Street had been adapted into the successful 1933 film. The film includes the songs "Beautiful Girl" and "I'm Dancing on a Rainbow" with words and music by Nacio...
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Musician and dancer, Athens, 460 BC Greek dancing girl, 5th century BC Greek terracotta statuette of a dancing Maenad, 3rd century BC Veiled dancer, terracotta...
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Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer, musician and actor. He was an innovator in dance. He made 31 musical films, 10 featuring his dances with Ginger...
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Ruby Keeler (category American female dancers)
dancer, and singer who was paired on-screen with Dick Powell in a string of successful early musicals at Warner Bros., particularly 42nd Street (1933)...
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Ginger Rogers (category American ballroom dancers)
as a supporting actress in 42nd Street (1933) and Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933). In the 1930s, Rogers's nine films with Fred Astaire are credited with revolutionizing...
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Hermes Pan (category Best Dance Direction Academy Award winners)
Rogers. He worked on nearly two dozen films and TV shows with Astaire. He won both an Oscar and an Emmy for his dance direction. Born in Memphis, Tennessee...
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"Beautiful Girl" is a song with music by Nacio Herb Brown and lyrics by Arthur Freed, first published in 1933. It was originally written for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
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