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    Dance, Girl, Dance is a 1940 American comedy-drama film directed by Dorothy Arzner and starring Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, and Ralph...
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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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  • 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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    ballet was used in full in the Walt Disney animated film Fantasia (1940), albeit with ballet-dancing hippos (complete with tutus), ostriches, alligators...
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    Striptease (redirect from Exotic dance)
    Windmill Girl (1966) featured Pauline Collins and April Wilding and was directed by Arnold L. Miller. The film has some fan dancing scenes danced by an ex-Windmill...
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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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    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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    Prince Gives His Order and Dance of the Knights) Juliet as a Young Girl Friar Laurence (Romeo at Friar Laurence's) Dance (Dance of the Five Couples) Romeo...
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  • ballet dancer, Australian Ballet Marilyn Jones (born 1940), ballerina, director, Australian Ballet Dena Kaplan (born 1989), dancer, actress, film roles...
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  • The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney films Pinocchio and Fantasia. The top ten 1940 released...
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    fifty of Fred Astaire's solo and partnered dances compiled from his thirty-one Hollywood musical comedy films produced between 1933 and 1968, his four television...
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    succession of dancing nudes convey the feelings of emotional liberation and hedonism. The painting is often associated with the "Dance of the Young Girls" from...
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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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    Bangarra Dance Theatre is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance company focused on contemporary dance. It was founded by African American dancer and...
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    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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    Eleanor Powell (category 20th-century American dancers)
    February 11, 1982) was an American dancer and actress. Best remembered for her tap dance numbers in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s, she was one...
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  • musical, is present in this film as an instrumental during the Miss Teenage Hairspray dance-off. As with "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now", a version of "Cooties"...
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    Conga line (redirect from Conga (dance))
    The conga line is a novelty line dance that was derived from the Cuban carnival dance of the same name and became popular in the US in the 1930s and 1950s...
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  • "Do You Want to Dance" is a song written by American singer Bobby Freeman and recorded by him in 1958. It reached number No. 5 on the United States Billboard...
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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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  • - Cocoanuts 1929 - Music Box Revue 1930 - Girl Crazy 1932 - Hot-Cha! 1935 - Jubilee! 1940 - Boys and Girls Together 1935 - In Caliente 1938 - The Shining...
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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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    Waterloo Bridge is a 1940 American drama film and the remake of the 1931 film also called Waterloo Bridge, adapted from the 1930 play Waterloo Bridge....
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    Marge Champion (category American dance teachers)
    dancer and actress. At fourteen, she was hired as a dance model for Walt Disney Studios animated films. Later, she performed as an actress and dancer...
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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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  • 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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  • Michael Kidd (category American male ballet dancers)
    American film and stage choreographer, dancer and actor, whose career spanned five decades, and who staged some of the leading Broadway and film musicals...
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    Ruby Keeler (category American female dancers)
    talented girls were there. The stage was covered except for a wooden apron at the front. When it was Ruby's turn to dance, she asked the dance director...
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  • feature film debut of Shearer, an established ballerina, and also features Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine, and Ludmilla Tchérina, other renowned dancers from...
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