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    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)...
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  • "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...
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    Dance Hall Crashers (often abbreviated to DHC) was an American ska punk band formed in 1989 in Berkeley, California. Initially founded by former Operation...
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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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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    The Halling (hallingdansen) is a folk dance (bygdedans) traditionally performed in rural Norway, although versions of the halling can also be found in...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Dance is an art form, often classified as a sport, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often symbolic value, either improvised...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    of cotton': Texas gin still working after 100 years". "Central Texas Dance Hall". Archived from the original on September 11, 2007. Retrieved May 19,...
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  • The Dance Hall (Swedish: Danssalongen) is a 1955 Swedish musical drama film written and directed by Börje Larsson and starring Elof Ahrle, Sonja Wigert...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    The Mecca Dance Hall was an entertainment venue in Tottenham, London, England. The building was first opened as a roller skating rink in 1910, and the...
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  • Dance Hall is a 1950 British drama film directed by Charles Crichton. The film was an unusual departure for Ealing Studios at the time, as it tells the...
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  • 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...
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  • 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"...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    social dance music. During the early 20th century, ballroom dancing gained popularity among the working class who attended public dance halls. Dance music...
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    The jive is a dance style that originated in the United States from African Americans in the early 1930s. The name of the dance comes from the name of...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Dance Hall is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film directed by Melville Brown and written by Jane Murfin and J. Walter Ruben, based on the short story...
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