Adagio Dancing
Adagio Dancing In the 1920s, acrobatic dance routines became extremely fashionable and the dances were either described as ‘whirlwind’ or ‘adagio’. But what does adagio mean? It is in fact a rather ambiguous word and as far as I can see it means many different things to many different people. It is applied to both [...]
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The Pony Trot
The Pony Trot The Pony Trot was an extension of the Pony Ballet allegedly devised by John Tiller in the 1890s and made famous by the Dolly Sisters in 1914 and thereafter as an exhibition dance. The Pony ballet was a type of kick-line routine developed by the British choreographer John Tiller sometime in the [...]
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The Apache
The Apache The Apache (pronounced Ah-PAHSH, not A-PATCH-ee, like the pronunciation of the Native American Indians) is a highly dramatic dance created in 1908 by Max Dearly and Maurice Mouvet. It became a hugely popular exhibition dance for several decades following its introduction but could be seen as politically incorrect in our times due to [...]
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