Dance
This entry consists of the following articles:
Dance and Religion
Popular and Folk Dance [first Edition]
Popular and Folk Dance [further Considerations]
Theatrical and Liturgical Dance [first Ed...
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Dance, East Asia—Modern
Modern dance in East Asia—Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan—has a complex and varied history in the twentieth century. It is characterized by four main direc...
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Dance—India
Dance in India is as diverse as the multiethnic society from which it stems. Each region, with its own language, literature, customs, costume, and cuisine, has its own dance forms, ...
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Dance—Malaysia
Dances in Malaysia are categorized into court-classical dances, folk dances, ethnic-tribe dances, and dances from immigrant communities such as Chinese, Indian, and Portuguese, a...
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"Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education." - MLK Jr.
From the beginning of education reforms in America, there has been a steadfast effort by politicians to reduce the cost ...
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I cannot believe you have to miss the football game because of a dance competition, its not like it's a sport! Dance is a sport because it takes strength and endurance, it is competitive, and it requ...
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Dance the vision and make it plain, Habakkuk 2: 2&3, Ezekiel 33:7.
"Equal educational opportunity to all students means that teachers and schools promote the full development of students as indivi...
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Homeland Security: Congressional Republicans say they won't leave for the August break until gaps in surveillance law are filled. Democrats will probably vote for a rewrite, but not for the right r...
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In Motion Indeed (Fred Askew)
During a let-up in Saturday's cruel thunderstorms, a group of face-painted children, bubble-blowing adolescents, drum-thumping pot-bellied men and conga-lining wome...
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Canadian ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won Skate Canada on Sunday after American Melissa Gregory was injured and taken to a hospital.Virtue and Moir scored 99.62 points in the free dance ...
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The Darkest Spark, the first full-length from the Toronto-based music collective/indie-pop outfit the Ghost is Dancing, is an audio road trip for the listener. The Ghost is Dancing draws you throug...
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This year’s Fall for Dance Festival follows the pattern of last year’s, which was the first: At each of six performances, five different companies present a single work. Six performance...
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[Editor's Note: A somewhat murky clarification has been appended to this item on July 20th.]
When The Transom talked to Paula Froelich last week, she was jetting off to somewhere less humid and mo...
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