'''ISADORA DUNCAN, modern dance pioneer (1878-1927) '''
...onal, emotion-driven form that would give birth to a new American style of dance.
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The MARTINETTI TROUPE was one of San Francisco's earliest and most popular dance troupes. Its repertoire included "La Sylphide" but favored such frothy and
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...it was called and appeared in print in 1910. The most famous song for this dance was called King Chanticleer. for more information read Tom Stoddard's book
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...ress Caroline Chapman, who found success in her takeoffs on Lola's "Spider Dance."
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...isco native Darrell Rogers (b. 1945 in the Fillmore) describes the African dance scene he participated in during the mid-1960s at Hippie Hill with congas an
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...ctors - including Jeff Goldblum and Sessue Hayakawa - who had little or no dance experience.
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...it was called and appeared in print in 1910. The most famous song for this dance was called King Chanticleer. for more information read Tom Stoddards book '
...ng from the ragtime scene which had its most authentic expression in black dance clubs of the WWI era:
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While training with Biggerstaff, Mai met the dance duo of Wilbur and Jessie Tai Sing.
The Tai Sings’ sophisticated dance routines and glamorous costumes evoked the most famous dancing couple in th
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..., the Russian-born dancer tirelessly toured the world, inspiring a love of dance in all who saw her. She visited ballet-crazed San Francisco nearly every ye
...y a father who was himself a dance teacher, the three brothers pursued the dance wherever it took them--to dancing school, vaudeville, movies, and ultimatel
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'''AXIS Dance Company'''
...ities in the society? Two notable performance groups in the Bay Area, AXIS Dance Company and Sins Invalid represent those two separate directions of disabil
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....” In 1967, Cynthia won the prestigious Miss Chinatown crown, performing a dance choreographed by Dorothy Toy.
...with many of the nightclub dancers through the years and she continued to dance for her own health and enjoyment. In the 1990s, she was called upon to hel
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...in the afternoon, center-stage at the Yerba Buena Gardens, young Filipinos dance and do the Macarena to a more contemporary hip-hop beat. It's not always th
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...was a teenager, watching dancers on TV variety shows. She started taking dance lessons in high school, and then found [[Tony Wing|Tony Wing]]’s studio.
...performed with Takeuchi Keigo at Bimbo's, and he asked Isabel to join his dance troupe of Japanese-American dancers, The Geisharellas. Despite the name, K
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...with Anna Halprin, announced that were going to the Civic Center Mall and dance as part of the San Francisco Art Festival. I stop here to fill you in on A
...energy and rhythm of its owner’s speech as the upper lip propels it, is a dance. Our classes are not the usual torturous exercises followed by “improvisa
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...et in its formative years, Hartley's burgeoning interest in the history of dance and the performing arts led him to collect materials on the subject, partic
...collection was large enough that he formally established the San Francisco Dance Archives—a private collection available to the public, housed in his home
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Four members of the Family Dog commune put together the City's first big rock dance, featuring the Charlatans, the Jefferson Airplane (minus Grace Slick), and
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...an gave expressionist dance words through her books (''My Life, The Art of Dance''), speeches, and letters to the newspapers: "What I am interested in doing
In a period during which art dance was limited to entertainment, corsets, and a Ballet vocabulary, Duncan reve
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...r world appears more and more, and in increasingly non-traditional places. Dance mixes together various disciplines, including circus arts, performance art,
...ty that felt the impact. 10 years after the fire, with the appearance of a dance show at the site, members of the audience would join in with the performers
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...wn money. On a whim, she answered a newspaper ad for Walton Biggerstaff’s dance studio. At age 17, Pat joined Biggerstaff’s studio in 1953. She later ea
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...he bar, the other sits in a corner table—by the pool table overlooking the dance floor. My first impression is that I am in a room full of tomboys.
The band plays a song from Stevie Wonder—couples get up to dance. One girl looks like Prudence Pimpleton—Fearless Fosdick's girlfriend. Ve
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