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Mostly retired from dancing after William's birth in 1929, Castle concentrated on animal rights activism. [25] Around 1930, "the best-dressed woman in America" presented serialized, quarter-hour radio dramatizations of her European travels with her husband, bulldog Zowie, and Walter ("father's coloured servant") around the capitals of Europe in ...
In trance, the women dancers enter, holding their kris daggers aloft. Trance and Dance in Bali is a short documentary film shot by the anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson during their research on Bali in the 1930s. It shows female dancers with sharp kris daggers dancing in trance, eventually stabbing themselves without injury. The ...
Pages in category "1930s photographs" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. ... Woman training for a Republican militia
The Animal Dance craze was directly related with the popularity of ragtime music (improvisational melodies with syncopated beats, from African-American traditions). There were an endless varieties of animal dance fads, such as: Horse Trot, Kangaroo Hop, Duck Waddle, Squirrel, Chicken Scratch , Turkey Trot , and Grizzly Bear .
And by the late-1930s there were arguably a hundred or more stylistic variations of the dance. [11] In the 1935 book entitled Textbook of Social Dancing, Lucielle and Agnes Marsh tell us that, "At the most exclusive Charleston Colonial Ball we found the debutantes and cadets doing what they call the Shag. This is a daring little hop and kick ...
Women were in hoop skirts, and turning dances helped to keep them out of the way. Dances popular during this period included the polka , schottische , two-step , and the waltz . Dance in the late 19th century to about 1910
A popular member of New York ragtime dancing circles, he especially enjoyed dancing the fast foxtrot, which was gaining popularity in 1915. Because of his huge girth, however, Officer Peabody was unable to hold his partner directly in front of him, so he held her on his right side in a manner known as the English or the right-outside position.
Pages in category "1930s dance films" ... Dancing Pirate; F. Four Hearts (1939 film) G. Gente bien; A Girl Must Live; K. King of Burlesque; M. Mi Buenos Aires querido ...