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  2. Spinning dancer - Wikipedia

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    The Spinning Dancer, also known as the Silhouette Illusion, is a kinetic, bistable, animated optical illusion originally distributed as a GIF animation showing a silhouette of a pirouetting female dancer. The illusion, created in 2003 by Japanese web designer Nobuyuki Kayahara, [1][2] involves the apparent direction of motion of the figure.

  3. Silhouette - Wikipedia

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    Silhouette. A silhouette (English: / ˌsɪluˈɛt /, [1] French: [silwɛt]) is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is featureless, and the silhouette is usually presented on a light ...

  4. Dance positions - Wikipedia

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    Five basic arm positions. First position: the dancer stands as if holding a large, round object in front of the body, with a distance of one foot between their two hands. [6] Second position: the dancer extends both arms perpendicularly from the body in a T-shaped position, with the elbows facing back and the fingers curved slightly. [6] Third ...

  5. Positions of the arms in ballet - Wikipedia

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    Cecchetti method: First position: both arms are slightly rounded with the fingers slightly away from the dancer's thighs (as if grazing above the tutu). Second position: arms are out to the sides with an angle down and forward, palms facing forward. The elbow is slightly lower than the shoulder, and the wrist is slightly lower than the elbow.

  6. Conga line - Wikipedia

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    The conga line is a novelty line dance that was derived from the Cuban carnival dance of the same name and became popular in the US in the 1930s and 1950s. In order to perform the dance, dancers form a long, processing line, which would usually turn into a circle. It has three shuffle steps on the beat, followed by a kick that is slightly ahead ...

  7. Iranian dance - Wikipedia

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    Basseri dance is a traditional dance performed by the Basseri tribe who live in the Fars province. The dancers wear their traditional and colorful clothes. [18] Bojnordi dance: Bojnord is a village in the northeast section of Iran inhabited by a Turkic people. Men and women dance separately or together in Bojnordi dance, snapping their fingers ...

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  9. Positions of the feet in ballet - Wikipedia

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    The positions of the feet in ballet is a fundamental part of classical ballet technique that defines standard placements of feet on the floor. There are five basic positions in modern-day classical ballet, known as the first through fifth positions. In 1725, dancing master Pierre Rameau credited the codification of these five positions to ...