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Papuan tumbu tanah dance. Prior to their contact with the outer world the people of the Indonesian archipelago had already developed their own styles of dancing, still somewhat preserved by those who resist outside influences and choose tribal life in the interior of Sumatra (example: Batak, Nias, Mentawai), of Kalimantan/Borneo (example: Dayak, Punan, Iban), of Java (example: Baduy), of ...
Palais de Danse, St Ives, a former cinema and dance hall in St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK; PRYZM, Nottingham, a nightclub in Nottingham, England, formerly the Palais de Danse; Hammersmith Palais, also known as Hammersmith Palais de Danse, a former dance hall and entertainment venue in Hammersmith, London
Bambangan Cakil dance Barong dance. Bajidor Kahot dance (), a Sundanese dance which combines the dance movements of Ketuk Tilu and Jaipongan as the basic of its motions.; Bambangan Cakil dance (Central Java), a classical dance-drama of Javanese people which demonstrates wayang kulit performance.
The first was the Palais de Danse, a timber, arched roofed structure built in 1913 on the site later occupied by the Palais Theatre. In 1915, during WW1, management thought it more appropriate to show films instead, when it became the first Palais Theatre. [ 1 ]
The palais de danse was a term applied to purpose-built dance halls in Britain and Commonwealth countries, which became popular after the First World War. Other structural forms of dance halls include the dance pavilion which has a roof but no walls, and the open-air platform which has no roof or walls. The open-air nature of the dance pavilion ...
The site became vacant when Nottingham Prison was demolished. The building was constructed by the Midland Palais de Danse Company and opened as a dance hall and billiard saloon under the name Palais de Danse. The architects were Alfred John Thraves and Henry Hardwick Dawson [1] and the contractors were W. and J. Simons. The building featured a ...
Dance hall, popularly a palais de danse, in the 1950s and 1960s in the UK; Palais, French for palace. Grand Palais, the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées; Petit Palais, an art museum in Paris; Palais River in the French département of Deux-Sèvres; Palais Theatre, historic cinema ("picture palace") in Melbourne, Australia
The dance floor at the Hammersmith Palais de Danse around 1919. Built in 1910 on a site formerly occupied by a tram shed [3] for London United Tramways, the Brook Green Roller Skating Rink, [1] which may have been closed since 1915, [nb 2] was acquired at the end of the First World War by North American entrepreneurs Howard Booker and Frank Mitchell, [3] [4] to convert it into a place to host ...