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Spinning dancer. 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 ...
List of U.S. state dances. Many states of the United States have adopted official dances as one of their state symbols. The practice has extended to U.S. territories and Washington, D.C. [ 1 ] Starting in the 1970s, many states adopted square dance as their state dance, the result of a campaign by square dancers to make it the national dance.
Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance which includes dance styles such as ballet, folk, ethnic, religious, and social dancing; and primarily arose out of Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was considered to have been developed as a rejection of, or rebellion against ...
Cèilidh. A cèilidh dance in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. A cèilidh ( / ˈkeɪli / KAY-lee, Scottish Gaelic: [ˈkʲʰeːlɪ]) or céilí ( Irish: [ˈceːlʲiː]) is a traditional Scottish and Irish social gathering. In its most basic form, it simply means a social visit. In contemporary usage, it usually involves dancing and playing ...
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The United States of America is the home of the hip hop dance, swing, tap dance and its derivative Rock and Roll, and modern square dance (associated with the United States of America due to its historic development in that country—twenty three U.S. states have designated it as their official state dance or official folk dance) and one of the ...
American Rhythm. Bolero willy; East Coast Swing; Mambo; Rumba; Bachata; Cha Cha; Corridos; Cumbia; Duranguense; Forró; International Latin. Argentine tango; Capoeira ...
Valentin Aleksandrovich " Val " Chmerkovskiy ( Ukrainian: Валентин Олександрович "Вал" Чмерковський; born March 24, 1986) [ 2] is a Ukrainian-American professional dancer, best known for his appearances on the U.S. version of Dancing with the Stars, which he won three times. Chmerkovskiy is a two-time World ...