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National Museum, New Delhi, Delhi. Dancing Girl is a prehistoric bronze sculpture made in lost-wax casting about c. 2300 –1751 BC in the Indus Valley civilisation city of Mohenjo-daro (in modern-day Pakistan), [ 1] which was one of the earliest cities. The statue is 10.5 centimetres (4.1 in) tall, and depicts a nude young woman or girl with ...
Among the best-known of the Arab traditional dances are the belly dance, the ardah, and the dabke. [8] Traditional dancing is still popular among expatriate Arabs and has also been successfully exported to international folk dance groups all over the world. All dancers wear the traditional costume to embody the history of their culture and tell ...
Dance, Girl, Dance. Dance, Girl, Dance is a 1940 American comedy-drama film directed by Dorothy Arzner and starring Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, and Ralph Bellamy. The film follows two dancers who strive to preserve their own integrity while fighting for their place in the spotlight and for the affections of a wealthy young suitor.
Puellae gaditanae. Dancing-girl making a pirouette to the sound of the double-pipe. Puellae gaditanae ( Latin: 'girls from Gades') was the name that, by extension, the ancient Romans gave to all the female dancers from southern Hispania Baetica, whether or not they were from Gades ( Cádiz ).
The tau'olunga is a dance for single young women, especially for them to show off on their wedding day. It is rare--but not impossible--for a married couple or an older woman to do a tau'olunga. It is also rare to see a man perform the dance, but he can mimic the dancing girl's movements in an exaggerated manner to make her beauty more striking ...
245 p. Dancing Girls & Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, originally published in 1977 by McClelland & Stewart, [ 1] Toronto. It was the winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction and the award of The Periodical Distributors of Canada for Short Fiction. The collection's fourteen stories feature ...
The Dancing Girl (painting and silk cloth) in Lululaund mansion. The inscription says: Dancing is a form of rhythm Rhythm is a form of music Music is a form of thought And thought is a form of divinity. Date: circa 1900
The Dancing Girl (short story) " The Dancing Girl " (舞姫, Maihime) was the first published short story by the Japanese writer Mori Ōgai. The story first appeared in Kokumin no Tomo (People's Friend, 国民之友) in 1890, and is based on Mori's own experiences as a medical student in Germany. In some ways, this tale foreshadows Puccini's ...