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A dance engagements card in the form of a fan for 11 January 1887, showing a list of all the dances for the evening – valse , polka, lancers, and quadrille; opposite each dance is a space to record the name of the partner for that dance. After the event the card was probably kept as a souvenir of the evening. A dance card is typically a ...
Swingjugend An artistic depiction of the subculture from an exhibition at the Humboldt Forum Years active 1939–1941 Country Nazi Germany Influences Johannes Heesters The Swing Youth were a youth counterculture of jazz and swing lovers in Germany formed in Hamburg in 1939. Primarily active in Hamburg and Berlin, they were composed of 14- to 21-year-old Germans, mostly middle or upper-class ...
The Schuhplattler is a traditional style of folk dance popular in the Eastern Alps, specifically originating in Upper Bavaria, Tyrol, and Salzburg. In this dance, the performers stomp, clap, and strike the soles of their shoes ( Schuhe ), thighs, and knees with their hands held flat ( platt ). The more than 150 basic Schuhplattlers, as well as ...
Pages in category "German folk dances". The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Ländler ( German pronunciation: [ˈlɛntlɐ]) is a folk dance in 3. 4 time which was popular in Austria, Bavaria, German Switzerland, and Slovenia [citation needed] at the end of the 18th century. It is a partner dance that strongly features hopping and stamping. It might be purely instrumental or have a vocal part, sometimes featuring ...
6 June 2021. ( 2021-06-06) Let's Dance – Kids is a German children's dance competition television series that premiered on April 9, 2021, on the premium sector TVNOW and on the television channel RTL, which premiered on May 16, 2021. [1] [2] It is a spin-off of the Let's Dance series and based on the American version Dancing with the Stars ...
The number of different names for the same dance should not be surprising, as the dance is older than the modern German language. Neither should one be surprised that the tunes themselves have multiple names. One German dance researcher, Felix Hoerburger, catalogued 112 different Zwiefacher tunes with 474 different names.
Three German Dances, K. 605, is a set of three dance pieces composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in February 1791 in Vienna. History and the other German Dances [ edit ] Most of Mozart's German Dances were written whilst he held the position of Kammermusicus (Imperial Chamber Composer) in Vienna.