Tap was just one of the dance forms used by vaudeville performers -- there were also ethnic and character dances, choruses of precision dancers and exhibition ballroom teams (not to mention striptease routines and the Marvelous Ice Ballet, featuring Charlotte, Queen of the Steel Runners).
The couple, who met a decade ago as members of the Harvard ballroom dance team, paid $755,000 last year for a four-bedroom two-and-a-half-bath unit with a maid's room in the Riviera, a Renaissance Revival co-op with a marble lobby.
As the leading ballroom dance team in the United States, Veloz and Yolanda made US$8,500 in one week in Chicago in 1939.
As the years progress, Luke and "2" become a competitive ballroom dancing team on the brink of winning an international competition.
BYU's Ballroom dance team has won first place in Latin or Standard (or both) many times when they have competed at the Blackpool Dance Festival, they were the first U.S. team to win the formation championships at the famed British Championships in Blackpool England in 1972.
Also a great ballroom-dancing team, whose specialty is doing the merengue while performing kidney transplants.
The BYU Ballroom Dance Company is known as one of the best formation ballroom dance teams in the world, having won the U.S. National Formation Dance Championship every year since 1982.
In Long Beach, he began booking local punk, alternative and other underground shows at the Rumble Seat Garage and then Fenders Ballroom before teaming with Folgner in 1986 to make the Coach House and, later, the Galaxy, destinations for nationally touring musicians.
Even in the depths of war in occupied France, Florence Waren and Frederic Apcar — or "Florence et Frederic," as they were billed — dazzled Paris, he in tails, she in jeweled gowns with flowers in her hair, the two of them gliding and swirling across the stage as one of the most famous ballroom-dance teams in Europe.
In the ballroom at the team hotel Friday night, Marrone challenged the defensive players in particular, telling them they would need a spectacular effort to beat West Virginia for a third time in three years.
When band practice began that afternoon, in a ballroom at the team hotel, he told his musicians that he was upset with the way they had cheered in the second half of V.C.U.'s victory.
