With order ahead, your drinks are ready for pick up so you don't even have to break your dance stride.
They are a hybrid leave-taking: No. 7, once popularized in transcription by the violinist Fritz Kreisler, is a skipping plantation dance with striding left hand; the obscure No. 4 begins, incredibly, with a bluesy foretaste of "Porgy and Bess," then circles back to Bohemian meadows and forests.
The pattern is annoying, but fortunately the dance finds its stride when music by Meredith Monk kicks in.
Over the last two decades, modern dance has made huge strides in Britain.
The plague strides, it dances, it howls, it bites.
Even in movements that were jarring, or aggressive — Nishimura's angular, spring-loaded phrases; Lieber's exaggerated, butt-out stride — the dance was somehow warm and enveloping.
Women roll alternate shoulders briskly while striding backward; men dance upside down on their hands as often as jumping upright.
As millions of viewers each week watch celebrities strut their stuff on television programs like "Dancing With the Stars," adults are meeting in clubs, churches, fraternal halls and historic buildings to find their stride on local dance floors.
Ponderous, thundering bass lines stride through a brisk dance, and slabs of chilly string chords are offset by fiery, insistent brass figures.
It arguably marked the first mainstream stride for machine-produced dance beats in the US, and as THUMP explored in March, it treated electronic music with as much importance as rock music in an exciting new way.
