Sentence examples for tradition of dance from inspiring English sources

Iran is perhaps the only Muslim country with a tradition of dance regarded as an art form.

There is something in most all of Michael's work where he innovates from within the tradition of dance using contemporary references.

Ms. Cavallo, a slim, polished dancer with beautiful tapered line in her arabesques, has drawn something from the Danish ballet tradition of dance acting.

The langue d'oïl had a tradition of dance and spinning songs before the troubadours exerted by the mid-12th century an influence encouraged by, among others, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Guilhelm IX's granddaughter and queen of France and later England (as the wife of Henry II).

But it skips other obvious roots of hip-hop's verbal dexterity: gospel preaching, ribald party-record comedy, the rhyming insults called "the dozens," the pimp and gangster stereotypes of blaxploitation movies and the Jamaican tradition of dance hall D.J.'s toasting, or rhyming, over records.

Constance Valis Hill (2003) includes "challenge dance" performances, stemming from the African-American tradition of dance "battles", where the purpose is to win an ever-escalating competition of skill and style.

Even after forms reached maturity, traditions of dance, acting, and music were passed on orally to the next generation.

He is an example of what still remains something of a holy grail: the arrival of an American vocalist steeped in the traditions of dance music who has enough ambition for the pop charts.

Nevertheless, there has been an active tradition of folk dance in most Islamic countries, in addition to dancing as an entertainment spectacle and, particularly in Persia, as an art form.

The program notes credit Ms. Haddad with freeing the raqs sharqi, or belly dance, "from the degrading connotations of the past" as she has "revived the dignity and tradition of Oriental dance and conveyed its latent sensuality".

On one side they were part of an American tradition of "black dance".