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Theme 2, Reader 1, Social Dance and Post-War Trend pg. 14 - pg. 29 -…

- - - - White exhibition ballroom team dances Rumba and Tango removed from their original context and set in the European Waltz/couple dance tradition. over sexual references modified and added lifts and spins from the ballet vocabulary.
        
        The result: ballroom dance style became popular internationally.
- - - - performed in white communities to white rock and roll music (derived from black rhythm and blues music)
      - continued popularity through the cold-war era
        
        Unpartnered dancers, same gender couples and mixed gender couples dance in the psychedelic atmosphere of colored, stroboscopic lights and stereophonic sounds at clubs (Electric Circus, New York and Electric Garden, London).
  - - - discotheques were to be found nationally and worldwide and bird from the local tavern or catering. Refurbished with a modern sound and light system. Cosmopolitan club that attracts movie-stars, professional athletes and royalty.
      - Non-stop dance music with a big throbbing beat, topped with crystal-clear, soaring high sounds carries by strings, synthesizers, brass and soprano voices.
        
        Dance is a measure of society
        
        Reflects the postindustrial, technological, computer-bound society of contemporary culture.
      - TV and film influences contributed to the dissemination of disco dance
        
        Soultrain, Solid Gold and Dance fever
        
        Film: Saturday Night Fever
        
        what originally been a black dance style to the mainstream audience
        
        Flashdance
        
        Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
    - - sometimes referred to as Salsa.
  - - - Innovations in lifestyle are mirrored by innovations in dance styles.
  - - - Harlem
        
        Deejays bring it to the street
        
        Hiphop culture:
        
        Rapping
        
        Graffiti
        
        Breakdancing
      - Breakers will performed rather than engage in social dancing. Series of spins and athletic maneuvers.
        
        Acrobatic feats, pantomime, slow motion gestures, accentuated by the freeze
        
        offers a penetrating, ironic comment on our technologic superstructure.
        
        ''I'll take your high technology, run it through my body and my culture and make it my own. It will not absorb me, but i'll absorb it and transform it. ''
- - - - Review by a serious dance critic showed the acceptance of disco and breakdancing styles by the mass audience
    - - audiences join the performance, dancing at their seats.
        
        could be considered a total environmental dance performance
  - - - allowing for more individual expression
        
        Jackson developed more personal dance style incorporating bits of break, rock and disco dancing.
  - - - black acts accused the network of turning down black videos because their target audience were withe.
        
        Ironically, 'Billie Jean, Beat it and Thriller put MTV on the map
  - - - features isolated body movements that reflect violent emotions.