KARINA DENIKÉ OF DANCE HALL CRASHERS We didn't feel intimidated.
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Vybz Kartel is my favorite dance hall artist of our generation.
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She worked in a dance hall, dancing with men for money.
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Behind the fake eyelashes, these dance hall girls were dead inside.
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But the Senegalese dance hall and restaurant could be closed forever.
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A young couple dances at a Los Angeles dance hall, circa 1964.
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They bring it back and turn the Kipling salon into a dance hall.
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DANCE HALL DAZE I'm out of bed somewhere between 9 and 10:30.
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The space is designed in part to resemble a classic Texas dance hall.
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Wexiteers may be gathering at the Boot Scootin' dance hall for years to come. ■
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Like clockwork, every one of Rihanna's singles debuted as perfectly packaged, dance hall-primed hits.
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He'd been arrested for lewd conduct in a taxi dance hall a few years earlier.
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It isn't a rock room or a dance hall, and it's not a jazz club.
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I guess we'll go to our graves dancing the mambo in the dance hall scene.
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On a recent morning, the cast rehearsed a scene set in a Los Angeles dance hall.
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It was a dance hall over 50 years ago, in a building over 100 years old.
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The shimmering Sutton Foster plays the dance hall girl with the sunny disposition and the sunburned heart.
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Leigh Silverman will direct Ms. Foster in the title role of an eternally optimistic dance-hall hostess.
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His dance-hall girls struck attitudes and stayed in them, knees and elbows tensed, while they smoked.
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Sean Adler, 48, was a bouncer at the dance hall and a former wrestling coach, his team confirmed.
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I'm still not sure what it is, exactly—whether it's a dance hall or a pick-up spot.
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Dian Sierra having her photograph taken by a friend recently at the Broken Spoke dance hall in Austin, Tex.
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Twelve people were gunned down late Wednesday night at a country and western dance hall in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
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Drake's 2017 "More Life" mixtape celebrates London via the sound of its nightclubs: grime, house, dance hall and Afrobeats.
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Tia and Isaiah convinced everyone to go to the dance-hall-themed party in one of the resort's entertainment rooms.
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I saw some people say we need a dance hall like this all year round, but I'm inclined to disagree.
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Snapchat focused on taking over your whole screen with augmented reality, transporting you into space or a disco dance hall.
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He pointed out the dance hall ("a nice discotheque"), which is now a restaurant called Sokol, decorated with stuffed hawks.
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Mr. Simon wrote the book for this jazzy musical about a dance hall girl named Charity, played by Gwen Verdon.
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First up is this 220 play about a moralist who balks at selling his business to a dance hall proprietor.
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First up is this 2866 play about a moralist who balks at selling his business to a dance hall proprietor.
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Holographic Matrix is ambient dance hall bliss, with many of the 11 tracks patiently building beyond the 6-minute mark.
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It's 33:00 pm, and Miguel has arrived to the balcony of the dance hall with David, Maria, and their peeps.
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The restaurant, bar, and dance hall became as beloved in Sausalito as did her brothels across the bay in San Francisco.
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In "Dance Hall Bellevue" (1909-10), the turquoise and yellow walls of the building play against the blues below and above.
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But if you listen to some old Jamaican tracks, they use lo-fi as well, like the old dance hall tracks.
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Police said the incident started as an altercation inside the dance hall before spilling into the parking lot and erupting in gunfire.
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Ford also built a dance hall in hopes that his Brazilian workers would take to square dancing as much as he had.
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This year during TIFF, Nick Cannon's film King of the Dancehall rid the stereotypes of women's passive role in the dance hall.
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At the New Hyundai Core colatec, a dance instructor walked around the dance hall searching for dancers who looked lost or lonely.
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One had acquired an artsy dance hall in Texas as a residence, which included a bathtub in the middle of a bedroom.
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And I loved "The Singing Detective," a then-edgy TV series featuring depression-era dance hall numbers and a subplot involving psoriasis.
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"Climax" was a dance-hall musical of sorts: "'Fame' directed by the Marquis de Sade," as the Variety critic later described it.
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The set list features drumlines and spirituals and afrobeat and crunk and classical and dance hall and screw and big band music.
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During the summer, the Boilermaker's barn hosts banquets at the Wilderness Dance Hall, and it just wrapped up serving as Santa's Christmas Cabin.
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But for the whimsical animated sequences and Disney golden age style dance hall numbers, the real-life cast look intentionally green screened in.
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A D.J. is spinning dance hall tracks at a bar festooned with strings of multicolored balloons and draped with rose-pink metallic fringe.
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The city's dance hall Salon Lazaros packs in up to 4,000 every weekend, and house parties blast cumbia from Compton to Boyle Heights.
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"The Sugar Shack" (1976) depicts a riotous scene from a Durham dance hall the artist snuck into when he was 13 years old.
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Elsewhere, on the snotty "Famous," which features bits from Sister Nancy's dance hall classic "Bam Bam," Mr. West appears in the mood to shock.
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"Her husband gets his d— sucked at The Round-Up," Locken said, naming a popular country-western gay bar and dance hall in Dallas.
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Mangueira's pink-and-green building, typical of samba schools, is a two-story fortress surrounding an enormous courtyard that serves as a dance hall.
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Various jazz artists play at Ginny's Supper Club, the space beneath Red Rooster that becomes a dance hall late weekend nights into early morning.
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Participó en dos tracks de dance hall de su amigo C. Tangana y en sencillos de hip-hop de DJ Swet y Cálido Lehamo.
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Participó en dos tracks de dance hall de su amigo C. Tangana y en sencillos de hip-hop de DJ Swet y Cálido Lehamo.
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Within this dance hall environment are performances, an installation in the form of a Mylar sculpture, dance-based encounters and music provided by D.J.s.
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"[Cary's] husband gets his d— sucked at The Round-Up," Locken had said, naming a popular country-western gay bar and dance hall in Dallas.
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There was virtually nothing left of it, just remnants of a garden the guerrillas once maintained, in a clearing they'd used as their dance hall.
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" The cheap red paint on the wall of a dance hall is like a woman's lipstick, "faded and cracked by the end of the night.
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Festive, with a choppy, dance-hall sway, it was Aníbal González, a mourner from Ecuador, introducing his "yaravi," a song that speaks of the dead.
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Their passions led the siblings to Cal Lutheran in Thousand Oaks, also home to what became their favorite dance hall, The Borderline Bar and Grill.
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His contribution was "The Great Unrest," a monthlong performance in an abandoned, derelict theatre-and-dance hall in the south of Iceland, far from Reykjavík.
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Ms. Masuka's recording of "Into Yam" — the revue's closing number, and its only song to come from the black townships — became a dance-hall hit.
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Also a lot of dance hall and a lot of car tapes, weird Miami bass tapes that you would play to test out your car.
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A father and his two young children fiddled with Rubik's Cubes while Wang Chung blasted over a sound system, telling us about their dance hall days.
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Her father, Edgar, was a plumber, and her mother, Zoe (Hivon) Caldwell, was a taxi dancer, someone from whom dance-hall customers could buy a dance.
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Raised in what he called a "super Jamaican household" in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga, PartyNextDoor has long peppered his songs with dance hall sirens and slang.
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Dance hall reggae or ragga, a subgenre of reggae that Mr. Wine liked and produced, was not the kind of music embraced by the wider Ugandan society.
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Its successor begins with a similar scene, at a blue-collar dance hall where Giovanni, a metal worker, has gone on a date with his girlfriend, Liliana.
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The EPI happenings were first performed in the spring of 1966 at Polsky Dom Narodny, a Polish dance hall on St. Marks Place in New York City.
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Music surrounded her — from the sound of the organ at a local church to the brass music that emerged from the dance hall opposite her family's home.
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It will also always have R&B with varying degrees of shirtlessness — Trey Songz (partial) and Chris Brown (full) — and a military-precise injection of dance hall.
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In keeping with the dominant mood of New York City these days, the dance hall hostess known as Charity Hope Valentine has finally shed her middle name.
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The pair preyed on unaccompanied young people from July 1963 to October 1965, abducting them near a dance hall, from an open market and from a fairground.
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Looking at the ribald reverie in the painting, you can almost hear the band play as the heat generated in the dance hall radiates from the canvas.
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Its lyrical content is poignant with braggadocious, unapologetic statements either professing sexual prowess and street cred or used to usher in the newest moves for dance hall spaces.
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"Moulin Rouge was in the head of everybody," said Mr. Aznavour, who agreed to use the colorful dance-hall setting only if the show was about Toulouse-Lautrec.
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Marion Hall, a very successful female artist in Jamaica's male-dominated dance hall sphere, rivals the men with her sexually explicit lyrics under the alias of Lady Saw.
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Roseland Ballroom, the popular concert and dance hall on West 52nd Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, saw plenty of fishnet on its dance floor through the years.
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The show has confounded critics and audiences since it opened, in November, but its songs—sailors fighting in the dance hall, children immune to your consultations—are familiar.
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Fosse solved the issue of how to show the dance-hall girls drearily at work by having them stand at a railing and stare out at the audience.
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For late-night fun there's Atlantic Dance Hall, a nightclub that plays music from the 1980s to today, and Jellyrolls, a piano bar for those who enjoy singalongs.
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Sutton Foster gives an archetype-shattering performance in the title role of this willfully wan, small-scale revival of the 1966 musical about a hapless dance hall hostess.
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The work, called "The Prada Double Club Miami," is essentially a live-act temporary dance hall of two opposed spatial designs: one gray and colorless, one combatively hued.
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The musical is set in a dance hall, and depicts the mixing of African and Irish traditions that contributed to the development of tap as a dance form.
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Yet the theater's fortunes waned over the years — it was used at times as a movie theater, a dance hall, a basketball court and even a shooting gallery.
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The Republicans will be toasting Mr. Trump in a dance hall called the Emporium, on the same street as the crime scene, steps away from where Mr. Lucero fell.
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While no one is saying you'd need to fill a dance hall with your list of friends, at least make sure you keep relationships alive and even strengthen them.
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Transplanting the tale to nineteen-sixties New York, Fosse turned Cabiria into Charity, a youngish girl who works at the Fan-Dango Ballroom, a dance hall near Times Square.
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But before that success, Diplo spent much of the last decade as a globe-trotting, crate-digging aesthete who helped elevate dance hall and baile funk music in America.
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It's only really in the opera house, or in the theater, and sometimes in the dance hall, that the composer can initiate a discussion about social justice and politics.
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In an attempt to make the community of country fans comfortable, she set up free group therapy sessions at In Cahoots, a country music dance hall in San Diego.
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A few decades later, dancehall, named after the dance hall spaces the sound systems and parties were set up in, was created reflecting the lifestyle within the country's disenfranchised communities.
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Born in Grenada in 1956, Mr. Forrester graduated from the Royal College of Art, London, and has been steadily producing large paintings on the theme of reggae dance hall culture.
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Reward yourself with the bouncy "BY HOOK OR BY CROOK," by the reggae/dance hall queen Diana King: I like how the grid is made, considering the visual constraints here.
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In 2003, Lebermann and the arts patron Fairfax Dorn co-founded the arts and culture nonprofit Ballroom Marfa, creating a gallery and performance space in a converted 1927 dance hall.
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The gargantuan condos that have sprung up on both sides of the 52-year-old Texas Dance Hall make it seem like an apparition in the middle of poorly planned modernity.
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Robert, who "was never afraid to talk to anybody," married his sweetheart Lorraine in 1942 after meeting her at a dance hall, and they remained together until her death in 1996.
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Cooped up with her controlling aunt Ida after her brother sells their house upon their parents' death, Maud immediately searches for escape, going to the local dance hall, smoking, and painting.
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He stayed after the mine shut down and helped transform an old clapboard dance hall into the museum, which houses artifacts like antique mining equipment, midcentury home appliances and funeral dresses.
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He took on various odd jobs, including working as a disk jockey in a barra americana —a dance hall of questionable character—and playing an extra in movies that needed hippies.
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Written by Jack Antonoff, Swift, and Sam Dew, "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" isn't dance hall catchy (at least not without a remix); nor are the lyrics particularly clever, or even sexy.
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After conducting exhaustive research and interviews, rather than attempting to replicate the dance hall as it was, Wickerham & Lomax envisioned the collective memory as it currently exists: a mythic, disco-laden haven.
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The conflagration erupted one day after a U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran opened fire at a bar and dance hall in nearby Thousand Oaks, killing 12 people before taking his own life.
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Let's say, hypothetically, that there is a giant gay disco dance party at the end of the month where maybe, perhaps, there's a lot of making out in a sweaty dance hall.
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Here's what you need to know: At least 12 people, including a sheriff's deputy, were killed late Wednesday in a shooting at a country and western dance hall in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
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The couple met in August 1941 at a London dance hall when Jean was an 18-year-old English firefighter and air raid warden, and George was a 21-year-old Canadian soldier.
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On the liner notes posted on SVBKVLT's Soundcloud, the producer writes: Along with the album announcement, SVBKVLT has released the title track, a dark dance hall cut haunted by heavily processed disembodied voices.
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Reggae, dance hall, reggaeton, dembow, ska, other Afro-Caribbean beats and bits of trap percussion all percolate through the tracks, programmed along with synthesizer sirens and an occasional tickle of reggae rhythm guitar.
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Aurlus Mabele, the Congolese singer who was called "the king of soukous," the energetic dance hall music that blends traditional African and Caribbean rhythms with pop and soul, died on Thursday in Paris.
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Ailey's all-encompassing vocabulary included the athletes from the running tracks and the fly-girls from the videos, the swaying of church ministers and the hip-switching of Caribbean dance hall and carnival.
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"Out to the dance hall, cut a little rug/We're runnin' like wildfire, and hittin' that jug," he shouted on "We Wanna Boogie," en route to an all-out assault on his guitar.
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The label went on to put out cult classics like Horace Andy's "Dance Hall Style" and Love Joys' "Lovers Rock Reggae Style," which, despite multiple reissue campaigns, are still not easy to find.
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One album in, and almost 300K Twitter followers later, Rabbani is returning with "Alpha Male," 21-tracks of Rabbani's Afghani blend of Western dance hall banger mixed with traditional melodic structures of the region.
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In the early 1920s followers of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, promoting political and economic independence, built a complex of shops, a theater and dance hall they called the Renaissance Theater and Casino.
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Company XIV, the flirty collective created and directed by Austin McCormick, offers an adults-only interpretation of the tale and transposes it to a French dance hall where opera flair blends with burlesque naughtiness.
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Company XIV, the flirty collective created and directed by Austin McCormick, offers an adults-only interpretation of the tale and transfers it to a French dance hall where opera flair blends with burlesque naughtiness.
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I knew this from our dance hall lyrics — songs that tell our girls that something is wrong with them if they cannot perform in bed or if they resist the pain of rough penetration.
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Company XIV, the flirty collective created and directed by Austin McCormick, offers an adults-only interpretation of the tale and transfers it to a French dance hall, where opera flair blends with burlesque naughtiness.
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For proof, find your way to La Balera dell'Ortica, a sprawling dance hall complex on the eastern edge of the city that draws a wide cross-section of locals for dinner, dancing and bocce.
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A local dance-hall operator, a friend of June's father, was charged after his handwriting was found to be similar to that used in one of the ransom notes, but the case against him collapsed.
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Nothing seems alien to him; he captures the moral atmosphere of a sleek advertising agency, of a shabby West End dance hall, of a minor public school, of a shotgun wedding in an Irish pub.
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On A-Trak's Beats 1 show "Day Off Radio," the producer and Fool's Gold label cofounder premiered MSTRKFRT's "Little Red Hen," an infectious dance hall electro-boogie without the pretensions of crowd-pleasing builds and drops.
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Besides the Abracadabra Lounge, adults will also enjoy the Atlantic Dance Hall nightclub where there's a party every night, and Jellyrolls, a lively, and very popular, piano bar with dueling pianist and audience sing-a-longs.
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Ms. Kelly burst into the movies in 21968 in "Sweet Charity," an adaptation of the stage musical about an ever-hopeful taxi dancer — a dance partner for hire — in a run-down Times Square dance hall.
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Drawing equal devotion, from an indoor audience in a converted dance hall, was Lana del Rey, cooing through her hymns of vulnerability and obsession, who sent a frisson through her fans whenever she rephrased a melody.
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You can learn to dance at an old country-Western dance hall, then eat dim sum while listening to Wu Tang Clan, and then go waterskiing and jet right up to the bar for a drink afterwards.
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The gunman is also dead, officials said, adding that there was no longer a threat to the public after the shooting at the dance hall, the Borderline Bar and Grill, which was holding an event for college students.
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If you're looking to cut loose and escape the kids for a bit, check out Jellyrolls, a lively dueling piano bar that's open nightly, or Atlantic Dance Hall, a pulsating nightclub where you can dance the night away.
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More than 2,500 young people crowded into an outdoor venue in the capital, Islamabad, to a scaled down version of the event known for bringing together some of the hottest names in dance-hall, hip hop and electronic music.
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In the U.K., the blend of electronic and dance-hall music known as grime had an initial burst of popularity in the early aughts, then shrank inside its tight stylistic borders, threatening to become too serious to be fun.
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LINDSAY LOHAN&aposS MOM LOSES NEW YORK HOME TO FORECLOSURE The island beach hotspot is the latest in her business partnership with Greek restauranteur Dennis Papageorgiou, with whom the "Mean Girls" star opened her first dance hall in Athens in 2016.
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Lauren Balthrop "One of a Kind" This jam from Lauren Balthrop is the kind of thing I can imagine myself listening to in a dance hall that serves plates of barbecue with sweet tea and where people probably still smoke inside.
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The modified monument retains important objects of historic or scientific interest identified in the original designation, from areas with high concentrations of fossil resources, to geological wonders like the Grosvenor Arch, and important historic places, such as Dance Hall Rock.
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Though he has come up with some affecting character-defining choreography for Charity, should-be showstoppers like "Hey, Big Spender" (the dance hall girls' weary come-on number) and "The Rhythm of Life" (about a trendy religious cult) lack satiric oomph.
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So that night I avoided the mobbed dance hall parties like Weddy Weddy Wednesdays and went to Redbones Blues Cafe, the highly acclaimed venue for Bob Marley's musical heirs and a beehive of culture, art exhibitions, foreign films and poetry nights.
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In "The Ballroom of Romance," one of his most famous stories, a young woman caring for her crippled father looks for love in a dance hall but settles, week after week, for a few drunken kisses from a local bachelor.
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In the video, four women presented as flight attendants sing the song from "Sweet Charity," a musical about a dance-hall hostess, to a seated man, changing some words to include "Executive Platinum," the top frequent flyer status for American's frequent flyers.
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"At any given time, the club was a dance hall, a screening room, a watering hole, a theater lab, an art gallery, or a self-styled 'let it all hang out' encounter group," Ann Magnuson writes in MoMA's "Club 257" exhibition catalog.
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This track comes from a raucous dance hall scene, with a young Bolden and his band kicking up dust before a rapturous crowd, four horns improvising in a gallivanting tangle over a funky rhythm, always landing on the downbeat with a vigorous thump.
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She and her widely assorted collaborators are fond of 1980s punk and new wave — she exulted at performing on the Hammerstein stage where she had once seen her "favorite," Devo — as well as reggae, funk, hip-hop, Kraftwerk, dance hall, bhangra and electronic dance music.
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Aged 21923, they were charged with grievous bodily harm after attacking a rival gang outside a dance hall in Hackney; they were acquitted due to lack of evidence and some supportive words from the local vicar, but the die had long since been cast.
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That's likely what most of the audience paid more than A$100 to experience — not a confusing DJ set in an anonymous dance hall, but a chance to commune with an artist whose creative output through music, fine arts and technology has been so rich.
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Leo Fender, one of the electric guitar's trailblazers, worked with Mr. Dale to create a guitar sturdy enough to withstand his style — Mr. Dale called it the Beast — and an 85-watt amplifier that could crank up loud enough to fill a dance hall.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three weeks after a former U.S. Marine opened fire at a Western-themed bar and dance hall in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks, killing 12 people, police said on Tuesday they still had no clue what prompted the massacre.
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Verdon played the lead role (a gutsy hostess in a New York dance hall) in the musical on Broadway and received raves, but the producers at Universal thought they needed a more bankable (and younger) name to carry off the screen version and brought in Shirley MacLaine.
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The youngsters include Akeem Smith, with a dance hall video enclosed in a custom-built gate on the fifth floor, at Red Bull Arts (Booth 14), and, on the seventh floor, Sharif Farrag with an exuberant display of ceramic grotesques at Adams and Ollman (Booth 3).
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We'd do this differently next time: I'd spend more time exploring the BoardWalk, such as visiting the piano bar Jellyrolls or hitting the dance floor at the Atlantic Dance Hall, and I'd book a standard room so I'd feel less disappointed over the accommodations and price.
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A series of large-scale paintings by Enomoto Chikatoshi that celebrate a thriving dance hall in Tokyo exudes the luxury associated with Art Deco: the fan-shaped paintings — a traditional Japanese format — depict beautiful, confident dancers in Western dress against a backdrop of opulent golden paint.
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As scenes overlap each other like memories melding—from a garden to a grave, a swing dance hall to a buzzing neon club—you get the feeling that a young Molly held these memories in tightly cupped hands, letting nothing slip through her fingers, not even the blurry bits.
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The Beatles were then an unsigned dance-hall and bar band, and Mr. Barrow, who had moved to London and also had a job writing liner notes for Decca Records, responded that as a record reviewer he could do nothing for a band that had not made any recordings.
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Mr. Klein seems equally enamored of Duke Ellington's later work — when Ellington's orchestra was moving from the dance hall into the concert hall, without sacrificing its thunderbolt percussive power — and the tangos of Gardel and Astor Piazzolla, whose music didn't use heavy percussion but bloomed with persuasive rhythm anyway.
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Run by Karlos Knott, 53, whose paternal ancestors arrived here in 1780 from Quebec, Bayou Teche Brewing is an eight-year-old family-owned operation, situated on a piece of property that includes the four Knott family houses, a crawfish pond and a dance hall known as the Turnip.
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"The Ballroom of Romance," for example, one of Mr. Trevor's most famous stories, is about a rural Irish dance hall where solitary men and women, most pushing middle age, go every Saturday night in hope of finding love, and leave with the certainty that nothing will ever change.
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Fort Worth, Texas: 291 dead, 11 injuredAt about 1:1 AM, at least one unknown shooter opened fire on a man running out of Studio 2918, a nonprofit hip hop dance hall; he and about 2926 other people were in the venue without the owner's knowledge for an unauthorized party.
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My late West Indian-American mother, a single parent with four daughters, would have loved the Jamaican dance-hall sound that infuses "Hold Up," as well as the message that Beyoncé telegraphs in that song and others: that her life and, by extension, all black female lives, and bodies, matter.
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The story of a dance hall girl making her way in the world through a string of relationships, Sweet Charity is indelibly a Fosse musical — and the film is one of his slickest achievements as a director and choreographer, though at the time it was a major box office flop.
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Given the strength of its roster — which includes the Jamaican dance hall star Popcaan as well as the drum-and-bass stylist Jubilee — and its recent win in the Red Bull Culture Clash competition, it seems the label, which is based in Brooklyn, is poised to make itself known on a global stage.
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The style was born in Panama in the early '90s as a mix of Jamaican dance-hall reggae and rap, but truly exploded out of Puerto Rico, peaking around 2005 after the release of Daddy Yankee's "Barrio Fino," which would go on to become the best-selling Latin album of the decade.
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Playlist: "Donde Mi No Vengas" / "Yo Nunca Me Quedo Atrás" / "Soy Pelon, Muerte Yo Le Doy" / "Shaky Shaky" / "Watch Out For This (Remix)" / "Dura " / "Con Calma" / "Estás Aqui (Dance Hall Version)" Following 2008's Talento De Barrio soundtrack and Yankee's star turn in the movie, the reggaetonero seemed ready for bigger things.
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There was a dance hall, a movie theater, several bars, an apothecary, a grand bank building in Madison and another in Danville, and coal trains several miles long, chugging alongside the Little Coal River on the way to the Kanawha Valley, then the Ohio River, then out to the rest of the world.
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The fourth edition boasts a lengthy list of contributing artists, among them Uniiqu3, a Newark-based D.J. and vocalist who specializes in Jersey club, which is an up-tempo and heavily deconstructed genre of house music; and, from Toronto, the D.J. Nino Brown, who plays a blend of dance hall, soca and hip-hop.elsewherebrooklyn.
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Although lesser known than the movie's big stars — Sammy Davis Jr. also had top billing — Ms. Kelly more than held her own, especially in the seductive number "Big Spender" and the energetic "There's Got to Be Something Better Than This," in which the three dance-hall girls express their determination to get respectable jobs.
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" Curiosity drove her to take on the role of the genial dance hall girl Charity Hope Valentine in the movie version of "Sweet Charity," and it prompted her to drop any remnant of personal vanity as Aurora Greenway, the blowzy Southern belle and uptight helicopter-mom to Debra Winger's rebellious character in "Terms of Endearment.
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Along with Skrillex, he's one half of Jack Ü, and he kicked off Justin Bieber's dance hall renaissance; his studio, The Mausoleum, cultivated major works by M.I.A., Santigold, Shakira, and Christina Aguilera; his primary project Major Lazer has pumped out the dance song of the summer for nearly a decade; and he produced two tracks on Beyoncé's Lemonade.
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The French-Cuban musical duo Ibeyi performs with Sudan Archives and Orion Sun on June 8; Burna Boy (Nigeria) will bring his brand of dance hall to the bandshell, with the Zambian-born, Australian-based Sampa the Great on July 19; and the songwriter Nilüfer Yanya of Britain will open for a headliner (to be announced) on July 25.
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And what comes bursting from the speakers will grab you: a lengthy, live version of Hawkins's classic "Body and Soul," performed at the Fiesta Danceteria in Manhattan; the prattling, overpowering drumming of Chick Webb, electrifying the CBS studios as if they were a dance hall; and two full discs of Count Basie's orchestra in its prime, including a showstopping appearance at the Carnival of Swing in 21963.
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Besides "Sweet Charity" (1966), which starred Gwen Verdon as a goodhearted dance-hall hostess, and "Promises, Promises" (1968), based on Billy Wilder's film "The Apartment," Simon wrote the books for several other musicals, including "Little Me" (1962), featuring a hardworking Sid Caesar in seven different roles, and "They're Playing Our Song" (1979), which had music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager.
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