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The Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute created International Dance Day to be celebrated every year on the 29th of April. The aim of International Dance Day is to celebrate dance as an art form and to bring people together in peace and friendship through the shared language of dance.
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Maureen Marder, a construction worker by day and a dancer by night, signed a release with Paramount Pictures regarding her interest in the film Flashdance, which went on to gross over $150 million.
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The dance show "Tango Argentino" was created by Hector Orezzoli and Claudio Segovia.
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The Ballet "Sergeant Early’s Dream" was created by Christopher Bruce.
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Twyla Tharp created her dance piece In the "Upper Room."
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Frankie Yankovic won the first Grammy ever awarded for polka.
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In NYC the Macy’s Tap-o-Mania set a Guinness record.
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The dance show "Tango x 2" was created by Milena Plebs and Miguel Angel Zotto
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Hans van Manen, Dutch choreographer, created his ballet "Black Cake."
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n Malaysia authorities banned Mak Yong, a traditional form of dance theater.
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The Spanish flamenco duo Los del Rio, Antonio Romero and Rafael Ruiz, wrote the song "Macarena" that became a world-wide dance hit.
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Ushio Amagatsu choreographed the dance work "Yuragi," commissioned by the Theatre de la Ville de Paris, and premiered the work in Paris.
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In Ohio at the Oktoberfest in Cincinnati a record for the ‘World’s Largest Chicken Dance" was set with 48,000 people dancing.
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Gene Kelly, dancer actor and choreographer, famous for his part in the musical "Singin' in the Rain", died of complications from strokes at his home in Beverly Hills, Ca.
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In San Francisco the Joe Goode Performance Group celebrated its 10th anniversary with the opening of "The Maverick Strain," a spoken word and dance performance that explores the renegade impulse in American culture.
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Singer Bob Dylan, actor Charlton Heston, actress Lauren Bacall, opera singer Jessye Norman and ballet master Edward Villella shared the 20th annual Kennedy Center Honors in Washington D.C.
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Elizabeth Aldrich edited "The Int’l. Encyclopedia of Dance." The 6-volume work began in at a conference of dance critics in 1974 under founding editor Selma Jean Cohen.
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The show "Spirit: A Journey in Dance, Drums and Song" was composed by Peter Buffett. It was largely based on American Indian dance tradition.
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It was reported that the newest teen dance was called "freaking" and involved the partners, male behind female, thrusting to a hip-hop beat as in "Get Ur Freak On."