Scandalous swirls like the Bunny Hug, Turkey Trot and Grizzly Bear may have even rattled President-elect Woodrow Wilson. To watch them being performed today, the Bunny Hug, the Turkey Trot, the ...
The Ute Tribe has held its traditional Bear Dance annually for what’s believed to be over 1,000 years, making it one of the oldest cultural customs practiced today. The dance is meant to welcome ...
It was by all accounts a peaceable disagreement, but intense nonetheless. Social dancing was the rage. Typically, Coltsville’s Dewey Hotel landlord Wood hosted an invitational in August 1899 with ...
Today is Wednesday, May 28, the 148th day of 2025. There are 217 days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On May 28, 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed ...
When George Drake (Law1905) attended the first annual charity ball in the university’s Armory building on Feb. 3, 1905, he carried a red, heart-shaped dance card to record his partners’ names for each ...
The ban on dancing and rock music in the 1984 classic movie "Footloose" sometimes seems to be a bit far-fetched. This type of ban, however, was not all that uncommon in many American towns and cities ...
Narrated by Mura Dehn; artists of the Savoy Ballroom of Harlem Teddy Brown, Sugar Sullivan, Jack Asquiew, Leroy Appens, Milton 'Oaky' Hayse, Clarence 'Scoby' Strohman; dancers of the Palladium ...
To watch them being performed today, the Bunny Hug, the Turkey Trot, the Grizzly Bear and other so-called "animal dances" of the early 1900s seem tame, tame, tame. But for a few decades, beginning in ...