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Peasant Dance by Pieter Bruegel the Elder shows villagers dancing, drinking, and socializing outdoors near rustic buildings, with musicians playing in the foreground.
Whirling dervishes in white robes perform the Sema ritual in a circular hall with a wooden floor, as a large audience watches from balconies in Yenikapi Mevlevihanesi, Istanbul.
rock painting of a dance performance
waltzing couples
“Phaedra's Dream”
Jean-Georges Noverre
Oil painting by Edgar Degas showing ballet dancers in white Romantic tutus warming up in a dance studio, with instructors and a chair holding a fan in the foreground.
Split Sides
Polovtsian Dances
Kordax dance
How Fred Astaire Became a Dancer
The origins and evolution of break dancing
The beautiful dance traditions of Bali
Know about the ballroom dance club at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Observe Polynesian culture through dance performances telling legends of ancient South Seas people and gods
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Key People

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Igor Youskevitch
American ballet dancer
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Auguste Vestris
French dancer
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Yvonne Chouteau
American ballerina
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Michael Kidd
American choreographer and dancer
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Gower Champion
American dancer and choreographer
The King of Pop
Michael Jackson
American singer, songwriter, and dancer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
French composer
Janet Jackson poses with hands in pockets, wearing a gray suit and white shirt, in front of a blue backdrop with Grammy Hall of Fame Gala and Warner Records logos.
Janet Jackson
American entertainer
Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
Martha Graham
Martha Graham
American dancer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Mr. Entertainment
Sammy Davis, Jr.
American entertainer
Dmitry Shostakovich sits at a desk by a window, looking at sheet music, wearing glasses and a suit, with papers and books arranged on the desk.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Chubby Checker, wearing a suit and tie, dances energetically with one leg raised and arms bent, smiling at the camera against a plain background.
Chubby Checker
American singer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer

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