Falling for folk dance.On November 10, the young dancers of San Francisco-based Presidio Dance Theatre will shed their traditional folk costumes and ballet slippers n. 1. a heelless slipper specifically designed to be worn by ballet dancers while dancing. in favor of upon the side of; favorable to; for the advantage of. See also: favor hip hop hip-hop or hip hop n. 1. A popular urban youth culture, closely associated with rap music and with the style and fashions of African-American inner-city residents. 2. Rap music. adj. moves for Shake, Rattle, and Drop! The occasion is Smithsonian Teachers' Night, an open house sponsored by the Presidio Trust and themed this year to mark the centennial of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake. PDT's performance is an opportunity to attract Bay Area scholarship students for the Presidio Dance Theatre Academy, where they will study ballet, academic folk, and character dancing Character dancing is performing a dance of ethnic origin generally used in the context of ballet training. All classical ballets contain slow graceful difficult steps, but often there are interludes in the story where some peasants will enter to perform an exuberant dance. . Each spring, founder and artistic director Vassilii Mountian stages Dancing Across Cultures, depicting folkloric traditions of 30 nations, www.ppaf-sf.org |
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