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Pop It, Lock It, Polka Dot It
Boom clap, boom de clap de clap “Planet Funk” and “Urban Legend” Zanfagna, Christina. “The Multiringed Cosmos of Krumping: Hip-Hop Dance at the Intersections of Battle, Media, and Spirit.”
Abby Z and the Olympics
Schloss, Joe “Physical Graffiti” and “The Art of Battling” from Total Chaos. Banes, Sally. “Breaking.” That’s the Joint!:The Hip Hop Studies Reader, edited by Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal, Routledge, 2004, pg. 13-21.
Are swans gay?
“Dancing in the Margins: The Experience of African American Ballerinas” “Queer Swans: Those fabulous Avians in the Swan Lakes of Les Ballets Trockadero and Matthew Bourne”
Lover Scandal in Modern Ballet
"Early Modern Ballet: Firebird, The Rite of Spring, Les Noces” by Sally Banes “Ballet Astonishments” by Jack Anderson
Not Marius Petipa's Idea
In Pursuit of the Sylph by Deborah Jowitt The Travesty Dancer in Nineteenth-Century Ballet by Lynn Garafola
Are there carbs in a ballet shoe?
A History in Broad Brushstrokes by Carol Pardo Recorded after one strong marg ;)
Have you ever seen a horse do ballet?
Ballet and Modern Dance a Concise History the 3rd Edition by Jack Anderson
Do they serve tea and cake at this one?
Folk Dance: Father Music, Mother Dance by Rosa Guerrero Piercing the Mask of Japanese Dance Theater by Helen Myers
That's deep bro
Ferne Yangyeite Caulker “African Dance: Divine Motion” Chapter 3 Olatunji Ojo “Performing Trauma: The Ghosts of Slavery in Yoruba Music and Ritual Dance”