MAY…the month for DANCING

Dance -v.i. 1.to move one's feet, or body, or both, rhythmically in a pattern of steps, esp. to the accompaniment of music. 2.to leap, skip. Etc., as from excitement or emotion. 3.to bob up and down 4.a successive group of rhythmical steps or bodily motions, or both, usually executed to music. 5.to jump, slide, reel, prance, hop and swing like a stark raving lunatic to the rhythmical thundering of music; depending on decorum.

Popular Music Party and Dance Guide:

PM The Ultimate Party Survival Kit : The Twist / The Chicken Dance / The Hokey Poky

Disc Jockey Series, vol. 1-6: For He's a Jolly Good Fellow / '96 Tears / Thanks for the Memories/Mexican Hat Dance / Never On Sunday (Line Dance) / The Bride Cuts the Cake / The Stripper

PM Disc Jockey Series: Boogie Woogie Dancin' Shoes

PM Betty White Series: Waltz / Tango / Rumba / Fox Trot

PM Massive Attack: Blue lines /trip hop /acid jazz

PM Swingtime: featuring B. Goodman & v/a

PM Les Brown: Sentimental Journey

PM Tommy Dorsey: One and only

PM Duke Ellington: Ellington at Newport

PM Enoch Light: Big band hits of the 30's & 40's

PM Glen Miller: in the digital mood

PM Benny Goodman: Let's Dance

PM King's of swing, vol. 1-4 various artists

PM Charles Mingus: Let my children hear music

PM Frank Sinatra: at the sands with Count Basie and orchestra

PM Lawrence Welk: 16 most requested songs

PM Frankie Yankovic: greatest hits

Classical and Ballet Music:

CL Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Petite musique de nuit

CL Michael Praetorius: Terpsichore

CL Maurice Ravel: Le tombeau de couperin

CL Caramelos Latinos: music of Latin American Masters

CL Broadside Band: John Playford's popular tunes of 17^th cent. England.

Folk and World dance music:

FM Lambada Brazil: various performers

FM John Renbourn: Maid in Bedlam

FM Lakatos Family: Hungary

MOVIES that feature Dancing: Laser Disk

Strictly Ballroom

Saturday Night Fever

the Last Waltz

Ziegfeld Follies

Caberet

Dirty Dancing

Beauty and the Beast

You'll never get Rich

You were never Lovelier

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Top Hat

That's Dancing

That's Entertainment

That's Entertainment II

Tap

Swing Time

SWING: The best of the Big bands 1&2

The story of Vernon and Irene Castle

Singing in the Rain

Scent of a Woman

Pennies from Heaven

the Nutcracker

Les Girls

Kiss Me Kate

Idiot's Delight

Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1935

the Gay Divorcee

French CanCan

42^nd Street

Footlight Parade

Follow the Fleet

Dancing Lady

Dames

Cover Girl

Cabin in the Sky

Cabaret

Broadway Melody of 1940

the Band Wagon

MOVIES that feature Dancing: VHS

Dance Theater of Harlem - History

Masters of Tap - Biography

Performnce Potpourri - dances of the world

Dancin Grannies - mature fitness

Country Dancing made Easy - the two step

Country Dancing made Easy - the Ten step

Country Dancing made Easy - the Waltz

Country Dancing made Easy - the West Coast Swing

Christy Lanes Hot New Line Dancing

Christy Lanes More Hot New Line Dancing

COOL DANCE LINKS:

BALLROOM

DISCO

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