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Flagging Dance
Flagging dance is a performing art form often called "Flag Dancing", "Spin Flagging", "Flow Flagging", "Color Guard" and "Rag Spinning", but more commonly referred to as "Flagging". Specifically, flagging dance is the undulation, spinning and waving of flags in a rhythmic fashion with music. Practitioners of this form of performance art and dance are usually referred to as "Flaggers" and "Flag Dancers." Although spinning Flags resembles the spinning of Poi, it is not a form of Poi. Poi originated with the Māori people of New Zealand while Flagging derived from Gay culture. Both developed independently from each other. The exact origins of Flagging are unclear, but it is thought to have started in gay clubs in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Flagging was borne from the use of Oriental Hand Fans and the handkerchiefs from the Hanky Code. These two props were used as antagonist to aromatize, using the handkerchiefs. Then dearomatized, using the Oriental Hand Fans on the dance fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XMen Flags
The X-Men are a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, first appearing in Uncanny X-Men, ''The X-Men'' #1 by artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby and writer/editor Stan Lee in 1963. Although initially cancelled in 1970 due to low sales, following its Giant-Size X-Men, 1975 revival and subsequent direction under writer Chris Claremont, it became one of the most recognizable and successful franchises of Marvel Comics. They have appeared in numerous books, X-Men in television, television shows, the 20th Century Fox X-Men (film series), ''X-Men'' films, and List of video games featuring the X-Men, video games. The ''X-Men'' title may refer to the superhero team itself, X-Men (comic book), the eponymous comic series, or the broader franchise including List of X-Men comics, various solo titles and team books such as the New Mutants, Excalibur (comics), Excalibur, and X-Force. In the Marvel Universe, Mutant (Marvel Comics), mutants are humans who are born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
