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Moonwalk (dance)
The moonwalk, or backslide, is a popping dance move in which the performer glides backwards but their body actions suggest forward motion. It became popular around the world when American singer Michael Jackson performed the move during the performance of "Billie Jean" on '' Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever'', which was broadcast in 1983; he later incorporated it in tours and live performances. Jackson has been credited as renaming the "backslide" to the moonwalk and it became his signature move.'' Thriller 25: The Book'', ML Publishing Group Ltd, 2008. . History Early use Holman (2004) identified early evidence for the moonwalk in a statement made by Arthur Marshall, who was an African American composer of ragtime music. Marshall stated, "If a guy could really do it, he sometimes looked as if he was being towed around on ice skates. The performer moves forward without appearing to move his feet at all by manipulating his toes and heels rapidly." Holman also states: "A da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moonwalk Paso
Moonwalk, Moonwalker or Moonwalking may refer to: * A moonwalk, extravehicular activity on the Moon ** Lists of spacewalks and moonwalks Arts and entertainment Music * ''Moonwalk'' (album), by JPM, 2011 * "Moonwalk", a song by Earth, Wind & Fire from the 1983 album ''Electric Universe'' * "Moonwalk", a song by WayV from the 2019 album ''Take Over The Moon'' * "Moonwalk", a 2021 song by Cupcakke * "Moonwalkin", a song by Roddy Ricch from ''Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial'' Film * ''Moonwalk'' (film), a 2025 Indian Malayalam film * ''Moonwalker'', a 1988 film starring Michael Jackson * ''Moonwalkers'' (film) is a 2015 British crime comedy film Other uses in arts and entertainment * ''Moonwalk'' (book), a 1988 autobiography by Michael Jackson * Moonwalk (dance), a dance move popularized by Michael Jackson * Moonwalk Records, a record label in Estonia * ''Michael Jackson's Moonwalker'', several video games Places * Moonwalk, Parañaque, Philippines * Moon Walk (New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dancing On The Moon
''Dancing on the Moon'' is a 1935 animated film directed by Dave Fleischer and part of the Color Classics series of animated short films produced by Fleischer Studios. According to animation historian Jerry Beck, this film probably contains the first example of the dance move " moonwalk". Plot summary "Honeymoon Express to the Moon" offers a ride for one dollar per couple. Passengers embark on the spaceship: cattle, penguins, elephants, bears and giraffes. A cat couple arriving late is split up at the takeoff and the female is left behind. On the ship, the cat plays solitaire with cards. While on the Moon, the eight couples find private places to smooch. While at the base of the female giraffe's neck, the male comments "This is a great place for necking" to which the female (in a Mae West impression) retorts "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" The cat plays cat's cradle. When the other couples dance, the cat dances a moonwalk. When arriving back on Earth E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceau (; born Marcel Mangel; 22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a French mime artist and actor most famous for his stage persona, "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence", performing professionally worldwide for more than 60 years. As a Jewish youth, he lived in hiding and worked with the French Resistance during most of World War II, giving his first major performance to 3,000 troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Following the war, he studied dramatic art and mime in Paris. Early life and education Marcel Marceau was born on 22 March 1923 in Strasbourg, France, to a Jewish family. His father, Charles Mangel, was a kosher butcher originally from Będzin, Poland. His mother, Anne Werzberg, came from Yabluniv, present-day Ukraine. Through his mother's family, he was a cousin of Israeli singer Yardena Arazi. When Marcel was four years old, the family moved to Lille, but they later returned to Strasbourg. After France's i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mime
A mime artist, or simply mime (from Greek language, Greek , , "imitator, actor"), is a person who uses ''mime'' (also called ''pantomime'' outside of Britain), the acting out of a story through body motions without the use of speech, as a theatrical medium or as a performance art. In earlier times, in English, such a performer would typically be referred to as a mummer. Miming is distinguished from silent comedy, in which the artist is a character in a film or skit without sound. Jacques Copeau, strongly influenced by Commedia dell'arte and Japanese Noh theatre, used masks in the training of his actors. His pupil Étienne Decroux was highly influenced by this, started exploring and developing the possibilities of mime, and developed corporeal mime into a highly sculptural form, taking it outside the realms of naturalism. Jacques Lecoq contributed significantly to the development of mime and physical theatre with his training methods. As a result of this, the practice of mime h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tap Dancer
Tap dance (or tap) is a form of dance that uses the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion; it is often accompanied by music. Tap dancing can also be performed with no musical accompaniment; the sound of the taps is its own music. It is an American artform that evolved alongside the advent of jazz music. Tap is a type of step dance that began with the combination of Southern American and Irish dance traditions, such as Irish soft-shoe and hard-shoe step dances, and a variety of both slave and freeman step dances. The fusion of African rhythms and performance styles with European techniques of footwork led to the creation of tap dance. This fusion began in the mid-17th century but did not become popular until the mid-19th century. There are two major versions of tap dance: rhythm (jazz) tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses on dance; it is widely performed in musical theater. Rhythm tap focuses on musicality, and practitioners consider themselves t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sketch Comedy
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches" or, "skits", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. While the form developed and became popular in music hall in Britain and vaudeville in North America, today it is used widely in variety shows, as well as in late night talk shows and even some sitcoms. While sketch comedy is now associated mostly with adult entertainment, certain children's television series such have used it, too. The sketches may be improvised live by the performers, developed through improvisation before public performance, or scripted and rehearsed in advance like a play. History Sketch comedy has its origins in music hall and vaudeville, where many brief humorous acts were strung together to form a larger programme. In the 1890s, music hall impresario Fred Karno developed a form of sketch comedy without dialogue, and in 1904 he produced a sketch called ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camel Walk
The camel walk is an American ragtime dance that was popular in the 1960s. James Brown often used this dance in his routine when he performed on stage. Origin The camel walk originated as a ragtime dance in the early 20th century. It was referred to as an "animal ragtime dance", due to the nature of the dance. The dance The original camel walk started out in vaudeville shows during the early part of the 20th century. It became popular with college students, most notably "flappers", as a social dance during the 1910s and 1920s. The dance received disapproval from the general public, as the female dancers would often rest their heads upon the lead dancer's shoulder as they danced. This was seen as vulgar at the time. Despite the negative reputation, the camel walk remained popular through much of the 20th century. 1950s/1960s variant The camel walk entered the 1950s and 1960s as a retro dance. However, unlike the group dance that it was in the 1920s, this version of the camel walk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Van Dyke
Richard Wayne Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, entertainer and comedian. Dick Van Dyke on screen and stage, His work spans screen and stage, and List of awards and nominations received by Dick Van Dyke, his awards include six Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award and a Tony Award. He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1993, and has been honored with the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2013, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2020, and was recognized as a Disney Legend in 1998. Van Dyke began his career as an entertainer on radio, television and in nightclubs. He made his Broadway theatre, Broadway debut in the musical revue ''The Girls Against the Boys'' (1959). The following year he starred as Albert F. Peterson in the original production of ''Bye Bye Birdie'' (1960), a role which earned him the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He returned to Broadway playing Harold Hill in a revival of ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meet Me In St
Meet may refer to: People with the name * Janek Meet (born 1974), Estonian footballer * Meet Mukhi (born 2005), Indian child actor Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Meet'' (TV series), an Australian television series * '' Meet: Badlegi Duniya Ki Reet'', an Indian television series * Meet Bros, music director duo from Gwalior * "Meet", an episode of '' Heartstopper'' Convention or meeting * Track meet, a competitive event in track and field athletics ** All-comers track meet, usually small local track and field competitions * Swap meet (or flea market), a type of bazaar that rents or provides space to people who want to sell or barter merchandise * Train meet, a railroad term referring to the event of the meeting of two trains * Google Meet, a video communication service developed by Google Other uses * Meet (mathematics) In mathematics, specifically order theory, the join of a subset S of a partially ordered set P is the supremum (least upper bound) of S, denoted \ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under The Bamboo Tree
"Under the Bamboo Tree" is an American song composed by Robert Cole, J. Rosamond Johnson, and James Weldon Johnson. J. W. Stern & Co. published it in 1902. A ragtime hit, it sold over 400,000 copies. History The song was composed by Robert Cole and J. Rosamond Johnson while they were still performing as the vaudeville act Cole and Johnson. They had intended it for a "comic opera" they called ''Toloso''; the opera was never produced. After a performance, they were discussing the couplet "If you like me, like I like you, No knife can cut our life in two," and Cole suggested they use the idea for a new song. Cole stated he took inspiration from a soldier's story he heard, of a romance he had under a bamboo tree with a Red Cross nurse. At Johnson's insistence, Cole used the melody of the spiritual "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" as the basis for the song.Burton, Jack. "Music: The Honor Roll of Popular Songwriters". ''The Billboard''. May 21, 1949; 61, 21. p. 38. After writi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret O'Brien
Angela Maxine O'Brien (born January 15, 1937), known professionally as Margaret O'Brien, is an American actress. Beginning a career in feature films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at age four, O'Brien became a child star and received a Juvenile Academy Award as the outstanding child actress of 1944 for her role in '' Meet Me in St. Louis''. In her later career, she appeared on television, stage, and in supporting film roles. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame one for film and the other for television. Early life and career O'Brien's mother, Gladys Flores (1895–1958), was a flamenco dancer who often performed with her sister Marissa, who was also a dancer. O'Brien is of half-Irish and half-Spanish ancestry. She was raised Catholic. Film O'Brien made her first film appearance in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's '' Babes on Broadway'' (1941) at the age of four, but it was the following year that her first major role brought her widespread attention. As a five-year-old in '' Jour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Garland
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. Possessing a strong contralto voice, she was celebrated for her emotional depth and versatility across film, stage, and concert performance. Garland achieved international recognition for her portrayal of Dorothy Gale in ''The Wizard of Oz'' (1939). Her recording of "Over the Rainbow" became an enduring song in American popular music. Over a career spanning more than forty-five years, she recorded Judy Garland discography#Studio albums, eleven studio albums, and several of her recordings were later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. At the age of two, Garland began her career by performing with her two sisters as a vaudeville act, The Gumm Sisters. In 1935, she signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at thirteen and appeared in supporting roles in ensemble musicals such as Broadway Melody of 1938, ''Broadway Melody of 1938'' (1937) and Thoroughbreds Don't Cry, ''Thorough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
