Dance Dance Dance

Let’s start by watching this!

Evolution of dance

https://www.lauragao.com/the-evolution-of-dance-music

Traditional dance from Europe

Swing and rock and roll dancing is based on a six count

Forties swing music

Fifties Rock and Roll

And now some famous dance scenes from the movies.

Let’s Face the Music and Dance (from Follow the Fleet, 1936), Let’s face the music and dance, Irving Berlin

And here, another of my favorites, 1937, from the movie SHALL WE DANCE, written by George and Ira Gershwin. The song is called THEY ALL THOUGHT

Shall We Dance? The King and I – Rodgers and Hammerstein, Movie from 1956

Mambo from West Side Story

Same music, from the recent Spielberg movie

Fiddler on the Roof – Topol

I Could Have Danced All Night from My Fair Lady Audrey Hepburn (singing in her own voice)