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Dance to the Music

Smithsonian Music

Dance and music, music and dance. One inevitably happens in the presence of the other. Even in dances with no music, the absence of music is felt, and the dancers nonetheless keep a beat or tune in their head or feet. We describe particularly enjoyable music as being "foot-tappingly good," calling out our desire to move to the music.


The balloon polka = L'aëronaute A. Wallerstein

Disco Fever Lunch Box

The Bloomer Waltz

Photograph of B-Girl Laneski

37c Let's Dance/Bailemos: Cha-Cha single

"Dancing Around"

The Two-Step

Do You Wanna Dance?; Please Let Me Wonder

33c Cinco de Mayo single

Tap Shoes, worn by Jeni LeGon

Quintango Danzarin (Musical and Dance Performance)

Fanny Elssler

Disco Thermos

37c Let's Dance/Bailemos: Merengue single

Tap shoes worn by Ann Miller

Kaypi Perú 1: Traditional Music and Dance

Soldiers Dancing

Trophy, Silver Award Swing, Arthur Murray World Dance-O-Rama, 1973, C. Draper

37c Let's Dance/Bailemos: Mambo single

Design for a Spot for The New Yorker

Josephine Baker

Un Americano a Parigi

Let's Dance; Let's Dance

Dancing, Fred's Lounge

The Dance

Fiddler playing a farm dance

Song and Picture Barn Dance Magazine, No. 6


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