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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.


Blues

37c Let's Dance/Bailemos: Salsa single

The Marchbanks Calendar--September

33c Disco Music single

Untitled (Band and dancer in spotlight)

Jazz - the New Possession

Savoy Ballroom

Chuck Brown Band at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival: "Bustin' Loose"

John Travolta

Dancers

A group of women in a garden, entertaining themselves with music and dancing

33c Hip-hop Culture single

Concert

How to Breakdance

Early 1950's, Jitterbugs

Tap shoes used by Sammy Davis Jr.

Fiddler's Green

Polka

The Harry Von Tilzer Dance Folio

Water color; Two peasants dancing to the music of bagpipe and horn

Celestial dancer

James Brown, Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, TN

A Buddhist procession of three musicians and one dancer

Cab Calloway

Great Russian Ball at Academy of Music--Nov. 5, 1863

Cuban Rumba Dress

Cuba Libre, from the United Nations Series

Water color; Tarantella dancers

Photograph of B-Girl Laneski

Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5

Dancing the Bon Odori

Festive Scene

Dancer and musicians in a garden

Josephine Baker

Eleanor Powell


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