The Hot Shots is a collective name for two closely related Swedish dance companies who perform a dance developed from the "prize walks" held in the latter part of what century?
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Hot Shots (dance companies) The Hot Shots is a collective name for two closely related Swedish dance companies based in Stockholm, Sweden: The Rhythm Hot Shots and the Harlem Hot Shots. The Hot Shots specialize in faithful reproductions of African-American dance scenes in American films from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. Dances that they perform include Lindy Hop, Tap dance, Cakewalk, Charleston, and Black Bottom. The members of the Hot Shots are also respected dance instructors and accomplished social dancers. The goals of The Rhythm Hot Shots and the Harlem Hot Shots are the same.
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Cakewalk The cakewalk or cake walk was a dance developed from the "prize walks" held in the late 19th century, generally at get-togethers on black slave plantations in the Southern United States. Alternative names for the original form of the dance were "chalkline-walk", and the "walk-around". At the conclusion of a performance of the original form of the dance in an exhibit at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, an enormous cake was awarded to the winning couple. Thereafter it was performed in minstrel shows, exclusively by men until the 1890s. The inclusion of women in the cast "made possible all sorts of improvisations in the Walk, and the original was soon changed into a grotesque dance" which became very popular across the country.
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The Stroll The Stroll was both a slow rock 'n' roll dance and a song that was popular in the late 1950s.
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Kymppitonni Kymppitonni (colloquialism for "kymmenentuhatta" = "ten-thousand") is a Finnish television and radio game show format, created by Spede Pasanen which has been featured on Finnish networks between 1985 and 2016. The show has been hosted in all of its respective formats by beauty queen Riitta Väisänen. Pasanen developed the programme specifically to promote Väisänen. Väisänen achieved five consequetive Telvis Awards, for Best Female Performer, for her appearances on the show between 1986 and 1990.
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Tourdion The tourdion (or tordion) (from the French verb "tordre" / to twist) is a lively dance, similar in nature to the galliard, and popular from the mid-15th to the late-16th centuries, first in the Burgundian court and then all over the French Kingdom. The dance was accompanied frequently by the basse danse, due to their contrasting tempi, and were danced alongside the pavane and galliard, and the allemande and courante, also in pairs.
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Mr Gay Sweden Mr Gay Sweden is a beauty pageant for gay Swedes. The contest is held at Berns in Berzelii Park, in Stockholm, Sweden. It was created by the Swedish gay magazine and Internet community "Qruiser" in 1999. Since 2005, the winner represents the country at the Mr Gay Europe pageant. The winner is traditionally announced by SMS-voting after hot picks by a panel of celebrity judges.
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BingoLotto (UK) BingoLotto was a hybrid lottery-bingo style gameshow based on the Swedish show of the same name, Bingolotto. Each week, viewers with a valid gamecard had a 1 in 9.5 chance of winning. However, unlike the National Lottery, prizes would be life-enhancing, rather than life-changing. In other words, prizes were "small," varying from more game-cards to the maximum cash prize of £100,000. The game cards were printed in Sweden by "Idrottens Digital Print".
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Hornpipe The hornpipe is any of several dance forms played and danced in Britain and Ireland and elsewhere from the 16th century until the present day. The earliest references to hornpipes are from England with Hugh Aston's Hornepype of 1522 and the others refer to Lancashire hornpipes in 1609 and 1613.
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Chicken Dance The "Chicken Dance", also known as the Birdie Song or the Chicken Song, is an oom-pah song and its associated fad dance is now a contemporary dance throughout the Western world. The song was composed by accordion (Handharmonika) player Werner Thomas from Davos, Switzerland, in the 1950s.
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Stockholm International Film Festival The Stockholm International Film Festival (Swedish: Stockholms filmfestival ) is an annual film festival held in Stockholm, Sweden. It was launched in 1990 and has been held every year in the second half of November. The film voted by a jury as the best in the competition section receives the Bronze Horse (Bronshästen). Since its start the festival has focused on bringing forth and supporting new talents through competitions and scholarships. A third of the films selected for the festival are made by a debuting director and only directors who have made less than 3 films are selected for the competition. In 2011 "The Stockholm Film Festival Feature Film Award" was inaugurated which funds a feature film for an unestablished female director. The aim for Stockholm International Film Festival is to broaden the selection of films in Sweden with creative new films of high quality and offer the visitor an orientation within modern film. With seminars, opportunities to meet actors and filmmakers during the festival, all means are given to make the film experience come full circle. An impressive list of filmmakers and actors have attended the festival, including Dennis Hopper, Lauren Bacall, Gena Rowlands, Charlotte Rampling, Susan Sarandon, Ang Lee, David Cronenberg, Roman Polanski, Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, Elia Kazan, Wong Kar-Wai and Uma Thurman.
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Oud Limburgs Schuttersfeest The Oud Limburgs Schuttersfeest (abbreviated as OLS, literally translated "Old Limburgian Shooters' Festival") is an annual shooting tournament during which shooting associations (Dutch: "schutterijen"; Limburgian: "sjötterie") from across the region of Limburg, nowadays split in a Dutch and Belgian part, compete against each other. The winner organizes the event the following year and takes home "De Um", the highest prize for a shooter ("schutter").
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Ballo The ballo was an Italian dance form during the fifteenth century, most noted for its frequent changes of tempo and meter. The name "ballo" has its origin in Latin "ballō", "ballāre", meaning "to dance", which in turn comes from the Greek "βαλλίζω" ("ballizō"), "to dance, to jump about". In Greece there is the Greek dance named Ballos.
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Stave dancing Stave dancing is a style of folk dance from the south-west of England, especially Somerset, Dorset, and Wiltshire. Teams of dancers carry long decorated poles, known as staves, over their shoulders whilst performing. Having effectively died-out in the 1920s, interest in the style revived in the 1980s, and today a number of Morris and country dancing teams perpetuate the tradition. Some claim the tradition's origins lie in the annual ‘club-walks’ of the friendly societies.
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Bessie Awards The New York Dance and Performance Awards, informally known as the Bessie Awards in honor of Bessie Schonberg, are awarded annually for innovative achievement in dance and related performances, particularly so-called "downtown" performances.
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Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal The Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal (Swedish: "Svenska Dagbladets guldmedalj" , but usually simply called Bragdguldet, "The Feat Gold") is an annual award "for the most significant Swedish sports achievement of the year". It has been awarded by a jury led by the Swedish morning paper "Svenska Dagbladet" since 1925. According to its statutes the Medal may be awarded in November or December to either an individual sportsperson or a team. An individual can be awarded the Medal no more than twice, and to receive a second medal, that athlete must be "regarded a class of his own".
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Bounce Streetdance Company Bounce Streetdance Company is a dance company from Sweden that started 1997. Members include Alvaro Aguilera, Joe Jobe, Ambra Succi, Fredrik Rydman aka Benke, Filmon Michael, David Dalmo and Jennie Widegren. Many of the members has choreographed for "So You Think You Can Dance (Scandinavia)", and Fredrik "Benke" Rydman was permanent judge. The company recently staged a street dance tribute to Michael Jackson's "Beat It", which subsequently became a runaway YouTube success.
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Svensk Hyllningsfest Svensk Hyllningsfest (] , "Swedish Honoring Festival") is a biennial celebration held in Lindsborg, Kansas, in October of odd-numbered years since 1941 to celebrate the town's Swedish heritage. The festival includes Swedish dancing, foods including "lutfisk", cooking demonstrations, arts and crafts, entertainment by local artists and musicians, a parade, and a smörgåsbord.
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Basse danse The basse danse, or "low dance", was a popular court dance in the 15th and early 16th centuries, especially at the Burgundian court. The word "basse" describes the nature of the dance, in which partners move quietly and gracefully in a slow gliding or walking motion without leaving the floor, while in livelier dances both feet left the floor in jumps or leaps. The basse danse was a precursor of the pavane as a dignified processional dance . The term may apply to the dance or the music alone.
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Litefeet Litefeet also referred to as "getting lite" is a type of breakdance / street dance / vernacular dance that emerged from Harlem and the Bronx, New York in the early 2000s. Litefeet is the heir to breakdancing / b-boying emerging in the 1980s.
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Shirabyōshi Shirabyōshi (白拍子 ) were female dancers, prominent in the Japanese Imperial Court, who performed traditional Japanese dances (the dances themselves were also called "shirabyōshi" ). They danced dressed as men. The profession of "shirabyōshi" developed in the 12th century. They would perform for the nobility, and at celebrations.
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Marie Lindqvist Marie Lindqvist (born 20 November 1970) is a Swedish ballet dancer. She has danced with the Royal Swedish Ballet since 1988, becoming a principal dancer in 1993 and a court danser ("hovdansare") in 2004. She retired as an active dancer in February 2014.
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Let's Dance 2016 Let's Dance 2016 is the eleventh season of the Swedish celebrity dancing show "Let's Dance". Hosts are as previous David Hellenius and Jessica Almenäs. The show is broadcast on TV4.