The Chicken Dance begins: men dressed in colourful feathers, bent forward with elbows pulled back, shuffle and preen in imitation of the mating dance of the prairie chicken, to the obvious delight of the crowd.

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So the dance begins.

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Tuesday night at New York's Joyce Theater, the Martha Graham Dance Company begins its first official season in almost three years.

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Sitting a little too close to Clay, she exchanges a few pleasantries before the dance of death begins.

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The Harlem Shake is the latest internet dance craze, and typically begins with one dancer who is then quickly joined by others, often in costumes or with props.

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She pulls some purple wool from her homemade loom and begins to weave, an intricate dance of fingers and thumbs.

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The festival begins with Mr. Varone and the premiere of his dance "Mouth Above Water" (Feb. 22-24), a fractured take on a folk tale examining themes of love, murder and music.

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However, during that last quarter of the hour, the deejay begins to play either rap, rock or, you know, some sort of dance music, and the dance floor always gets packed during the rap portion of the hour.

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Theatre, dance and music from the Far East will be on show in the east of Scotland as the Edinburgh International Festival begins later.

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