But the judges, who are experts in the field of competitive dance, aren't the only deciding factor.
Jain Irrigation, an Indian maker of irrigation systems, uses dance and song to explain the benefits of drip irrigation to farmers who can't read.
Peggy was making a name for herself in the world of dance and light entertainment and it hadn't gone un-noticed.
The two have worked together for about 20 years, but Ms. Gerring doesn't create dance to a specific piece of music.
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Bega's "Mambo" may have been the dance-hall hit of 1999, but Bega didn't even flirt with the charts for the rest of the decade.
You meet someone you don't know on the side of the dance floor and dance - it's intimate, it's romantic, it's a bond like no other.
We would sit in their sun room and chat about everything from rations to folkloric dance, and I couldn't bear the thought of not being able to pay my bill.
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Equally upbeat is "Q of T, " which finds the band embracing indie dance pop with a heavy, jumpy bassline and jittery guitars in the song's energetic chorus.
While the song "Macarena" -- and its signature dance, THE Macarena -- didn't enjoy the luxury of YouTube, it did somehow manage to become an international sensation in the mid-'90s.
Eye contact happens often and when a toddler in a Ramones T-shirt pauses to perform a wobbly dance in front of a lone saxophonist crooning a melancholy rendition of La Vie en Rose above 20th Street, walkers stop, smile and soak it in.
It worked for her rendition of the song I Love New York, but I wasn't so sure about using it for Ray of Light, which is such a dance track it seemed odd to watch her strumming a guitar for it.
Yes it is, and that's what suffuses every one of their scenes together, whether they're comparing meds, turning a misbegotten meal at a diner into an encounter of urgent intimacy or lowering their defenses long enough to practice for a dance competition that isn't as crazy as it seems.
But their example most plainly shows that sociability isn't a one-step but a do-si-do: a continually reciprocal dance of body chemistry and interaction.
The Fighting Irish players, wearing championship hats and T-shirts, set up a dance line to celebrate and did an Irish jig in front of the school band.
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