Tonight, the crowd has witnessed a spectacle of wild energy, but not yet the dance that the Siksika First Nation is most famous for: the Chicken Dance.
Sir Tom Jones prompted what the first ever mass flamenco dance on the steps of the Queen Victoria Memorial as he launched into Delilah.
Harkness became home to the first faculty of modern dance in the United States, and its ranks over the years have attracted many pioneers in the field.
One of the most visually stunning moments comes in the first act, with the dance of the Shuixiu (water sleeve) princesses, where dancers move wearing long flowing silk sleeves that are designed to accentuate and articulate their emotions.
The 23-year-old DJ released "Harlem Shake" last May, but it wasn't until Feb. 2 that the first video emerged featuring a silly dance to the song. (A YouTube denizen known as Filthy Frank gets that credit.) A version by a crew of Australian skateboarders established the jump-cut blueprint, and an entry by employees of Maker Studios, a digital media company, inspired other office imitators.
"My parents, their first date was the confirmation dance, " he notes with a laugh.
It felt as though I were watching that classic dance for the first time in my life.
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Months of physical therapy likely lie ahead, though she's already picked out her first dance: the Viennese Waltz.
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The tea dance was the first of 140 events that will be hosted during the City of Culture year.
Instead of a first dance, the pair are reported to have sat together, holding hands and swaying to the song.
After catching a touchdown pass in the first half at the Meadowlands, he performed an interpretive dance in which he pretended to shoot himself in the left thigh.
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City council leader Gordon Matheson said Glasgow's confirmation as host city marked "the first step in positioning the city as the global home of street dance over the next three years".
Tuesday night at New York's Joyce Theater, the Martha Graham Dance Company begins its first official season in almost three years.
He followed that with a tweet referencing Billy "White Shoes" Johnson, one of the first professional football players known for perfecting the art of the end-zone dance.
Elvis was one of the 20th century's biggest cultural forces--the first white, mainstream rock star whose slick hair and shaking hips unleashed the pent-up dance fever and sexual energy of 1950s teenagers.
Two methods have developed -- the first of which is piezoelectricity, used by Club Surya, where crystals in blocks under the dance-floor rub together with the assistance of dancers on the floor.
Most said they were planning to dance through the night to greet the first dawn of the new millennium - just to confirm if really had arrived.
So in an elaborate dance, defense lawyers first provide the name and Social Security number of a client to the IRS, and are given a green or red light for the program.
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Although whisky producers claim to detect the first signs of a revival, selling Scotch as the liquor to drink while playing pool or cruising the dance floor poses a risk to the drink's long-term status as an international symbol of success.
Tennis star Martina Hingis became the first famous face to be voted off, beaten in a dance-off by Crimewatch presenter Rav Wilding.
When author and journalist Natasha Garnett first met artist Tracey Emin, they were on the dance floor of the Walpole Bay Hotel on Emin's 36th birthday.
She went from Orgeon juvenile detention at 13 years old to the stereotypical route to stardom for tough girls, first you pole dance, then you write some songs, then you sing them, then you become a rock star.
First there as "Riverdance, " then "Lord of the Dance" -- it soon seemed that hardly a day went by without seeing the panting and perspiring frame of Michael Flatley on the small screen.
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Publication of the Stanford economist's full work isn't due until early next year (when it will also feature a section on the delicate currency dance with Japan during George W. Bush's first term).
If there's a star to blame here (and, to be clear, I'm not sure there is I'd bet the amateur look and sound of the movie is what kept audiences away), it's lead actress Julianne Hough, whose first three music-and-dance features since leaving "Dancing with the Stars" have all been relative box office disappointments.
The first thing Ms. Rodrigues did was mention that she was looking for work to tango dance-class partners.
From that first transaction, when shells were the reserve currency, to about 1995AD, the marketplace dance was performed zillions of times with little variation.
Trisha Brown first made a name for herself in the 1960s when she appeared on the New York dance scene as a performer of quiet charisma and a dance maker of regularly sly rebelliousness.
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Korean American visual artist Nam June Paik will make his Scottish debut, 50 years after his first solo exhibition, and Scottish Ballet will return to the Festival Theatre with a four-day dance festival.
Mr. Villella addresses the subject cautiously, but he's open about the fact that from his first year in Miami, he knew it would be a challenge to convince the board that a dance company should be about the dancers.
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