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THE HULA • ‘Hula’ is a Hawaiian word meaning simply, ‘dance.’ Originally, only men were allowed to dance the hula. It originated as a method of passing history down, with every single movement carrying a meaning that helped tell the story. The movements were accompanied by drumming and chanting. (Modern hula is more commonly accompanied by ukeleles and guitars.) Hula dances also honored and appeased the gods in religious ceremonies (particularly the volcano gods) and paid homage to leaders. The hula was once outlawed by missionaries who considered it sinful. But David Kalakaua, King of Hawaii from 1874 through 1891, reinstated the tradition of hula dancing, thereby earning his nickname, the ‘Merrie Monarch.’ Each year, the Merrie Monarch Festival is held in his honor. The peak of the festival is the hula competition, with both men and women dancing. An authentic hula skirt requires the leaves of about 60 ti plants, takes about four hours to weave, and wears out in 3 to 5 days of use.

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• In 1942, the impresarios for Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus decided they wanted to teach their circus elephants to dance. They contacted choreographer George Balanchine and told him to find a composer to help him.

He chose Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, and the telephone conversation went like this: “I need you to compose a piece of music for me.” “What kind of music?” “A polka.” “For whom?” “Elephants.” “How old?” “Young!”

“OK, if they are very young, I’ll do it!” The result was “Circus Polka” and it was performed 425 times.

• Aristotle told the story of the city of Sybaris, where the horses were taught to dance to the music of a pipe. When the Sybarites went to war against the Crotonians, the Crotonians brought along a lot of pipes. On the battlefield, the pipers began to play, the Sybarian horses began to dance, and the riders were easily slaughtered.

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DANCE WORD ORIGINS • The old English word ‘jouk’ means to dance, and from that we get our juke box.

• In 1865, somcone sprinkled cayenne pepper on the dance floor in Virginia City, Montana during a dance, causing a sneezing uproar.

• Thespis was a poet, dancer, and theatrical manager around 500 BC. He did so much to promote theater that he is still honored today in the word ‘thespian.’

• Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky was able to cross and uncross his legs ten times in a single leap.

• The word ‘carol’ comes from the Middle English word ‘carolen’ meaning to sing joyously. That word originates with the Greek word ‘choraulein,’ which was a ring dance accompanied by flutes.

• ‘Polak’ means Polish man, and ‘polka’ means Polish woman. In addition, the Czeck word ‘pulka’ means ‘half-step.’ When a new dance originating in Bohemia took the world by storm, it was called the Polka. The polka was very popular and many different items were named after the dance. When a new fabric was invented, the manufacturer decided to name the new design ‘polka dots.’

FAST FACTS ABOUT DANCE • It is illegal to dance to the Star Spangled Banner in several states.

• President James Polk banned dancing and drinking in the White House. At his inaugural ball, these illicit activities stopped— until the president and his wife left the ball.

• Barnum and Bailey Circus once had a troupe of dancing cows.

• Choreographer Paul Taylor once performed a solo dance on stage in which he simply stood motionless for four minutes. The critic for “Dance Observer” magazine reviewed his work by giving him four inches of blank white space.

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DANCE ANTICS & ANECDOTES • In France in 1960 a new disco opened up called Chez Régine. For weeks everyone who showed up at the door was turned away. A sign out front perpetually announced that the disco was full. Finally the sign was removed, and customers flooded in. It was an instant success. The ‘Disco Full’ sign was a gimmick designed to get people’s curiosity up.

• In 1971 jazz composer Roger Kellaway wrote a modern ballet entitled mysteriously “PAMTGG.” Audiences soon realized the acronym stood for the TV commercial jingle, “Pan Am Makes the Going Great.” The entire ballet was based on airport life, including takeoff, landing, and baggage scramble.

• Dancer Marie Guimard was famous for her style of dancing which mostly involved graceful movements of the arms as she struck poses. When a piece of falling scenery broke her arm, French opera singer Sohie Arnould remarked, “What a pity it wasn’t her leg; then it wouldn’t have interfered with her dancing!”

• British ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn went to see a troupe of black ballet dancers. One of the male performers invited her to join him on stage and she gamely tried to keep up with the rhythm and movement of the vigorous dance as he guided her through the steps. He took her back to her seat saying, “You’re an attractive girl; it’s too bad you can’t dance!”

CANADIAN DANCE FACTS • In Canada, the number of people who report earning a living from dance grew from less than 400 in 1971 to over 6,000 in 2001.

• Over a million Canadians adults take dance classes or perform in their community.

• Over one-quarter of a million Canadian citizens take ballet lessons.

• Throughout Canada, dancers earn lower incomes than all other culture workers, and rank among the bottom 5% of all occupations.

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• When Virginia Katherine McMath was born in Missouri in 191, her young cousin had trouble pronouncing the name ‘Virginia,’ saying ‘Ginga’ instead, so Virginia became Ginger. Her mother divorced her father, and later married John Rogers, turning Virginia McMath into Ginger Rogers. Ginger’s mother was very actively involved in theater, writing Hollywood scripts for a living and touring with theatrical troupes, so Ginger grew up backstage. She got her first taste of the limelight when she won a Charleston dance contest, which allowed her to tour the Vaudeville circuit extensively.

Her mother went along on the tour, acting as her manager.

• Upon arriving in New York City, she landed a role in a Broadway play called “Top Speed,” and then immediately landed the leading role in the Gershwin play “Girl Crazy,” which made a star out of both herself and Ethyl Merman. One of the crew members hired to help with choreography was a young dancer named Fred Astaire.

In 1930, Ginger signed a 7-year contract with Paramount Pictures. She was 19 years old. In the decades to come, she would make over 70 films.

• In 1933, she teamed up with Fred Astaire for the first time, making a film called “Flying Down to Rio” which turned out to be the first of ten films they made together. Although they played supporting characters in the film, their dance chemistry was so remarkable that audiences clamored for more. A string of feature films followed, including such hits as “Top Hat” and “The Gay Divorcee.” Although the two worked well together, they were never close off-stage.

However, as Astaire later reflected, “All the girls I ever danced with thought they couldn’t do it, but of course they could. So they always cried. All except Ginger. No no, Ginger never cried.”

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• By the 1950s as her film popularity began to fade, she returned to the stage for long successful runs in plays such as “Hello, Dolly!” and “Mame.” Her final film was the 1965 biopic “Harlow” in which she played the mother of actress Jean Harlow. In 1985, she fulfilled a lifelong dream when she directed the off-Broadway musical “Babes in Arms.” She was 74 years old at the time. Along the way, she married and divorced five times but never had any children.

Her autobiography, “Ginger: My Story” was published in 1991.

• Her final appearance in a TV role was in 1987 when she appeared in the series “Hotel.”

• She continued making public appearances until a stroke left her partially paralyzed and dependent upon a wheelchair. In spite of the stroke, she never saw a doctor.

• Ginger Rogers died of a heart attack in 1995 at the age of 83. Her ashes, interred next to her mother’s, are in the same cemetery where Fred Astaire is buried.

• Garson Kanin wrote of them, “The magic of Astaire and Rogers cannot be explained; it can only be felt. They created a style, a mood, a happening. They flirted, chased, courted, slid, caressed, hopped, skipped, jumped, bent, swayed, clasped, wafted, undulated, nestled, leapt, quivered, glided, spun - in sum, made love before our eyes. We have not seen their like since.”

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JUDY • Judy was born in 1937 in Shanghai, in a dog kennel. A purebred pointer, she was a brown and white dog of exceptional intelligence and devotion. She was still very young when she was presented to the Royal Navy of Britain in order to serve as a mascot.

• Her first assignment was to the ship called the Gnat, where she narrowly avoided death when she fell overboard into the Yangtze River. She and her crew patrolled Chinese waters in spite of Japanese bombardment. The citizens of Hankow were so thankful that they awarded her a silver medal.

• When the Gnat was captured by the Japanese in 1939, Judy and her crew were transferred to another gunship called HMS Grasshopper. By now Judy had been trained to point whenever she sensed the approach of a Japanese aircraft. Because of her acute hearing, she often knew of their approach long before humans could hear the engines.

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• In 1942 the ship was attacked by bombers and forced to beach on a barren island. Two days later, Judy showed up, completely covered in oil. There was no water on the island – until Judy began digging in a very determined manner in one particular spot, unearthing an underground spring. The crew was saved.

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• The crew of the Grasshopper was eventually captured by the Japanese and sent to a POW camp, with Judy smuggled in under bags of rice. She eventually became the only animal ever officially listed as a POW. During her three-year interment, Judy met Frank Williams, a POW from the British air force.

Frank and Judy fell in love, and Frank faithfully shared his meager ration of rice with Judy on a daily basis. Not only did Judy alert prisoners to the approach of Japanese guards, but she also pointed out dangers such as snakes and scorpions.

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campaigning for a second term, insisted on delivering his speech. When he pulled from a coat pocket the 100 pages on which his speech was written, he saw a bullet hole through the sheets of paper. Still determined to carry on, he gave the speech before going to the hospital, where it was discovered that the bullet had penetrated 4 inches into his body. After the perpetrator was arrested, it became evident that Shcrank was insane; he claimed that President William McKinley had revealed to him in a dream that Roosevelt was responsible for McKinley’s assassination. Shrank spent the next 32 years in an insane asylum.

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• It was Mark Twain who made the following sage observation: “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

• It’s interesting that an herbal cold remedy and a type of sea urchin share the same name: Echinacea.

Both words are derived from the Greek word “echino,” which means “hedgehog.”

• In a recent survey, more than one-third of respondents admitted that they had dinged the car, then lied to their spouse, saying someone else was responsible for the damage.

• Presidential security was not as always as formidable as it is today. In 1913, former President Theodore Roosevelt was walking down a Milwaukee street, heading to a speech he was scheduled to give. A man named John Schrank pulled out a gun and shot toward Roosevelt, who staggered but did not fall. There was no blood evident, and Roosevelt, who was

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John nothat farmers faced when • Inticed 1944,the theproblems men were transferred to Singapore attempting to till soil.

Because the area aboard a ship. Dogs were not allowed, buthad Wilformerly been woodland, the soil was rich liams taught Judy to lie still inside a rice sack. with he hummus, which clumped clung into to When boarded the ship, Judyand climbed the blades of the plows farmers were accusa sack and Williams slung it over his shoulder. tomed to using. While repairing a broken cirFor three hours the men were forced to stand cular saw, Deere stumbled upon an idea. He on deck in searing heat as they were inspected, employed his smith skills to fashion the steel and for the entire time Judy remained silent in blade into the shape of a plow. He affixed the bagwooden on his spokes, back. then hitched the device two

• The wasIt torpedoed few days later. to aship horse. plowed theaheavy Illinois soilIn desperation, Judyhappened out of a like a charm.Williams In fact, a pushed farmer who porthole, even though there a 15 feetput (4.6 to be observing the test run was immediately an order for his ownHe John Deere plow. m)in drop to the water. escaped, not knowJudyorder, had Deere survived. was •ing In ifshort gaveWhen up hisWilliams blacksmith sent to a new POW camp in Sumatra, he began shop and focused on making plows. The tocompany hear stories a dog and whoadded helped saveemmen grewofsteadily many from drowning themrelocated to hold the onto ployees.

In the by lateallowing 1840s, John her collar while she swam towards floating deentire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed bris.

Then one day, Williams was knocked flat of his own lack of education, John sent his when Judytoarrived at thefinest campschools. and bowled him children the state’s One of over her excitement to seewhen him son again. his in proudest days occurred Charles earned equivalent of an MBA Bell’s • When thetheguards sentenced her tofrom death, WilCommercial College in Chicago. liams sent her into the jungle to survive on her and snakes, and run-in with •own.

WithShe his ate sonrats Charles managing thea company, anJohn alligator hertopermanently scarred. infoundleft time pursue philanthropic terests.

He co-founded both the First Nation• When the war ended, Judy was smuggled aboard al Bank and the First Congregational Church. a troop ship headed for Liverpool, where the He was thefed. mayor of Moline in 1873, cook keptelected her well Following a six month where one she of his first actions –with the replacequarantine, was presented a Dickin ment of the city’s open drains with a sewer Award, which honors animals in war. Simultapipe system – saved countless lives by reducneously, Frank Williams was awarded the White ing the spread of disease.

Cross for his devotion to Judy. Interviewed by •the The original John Deere logo, registered in to BBC in 1946, Judy’s barks were broadcast 1876, depicted a deer that was native to Afrithe entire nation. Frank Williams and Judy then ca. Thirty-six years later, in 1912,and it was respent the next year visiting friends relatives of a North American ofplaced POWswith whothe hadimage not survived the war. white-tailed deer. In the decades that fol• Frank Williams cared for “outline” Judy untillogo hertook death lowed, the now-familiar due to a tumor in 1950 at the age of 13. over as the symbol of the John Deere brand.

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