Tango Dance | 20240113

Tango dance demonstration by Eddy Kuijpers & Cary Wennink in the Amsterdam Royal Concert Hall ‘Koninklijk Concertgebouw’ at the national dance competition ‘Nederlandse Danskampioenschappen’ in 1948.
Film edited from dutch Polygoon Hollands Nieuws cinema news reel week 6 , 1948 | Sound & Vision (Open Images).
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Shimmy Shimmy Wild Dance | 20231222

Some Shimmiers – Wild shimmy jazz and tango dancing with black musicians in an apaches cellar, images from a silent 1919 movie on a slumming party : well-off whites exploring communities of ‘the other’, such as poor working-class neighborhoods (1).

Film edited with selected clips from the comic one-act play ‘Some Shimmiers’ by Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran with Mildred Moore and John George, published 31 March 1919 in the dutch edition ‘Boevenliefde’ by H.A.P Film | Universal | source: EYE Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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Notes

1. When ‘Slumming’ Was the Thing to Do. New York Times. Jennifer Lee . URL https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/when-slumming-was-the-thing-to-do/

Tango Dance | 20231220

Rembrandt Theatre, Haarlem, Holland, January 1930 (silent film). Demonstration of the different tango styles by dance teachers Cor Klinkert & Liesje Santen, dancing resp. the “French Tango”, the “Argentina”, the “Promenade”, the “Reserve Wave” and the “Habanera”.

Film edited from dutch Polygoon-Profilti cinema news reel week 01 , 1930 | Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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