Longest Conga Dance
Dance 10 facts
In Ukraine, the national dance is called ‘Hopak’. It is danced in a closed circle with surprisingly, no fixed pattern of steps. Men competitively improvise steps, high leaps, squatting kicks, and turns; women dance simple steps, sway, clap, or circle.
Due to the high physical demand on their bodies, most professional dances retire from dancing during their mid-30s.
119,986 people in Miami set a world record for the longest conga dance line in 1988.
The “Dancing Plague” of 1518 was a mania that lasted a month and killed dozens of people in Strasbourg, France, through exhaustion or heart attack. People just danced uncontrollably until they collapsed! One other famous case involved people dancing on a bridge. Eventually so many people danced that they broke the bridge and fell into the river.
The dance world is full of superstitions. By saying: “break a leg” before a show, people are saying the exact opposite of what they hope will happen on stage.
African slaves that were brought in Brazil 300-400 years ago were prohibited from practicing martial arts. Therefore, they developed the mix of dancing and fighting that is known today as ‘Capoeira’.
Male dancers lift an average of 1 tons of female dancers in a ballet performance.
In NYC, 358 people – including a 73-year old woman, broke the twerking world record.
In Bharata Natyam, Kathak and Odissi (different regional forms of classical Indian dance) dancers wear heavy anklets of multiple bells called ‘‘Ghungroo’’. ‘Ghungroo’’ highlight and emphasize the rhythms of the dancer's feet. Dancers can wear up to 200 bells - 100 on each ankle.
Social dancing is equal to the exercise of a four mile walk!
In Ukraine, the national dance is called ‘Hopak’. It is danced in a closed circle with surprisingly, no fixed pattern of steps. Men competitively improvise steps, high leaps, squatting kicks, and turns; women dance simple steps, sway, clap, or circle.
Due to the high physical demand on their bodies, most professional dances retire from dancing during their mid-30s.
119,986 people in Miami set a world record for the longest conga dance line in 1988.
The “Dancing Plague” of 1518 was a mania that lasted a month and killed dozens of people in Strasbourg, France, through exhaustion or heart attack. People just danced uncontrollably until they collapsed! One other famous case involved people dancing on a bridge. Eventually so many people danced that they broke the bridge and fell into the river.
The dance world is full of superstitions. By saying: “break a leg” before a show, people are saying the exact opposite of what they hope will happen on stage.
African slaves that were brought in Brazil 300-400 years ago were prohibited from practicing martial arts. Therefore, they developed the mix of dancing and fighting that is known today as ‘Capoeira’.
Male dancers lift an average of 1 tons of female dancers in a ballet performance.
In NYC, 358 people – including a 73-year old woman, broke the twerking world record.
In Bharata Natyam, Kathak and Odissi (different regional forms of classical Indian dance) dancers wear heavy anklets of multiple bells called ‘‘Ghungroo’’. ‘Ghungroo’’ highlight and emphasize the rhythms of the dancer's feet. Dancers can wear up to 200 bells - 100 on each ankle.
Social dancing is equal to the exercise of a four mile walk!