Apache (French: [a.paʃ]), or La Danse Apache, Bowery Waltz, Apache Turn, Apache Dance and Tough Dance is a highly dramatic dance associated in popular culture with Parisian street culture at the beginning of the 20th century.

Here is their original and stellar interpretation of "The Apache" - or should I say "L"Apache!" Bravo!...more

From 1935. The music is from Jacques Offenbach's "Valse des rayons".

La valse chaloupée, aussi appelée simplement la chaloupée 1 ou danse apache (notamment en anglais 2), est une danse qui devient très populaire à Paris en 1908 et reste dansée régulièrement jusque dans les années 1960 3.

Jul 15, 2021 · This video contains two French Apache dance scenes from early silent films. The first is from "La tournée des grands ducs" (1910), danced by Polaire.

The hidden story of the Apache dance Richard Powers Have you seen the French Apache dance? In Irene Castle's words, this was a dance "in which the male dancer tries to demolish the female dancer, as spectacularly as possible, and usually succeeds."

Les apaches sont dès lors décrits comme une « franc-maçonnerie basée sur une étroite entente dans le mal » 31, qui devient le pendant « réel » des bandes criminelles du roman policier : bande des Ténébreux (dans le Fantômas de Pierre Souvestre et Marcel Allain), Secte noire (Dans La Fiancée de la secte noire de Guy de Téramond ...

Jun 27, 2016 · Certain aspects of Les Apaches found their way into French and then European “pop” culture of the time, from the “traditional” Apache horizontally striped shirt to a violent dance. Classes were even available so that one could learn the Apache argot or patois — the fashionable (among some) “thieves slang.”

Jul 8, 2021 · This video begins with Polaire in the Apache dance scene from "La tournée des grands ducs" (1910). The dance lasts about a minute; the full film can be seen in the DVD set "Screening the Poor 1888-1914", available from Edition Filmmuseum.

APACHE ... Début de la danse après une intro de 24 temps 1 à 8 1&2 3-4 5&6 7&8 TRIPLE FORWARD, ROCK STEP FORWARD, SHUFFLE BACK, COASTER STEP