Apache, or La Danse Apache, Bowery Waltz, Apache Turn, Apache Dance and Tough Dance is a highly dramatic

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associated in popular culture with

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ian street culture at the beginning of the 20th century. In

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Paris young members of street gangs were labelled

Apaches The Apache () are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Mimbreño, Ndendahe (Bedonkohe or Mogollon and Nednhi or Carrizaleño and ...

by the press because of the ferocity of their savagery towards one another, a name taken from the native North American indigenous people, the

Apache The Apache () are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Mimbreño, Ndendahe (Bedonkohe or Mogollon and Nednhi or Carrizaleño an ...

. Thus the name of the dance is pronounced as the French pronounce it ''ah-PAHSH''. It is not pronounced ''uh-PATCH-ee'' which is the English language pronunciation. The dance is sometimes said to reenact a violent "discussion" between a

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and a

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. It includes mock slaps and punches, the man picking up and throwing the woman to the ground, or lifting and carrying her while she struggles or feigns unconsciousness. Thus, the dance shares many features with the theatrical discipline of

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. In some examples, the woman may fight back.

Origin

In 1908, dancers Maurice Mouvet and

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began to visit the low bars frequented by Apaches in a search for inspiration for new dances. They formulated the new dance from moves seen there and gave to it the name ''Apache''. Max Dearly first performed it in 1908 in Paris at the Ambassadeurs and Maurice in

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at the Kursaal. A short while later, in the summer of 1908, Maurice and his partner Leona performed the dance at

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, and Max Dearly made an even bigger impact with it, partnered with

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, in the

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show, ''La Revue du Moulin''. Mistinguett described the dance as, "an alternation between caresses and struggles, brutality and sensual tenderness." Le Petit Journal - Apache

Music

The music most associated with the Apache dance is the "Valse des Rayons" from the ballet '' Le Papillon'', composed by

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in 1861. An arrangement by Charles Dubourg, titled "Valse Chaloupée" was used by Mistinguett and Max Dearly when performing the dance at the Moulin Rouge in 1908. Other arrangements of the same waltz soon followed, including "L'Amour de L'Apache" in 1909, arranged by Augustus C. Ely. An early example of original music composed for the Apache dance is "Valse Apache," composed by Fernand Le Borne for the 1908 silent film ''L'Empreinte ou la main rouge'' in which Mistinguett and Max Dearly performed the dance. The sheet music for ''L'Empreinte'' contains several cues to the movements in the Apache dance.

Depictions

A 1902 Edison movie of two Bowery dancers, Kid Foley and Sailor Lil doing a ''Tough dance'' which is similar in style, survives. The 1904 Pathé film ''Danse des Apaches'' directed by

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contains an early Apache dance performed by acrobatic dancers from La Scala, Paris. In ''

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'', a 1913 short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, an Apache dance is shown in a restaurant cabaret. The famous French 10-part 7-hour

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'' (1915, re-released on DVD in 2005) about an Apache gang "Vampires" contains a number of Apache dance scenes performed by real street Apache dancers, rather than actors. A notable detail is that during part of the waltz the man holds firmly onto the woman's hair, rather than her body. ''

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'' (1925) shows

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as an Apache dancer, with the dance itself being the first scene in the film.

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performs an Apache dance in the British silent film '' The Rat'' (1925). ''The Sunshine of Paradise Alley'' contains an Apache dance. In ''

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'' (1928) an Apache dance is performed by

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and

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. In the 1929

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cartoon ''

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'', a rooster and hen perform the dance, interrupting it partway through so the hen can rush to her nest and lay an egg. In ''

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in drag dances the woman's part in an Apache dance. In ''The Apache Kid'' (1930), a Krazy Kat cartoon, Columbia's male version of Krazy and his girlfriend, Kitty, perform the dance, interrupting it repeatedly so they can puff at cigarettes. In the 1930 Van Beuren cartoon ''Stone Age Stunts'', part of their Aesop's Fables series, a pair of Stone Age mice perform the dance at a club. In

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's ''

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'' (1931) the Tramp sees an Apache dance in a nightclub and, thinking it is real, interrupts it. The landmark 1932 Hollywood film musical ''

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'' features the song "Poor Apache."

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and

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, does an Apache dance with his star performer and lover Tu Tuan Anna Mae Wong. Also in 1934 the Adagio Dancers, artists Alexis and Dorrano, perform the 'Danse Apache' in a British Pathe short set in a seedy French bar and watched by some "toffs". In the 1934

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cartoon ''Toyland Broadcast'', two dolls Apache dance on piano keys, playing the music of "Valse des rayons", and ending when the girl doll throws the boy doll off the piano and against a

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. In the 1935 movie ''

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'', Charlie Chan's agent (played by

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) is murdered following her performance of an Apache dance. In the 1936 film '' The Devil Doll'', a pair of the titular dolls perform an Apache dance to the tune of the "Valse des rayons" on a

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. In the 1936 British comedy, ''

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'',

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performed a satirical version of Apache dance, at one point throwing her male partner through a stage window. In the 1937 serial '' Blake of Scotland Yard'' there is an Apache dance sequence set in a café in Paris. In the British film ''Okay For Sound'' (1937) The Crazy Gang witness an Apache dance performed by the dancers Lucienne and Ashour in which the female dancer triumphs. In the 1937

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'' a bad-boy spider and a good-girl fly perform a French Apache dance. In the 1938

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musical, ''

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'', the actress delivers a comic Apache stage performance with her co-star Jack Whiting. In ''

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'' (1941) a comic Apache dance is performed to Offenbach's "Valse dey rayons." In '' The Gang's All Here'' (1943)

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does a short, comic version of an Apache dance. In '' Pin Up Girl'' (1944),

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and Angela Blue perform a musical number dressed as Apache dancers. In ''

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'' (1944) Everett McGowan & Ruth Mack - performed the Apache dance on Ice skates named "Cafe de Apache" produced by Republic Films In 1944, the opening scene of '' Die Frau Meiner Träume'' (The Woman of My Dreams), one of the last major

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musicals produced in Nazi Germany, features the actress-dancer

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in an acrobatic Apache dance with two men. The film was extremely popular not only in Germany, but made it to the Soviet film distribution after the war, enjoying similar popularity. The big production finale was taken into the curriculum of the Soviet Film Institute and served as an example of a well crafted musical staging. In the 1946 film, ''The Razor's Edge'', the main characters visit the Rue de Lappe and experience apache dancers in a rather seedy bar. One of the main characters Sophie (portrayed by Ann Baxter) has fallen into alcoholism following the death of her husband and child. She has lost touch with her friends. Then some of them happen on her at the bar with her 'apache' lover - they dance. In the 1947 film '' Crime Doctor's Gamble'', Dr. Robert Ordway (played by

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) visits a seedy Parisian cabaret with an Apache dance sequence. The dance ends with the male dancer Don Graham twirling the female dancer Dolores Graham around by her hair. In the 1949 comedy film ''

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'', Antonio Lumaconi (Totò Le Mokò, played by

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) performs an Apache dance with Flora Torrigiani. An episode of ''

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'', "The Adagio" (1951, season one, episode twelve), revolved around Lucy wanting to learn an Apache dance. In another episode, "The French Revue", Fred and Ethel perform an Apache dance in the hopes of starring in an act at the club with a French singer. In the movie ''Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation'' (1952), Marjorie Main, Ma, takes the woman's part in an apache dance in a night club, where she plays the aggressive role, throwing about the hapless male dancer. Apache Dancers Don & Dolores Graham performed the apache dance in ''

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'' (1954). On October 9, 1955 an Apache dance was performed on ''The Jack Benny Program'' entitled "Massage and Date with Gertrude". Jack, and his date Gertrude were trying to eat their dinner at a French Nightclub while French Apache dancers kept interrupting their meal. The female dancer actually picked Benny up and tossed him out onto another diner's lap. Also in 1955, the movie ''Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy'' features an apache dance in the scene introducing the title characters, where some of the dance interrupted in a predictably slapstick manner. An example of an Apache dance number is seen in Twentieth Century Fox's film ''Can Can'' (1960) starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine and Maurice Chevalier. The number is performed by Shirley MacLaine along with five male dancers as they toss and thrash her about. In this version she fights back and eventually "kills" all five dancers with a knife. In the

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short, ''

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'' (1962), a cigarette-smoking couple is depicted performing an Apache inside a basement

apartment. Just as the man lifts the woman into the air by her midsection,

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strolls by an open window while singing ''

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'', causing both of them to humorously wilt like flowers from his overpowering stench. An episode of ''

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'', (1976, season one, episode five), included a "French tango" performed by guest Rita Moreno. It was Moreno's idea to perform an apache dance.

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did the choreography. An Apache dance also figures in the musical ''

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'' (1968). When

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set out to create a more than usually fascinating musical mix and included a wide variety of musical genres in this show, he added a very French number. When Joseph's brothers are explaining their impoverished state, after selling Joseph into slavery and experiencing the seven lean years, they sing about "Those Canaan Days" reminiscing of better days. Included within that number is an Apache Dance, a brief joyous celebration of what once was and a poignant expression of their regret for their actions. In the movie ''

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'' (2001), "El Tango de Roxane" is performed as a

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with Apache elements. In the

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video " I Don't Care" (2007), Apache dance is featured in a scene between

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and a woman. In the

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video "

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" (2013), the singer and male dancer Colt Prattes can be seen performing an interpretation of the Apache dance choreography by The golden Boyz - R J Durrell and Nick Florez - and aerial choreographer

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References

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