Apache (dance)
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.
In 1908, dancers Maurice Mouvet and Max Dearly began to visit the low bars frequented by Apaches in a search for inspiration for new dances.
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.
[6] A 1902 Edison movie[7] of two Bowery dancers, Kid Foley and Sailor Lil doing a Tough dance which is similar in style, survives.
In 1934's Limehouse Blues, nightclub owner Harry Young, George Raft, 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 1936 film Roarin' Lead, an entry in Republic's Three Mesquiteers series of B-Westerns, a group of orphans stages a fundraising show in which two of them perform a diminutive version of an Apache dance.
In the 1936 British comedy, Queen of Hearts, Gracie Fields performed a satirical version of Apache dance, at one point throwing her male partner through a stage window.
In the 1937 Silly Symphony Woodland Café a bad-boy spider and a good-girl fly perform a French Apache dance.
In the 1938 Jessie Matthews musical, Sailing Along, the actress delivers a comic Apache stage performance with her co-star Jack Whiting.
[citation needed] In Pin Up Girl (1944), Betty Grable, Hermes Pan and Angela Blue perform a musical number dressed as Apache dancers.
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.
In the 1947 film Crime Doctor's Gamble, Dr. Robert Ordway (played by Warner Baxter) visits a seedy Parisian cabaret with an Apache dance sequence.
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.
Just as the man lifts the woman into the air by her midsection, Pepé Le Pew strolls by an open window while singing Auprès de ma blonde, causing both of them to humorously wilt like flowers from his overpowering stench.
[citation needed] In the Apocalyptica video "I Don't Care" (2007), Apache dance is featured in a scene between Adam Gontier and a woman.
[citation needed] In the Pink video "Try" (2013), the singer and male dancer Colt Prattes can be seen performing an interpretation of the Apache dance[18] choreography by The golden Boyz - R J Durrell and Nick Florez - and aerial choreographer Sebastien Stella.
