Explore: Discothèques (dancings)

also referred to as "discos" or "discothèques" (German: Disko or Diskothek, outdated; nowadays: Club); French: discothèque; Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish:

and horns, electric pianos, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars. Discothèques as a venue were mostly a French invention, imported to the United States

known examples of weather modification rituals are North American rain dances, historically performed by many Native American tribes, particularly in

beauty of dancing away from me and I would get old." By the mid-sixties, American imitations of European discothèques—clubs where the patrons danced to records

reached number one on the American and Canadian dance and alternative charts. A 30-second sample of "Discothèque" was leaked to the Internet on 26 October 1996

Tony James were struck by the sight of the young crowd in a Tokyo discotheque dancing with their own reflections in mirrored walls rather than with one

steps created by African-American dancers who frequented the clubs and discothèques in major U.S. cities like New York, Philadelphia and Detroit. Among these

5 April 1986, three people were killed and 229 injured when La Belle discothèque was bombed in the Friedenau locality (then part of Schöneberg, and since

go-go dancers than female go-go dancers in today's club scene, a big turnaround from the 1960s.[better source needed] During the 1970s discotheques became

events industry at the time. Digital download/streaming "Crying at the Discotheque" – 3:51 "Alcazar – Crying at the Discoteque". Singles Top 100. Masterton