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Dance Fever was a syndicated musical variety series in which three celebrities judged amateur dancers to hottest disco hits of the day. It was created and produced by Merv Griffin, written by Tony Garofalo and hosted by Deney Terrio and later Adrian Zmed. The show also featured a segment in which some of the top Disco, Pop or R&B artists of the day would perform their latest hit. The series was aired in 1979 and lasted until 1987. The show was revived in 2003 with actor and MC Eric Nies as the host and Carmen Electra, Jamie King and MC Hammer as the regular celebrity judges. Mervyn Edward Merv Griffin, Jr. ... Deney Terrio was the host of the television musical variety series Dance Fever from 1979 to 1987. ... Adrian Zmed (born March 14, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Romanian-American television and film actor. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Eric Nies (born May 23, 1971) was born and raised in Ocean Township, New Jersey, is an accomplished actor, model, dancer, and singer. ... “Tara Patrick” redirects here. ... This article is about the male choreographer. ... MC Hammer (born Stanley Kirk Burrell on March 30, 1962) is an American MC who was popular during the late 1980s and early 1990s, known for his dramatic rise to and fall from fame and fortune, his trademark Hammer pants, and for leaving a lasting influence on hip hop culture...


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Dance Fever (896 words)
The engrossing passages describing early African dances brought to the Americas clarify why authorities throughout history have banned dancing: It is scary in its power and capacity to bring people together.
Because tango is a dance form that straddles art and life, and because some of its best practitioners were never on a stage, many of them might have been left unnamed.
It is a paean to all the feet, hands, hips that went before us, to all the dancers who saw, borrowed and stole movement that they loved to see, had to do, needed to try in order to make their place in the world matter.
Dance Fever (949 words)
The dance companies then sponsor “national” competitions that are really “super regional” competitions in that they have “nationals” in different parts of the country in a single season or year.
Some choreography has pre-teens and young teens dancing and looking like exotic dancers, ready to accept dollar bills wherever they can be held in their skimpy costumes.
Every dance number requires a fee to be paid by the studio to the dance companies (which are paid by the dancers’ moms and dads).
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