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The '''Java''' is a [[dance]] developed in France in the early part of the 20th century. The origin of its name is uncertain, but it probably evolved from the [[mazurka]], and it was mainly performed to the [[Bal-musette|bal-musette]] [[Music of France|music]] popular between 1910 and 1960 in France.

It is a fast [[waltz]], with the dancers very close together; in fact, some men place their hands on their partner's [[buttocks]] while dancing it. This of course led some of the more respectable bal-musette dance halls to ban the java.

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There is also a [[nightclub]] in [[Paris]], ''La Java'', which had its heyday in the 1930s and remains open today.

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