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WHAT IS DANCE?

THE HISTORY STYLES

WHO? HOW? WHEN?

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What is Dance?• Dance is an art form that generally refers

to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting.

• Dance may also be regarded as a form of nonverbal communication between humans

• Every dance, no matter what style, has something in common. It not only involves flexibility and body movement, but also physics. Contents

HISTORY OF DANCE

18/19th Centuries 20th Century 21st Century

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18/19th Centuries• In the 18th Century Ballet and Ballerina’s

were extremely important. This type of dance was used to convey seriousness, emotions, fantasy, and spiritual worlds. Many other forms of Dance had not been introduced during this time. Ballet developed throughout Europe in the 18th Century.

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20th Century• The form of Ballet was falling into a more contemporary style

of dance. This was because people wanted to break the mole of classical ballet.

• Freedom was a little more accepted and modern dance began to arise amongst dancers in many areas.

• Most of the Early 20th Century Choreographers saw ballet in a negative light.

• It was during the explosion of new thinking and exploration in the early 20th century that dance artists began to appreciate the qualities of the individual, the necessities of ritual and religion, the primitive, the expressive and the emotional. In this atmosphere modern dance began an explosion of growth. There was suddenly a new freedom in what was considered acceptable, what was considered art, and what people wanted to create. All kinds of other things were suddenly valued as much as, or beyond, the costumes and tricks of the ballet.

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21ST CENTURY• Hip-hop dance started when Clive Campbell, aka Kool DJ Herc and the

father of hip-hop, came to New York from Jamaica in 1967. Toting the seeds of reggae from his homeland, he is credited with being the first DJ to use two turntables and identical copies of the same record to create his jams. But it was his extension of the breaks in these songs—the musical section where the percussive beats were most aggressive—that allowed him to create and name a culture of break boys and break girls who laid it down when the breaks came up. Briefly termed b-boys and b-girls, these dancers founded breakdancing, which is now a cornerstone of hip-hop dance

• . After the explosion of modern dance in the early 20th century, the 1960s saw the growth of postmodernism. Postmodernism veered towards simplicity, the beauty of small things, the beauty of untrained body, and unsophisticated movement. The famous 'No' manifesto rejecting all costumes, stories and outer trappings in favor of raw and unpolished movement was perhaps the extreme of this wave of thinking. Unfortunately lack of costumes, stories and outer trappings do not make a good dance show, and it was not long before sets, décor and shock value re-entered the vocabulary of modern choreographers. Back

Genres/Styles• Traditional Jazz/African-American Vernacular dance• Free Style• Hip-Hop & Funk Dance• Ballet• Ballroom Dance• Latin Dance• Swing Dance• Traditional Dance• Historical Dance• Belly Dance• Modern • Contemporary

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Who can dance?…anyone, any age!

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HOW?• There are a variety of ways that

you can learn to dance. • Sign up at a dance studio (Most

professional dancers have been trained from a young age, but it’s never to late)

• Watch www.youtube.com • Just turn on the music and move

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•ANYTIME YOU WANT, JUST MOVE YOUR BODY

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Dance is used in:

• Movies• Drill Team• Color Guard• Band• Classrooms• Broadway• Exercise• Cultural

Remember, Dance Like No

one is watching…

References:

• www.wikipedia.org• Motions of the Body

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