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• 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.
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HISTORY OF DANCE
18/19th Centuries
20th Century
21st Century
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• 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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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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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.
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Genres/Styles
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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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• 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 your body
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That’s ME!
•ANYTIME YOU WANT,
JUST MOVE YOUR
BODY
MY EXPERIENCES
Dance is used in:
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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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