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    Lesson1 Dance2

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    Dance is an art form that uses rhythmic bodily movement, often set to music. It can be used to tell stories, set moods, or express emotions. Dance involves the elements of body, action/movement through space and time, and energy. The body is the instrument of dance, and movement can include steps, gestures, lifts or everyday motions. Dancers manipulate space, timing, relationships and energy to create and perform dances.

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    Dance is an art form that uses rhythmic bodily movement, often set to music. It can be used to tell stories, set moods, or express emotions. Dance involves the elements of body, action/movement through space and time, and energy. The body is the instrument of dance, and movement can include steps, gestures, lifts or everyday motions. Dancers manipulate space, timing, relationships and energy to create and perform dances.

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    Dance is an art form that uses rhythmic bodily movement, often set to music. It can be used to tell stories, set moods, or express emotions. Dance involves the elements of body, action/movement through space and time, and energy. The body is the instrument of dance, and movement can include steps, gestures, lifts or everyday motions. Dancers manipulate space, timing, relationships and energy to create and perform dances.

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    Dance is an art form that uses rhythmic bodily movement, often set to music. It can be used to tell stories, set moods, or express emotions. Dance involves the elements of body, action/movement through space and time, and energy. The body is the instrument of dance, and movement can include steps, gestures, lifts or everyday motions. Dancers manipulate space, timing, relationships and energy to create and perform dances.

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    What is a

    Dance?
    It is a form
    art using rhythmic
    bodily movements
    expressing ideas
    and emotions and
    accompanied by
    music.
    As an art form,
    it may tell
    story, set a
    mood or
    express an
    emotion.
    It is also a
    form of
    recreation
    and
    socialization.
    “to represent
    men’s characters as
    well as what they
    do and suffer”
    - Aristotle
    “Dancing is an
    elegant, and regular
    movement,
    harmoniously
    composed of beautiful
    Attitudes, and
    contrasted graceful
    Posture of the Body,
    and parts thereof.” ”
    - John Weaver
    English Ballet Master
    “The crude and
    spontaneous
    movement of early
    man”
    - Gaston Vuillier
    19th-century French dance historian
    “physical
    expression of inner
    emotion”
    - John Martin
    20th-century dance critic
    A truly universal definition
    of dance must, therefore, return
    to the fundamental principle
    that dance is an art form or
    activity that utilizes the body
    and the range of movement of
    which the body is capable.
    Unlike the movements
    performed in everyday living,
    dance movements are not
    directly related to work, travel,
    or survival.
    The
    Elements
    of Dance
    The renowned dance critic
    Walter Terry wrote, "No
    paints nor brushes,
    marbles nor chisels, pianos
    or violins are needed to
    make this art, for we are
    the stuff that dance is
    made of. It is born in our
    body, exists in our body
    and dies in our body.
    Dance, then, is the most
    personal of all the arts . . . it
    springs from the very breath of
    life." the body is the mobile
    figure or shape, felt by the
    dancer, seen by others. The
    body is sometimes relatively
    still and sometimes changing as
    the dancer moves in place or
    travels through the dance area.
    Dancers may emphasize specific
    parts of their body in a dance
    phrase or use their whole body
    all at once.
    is any human movement
    included in the act of dancing—
    it can include dance steps, facial
    movements, partner lifts,
    gestures, and even everyday
    movements such as walking.
    Dance is made up of streams of
    movement and pauses, so action
    refers not only to steps and
    sequences, but also to pauses
    and moments of relative
    stillness.
    Movement can also be
    improvised, meaning that
    the dancers make it up "on
    the spot" as they
    spontaneously dance.
    Movement that travels
    through space is broadly
    called locomotor movement
    in contrast to axial
    movement, which occurs in
    one spot.
    Dancers interact with
    space in myriad ways.
    They may stay in one
    place or they may travel
    from one place to
    another. They may alter
    the direction, level, size,
    and pathways of their
    movements.
    The relationships of the dancers
    to each other may be based on
    geometric designs or rapidly
    change as they move close
    together, then apart. Even when
    a dancer is dancing alone in a
    solo, the dancer is dynamically
    involved in the space of the
    performing area so that space
    might almost be considered a
    partner in the dance.
    Spatial relationships
    between dancers or
    between dancers and
    objects are the basis for
    design concepts such as
    beside, in front of, over,
    through, around, near or
    far.
    The keyword for the
    element of time is when?
    Human movement is
    naturally rhythmic in the
    broad sense that we
    alternate activity and rest.
    Breath and waves are
    examples of rhythms in
    nature that repeat, but not
    as consistently as in a
    metered rhythm.
    Rhythmic patterns may
    be metered or free
    rhythm. Much of
    western music uses
    repeating patterns (2/4
    or 3/4 for example), but
    concepts of time and
    meter are used very
    differently throughout
    the world.
    Dance movements may
    also show different
    timing relationships
    such as simultaneous or
    sequential timing, brief
    to long duration, fast to
    slow speed, or accents
    in predictable or
    unpredictable intervals.
    is about how the movement
    happens. Choices about energy
    include variations in movement
    flow and the use of force, tension,
    and weight. An arm gesture might
    be free flowing or easily stopped,
    and it may be powerful or gentle,
    tight or loose, heavy or light. A
    dancer may step into an
    arabesque position with a sharp,
    percussive attack or with light,
    flowing ease.
    Saying that a dance "has a
    lot of energy" is misleading.
    ALL dances use the element
    of energy, though in some
    instances it may be slow,
    supple, indirect energy - not
    the punchy, high speed
    energy of a fast tempo
    dance.

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