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    Nature and Background of Dance

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    This document discusses the history and purposes of dance. It notes that dance can serve recreational, entertainment, therapeutic, and religious purposes. Primarily, dance originated as a form of religious ritual and social expression in primitive cultures used to communicate, appease gods, and build community. In ancient Greece, dance was mainly used for religious expression and was seen as a way to integrate body and soul through education, as philosophers like Plato emphasized. Dance has continued to serve purposes of pleasing gods, others, oneself, and building social interaction and community.

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    This document discusses the history and purposes of dance. It notes that dance can serve recreational, entertainment, therapeutic, and religious purposes. Primarily, dance originated as a form of religious ritual and social expression in primitive cultures used to communicate, appease gods, and build community. In ancient Greece, dance was mainly used for religious expression and was seen as a way to integrate body and soul through education, as philosophers like Plato emphasized. Dance has continued to serve purposes of pleasing gods, others, oneself, and building social interaction and community.

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    This document discusses the history and purposes of dance. It notes that dance can serve recreational, entertainment, therapeutic, and religious purposes. Primarily, dance originated as a form of religious ritual and social expression in primitive cultures used to communicate, appease gods, and build community. In ancient Greece, dance was mainly used for religious expression and was seen as a way to integrate body and soul through education, as philosophers like Plato emphasized. Dance has continued to serve purposes of pleasing gods, others, oneself, and building social interaction and community.

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    Nature and Background of Dance

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    This document discusses the history and purposes of dance. It notes that dance can serve recreational, entertainment, therapeutic, and religious purposes. Primarily, dance originated as a form of religious ritual and social expression in primitive cultures used to communicate, appease gods, and build community. In ancient Greece, dance was mainly used for religious expression and was seen as a way to integrate body and soul through education, as philosophers like Plato emphasized. Dance has continued to serve purposes of pleasing gods, others, oneself, and building social interaction and community.

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    Nature and Background of

    Dance
    Dance

    • Is an activity which can take many forms and


    fill many different needs. It can be recreation,
    entertainment, therapy, and religion.
    • In its purest and most basic form, dance is
    art, the art of body movement (Barbara
    Mettler, 1980)
    Why people still dance?

    • To please gods
    • To lease others
    • To please themselves or self expression
    • To build community within an ethnic group or
    social interaction (Myers, 2005)
    Primitive cultures

    • Major forms of religious ritual and social expression.


    • It was as a way of expressing and re-enforcing tribal unity and strength, as
    an approach for courtship and mating, and as means of worship,
    communication, and therapeutic experience.
    • It was said that the first use of dance was a gesture in order to communicate.
    • Appease the forces of nature or give them new powers of their own
    • (Kraus and Gaufman (1981) said, “man danced originally to supplicate the
    Gods on all important occasions of life
    Ancient Greek
    • It was reflected on their wall paintings , reliefs, and
    literary record in hieroglyphs.
    • Dances during this era were chiefly a medium of religious
    expression
    • Dance as an aid to military education (boys, Athens and
    Sparta)
    • Entertainment and display
    • Dance as education
    • Dance as an integration of the body and soul. (Plato,
    Aristotle, and Socrates )
    • Plato immensely gave importance to dance in
    education as stated in his elucidation

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