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[[Image:Orlando ballet.jpg|thumb|250px|<center>''Ballet'']]
[[Image:Orlando ballet.jpg|thumb|250px|<center>''Ballet'']]
''Dance'' is an [[The arts|art]] and is a form of movement, motions, and steps, usually done to music. Dance is also a way of communicating, and has been around since the beginning of time. Dance comes in many different forms and categories, such as the [[Waltz]], Polka, Quadrille, Mazurka, Tango, Country Western Dancing, [[Irish Dance]], [[Jazz]], Charleston, Modern, [[Ballet]], Breakdancing, Rumba, [[Salsa]], Swing, Merengue, and many more. Professional dancers are both athletes and artists. Music for dancing can be supplied by any kind of instrument, but generally each kind of dance is associated with a particular type of music.
''Dance'' is an [[The arts|art]] and is a form of movement, motions, and steps, usually done to music. Dance is also a way of communicating, and has been around since the beginning of time. Dance comes in many different forms and categories, such as the [[Waltz]], Polka, Quadrille, Mazurka, Tango, Country Western Dancing, [[Irish Dance]], [[Jazz]], Charleston, Modern, [[Ballet]], Breakdancing, Rumba, [[Salsa]], Swing, Merengue, and many more. Professional dancers are both athletes and artists. Music for dancing can be supplied by any kind of instrument, but generally each kind of dance is associated with a particular type of music.
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''Dance is a transient mode of expression, performed in a given form and style by the human body moving in space. Dance occurs through purposefully selected and controlled rhythmic movements; the resulting phenomenon is recognized as dance both by the performer and the observing members of a given group.'' Anthropologist Joann Kealiinohomoku. <ref>[http://www.answers.com/dance?cat=entertainment Dance] World of the Body. </ref>
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===Ballet===
===Ballet===
According to Mark 6:22-29 the dancing of Herodias' daughter before [[Herod]] and his companions was so pleasing to him that he offered the girl anything "up to half my kingdom". Coached by her mother, she asked for the head of [[John the Baptist]].
According to Mark 6:22-29 the dancing of Herodias' daughter before [[Herod]] and his companions was so pleasing to him that he offered the girl anything "up to half my kingdom". Coached by her mother, she asked for the head of [[John the Baptist]].
===Choreography===
===Choreography===
:: ''The scope of dance heritage is broad. Our heritage is the dance legacy that must be passed from generation to generation through educational dance.'' <ref> [http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=C0yjXGJ3EEoC&pg=PA139&lpg=PA139&dq=Dance+as+art+Ballet&source=web&ots=_mveYEOwUP&sig=z055Nvur-7h3HLiuYNeDvoX1GSA&hl=es#PPA140,M1 Teaching Dance as Art in Education] Autor Brenda Pugh McCutchen. </ref>
:: ''The scope of dance heritage is broad. Our heritage is the dance legacy that must be passed from generation to generation through educational dance.'' <ref> [http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=C0yjXGJ3EEoC&pg=PA139&lpg=PA139&dq=Dance+as+art+Ballet&source=web&ots=_mveYEOwUP&sig=z055Nvur-7h3HLiuYNeDvoX1GSA&hl=es#PPA140,M1 Teaching Dance as Art in Education] Autor Brenda Pugh McCutchen. </ref>
== External links ==
== External links ==