Dance

Dance is an art and is a form of movement, motions, and steps. 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. Ballet is a specific dance form and technique. Works of dance choreographed using this technique are called ballets, and may include dance, music, acting and mime. Ballet was first developed in the Renaissance in Italy and France, and later in Russia as a concert dance form. Classical ballet is the most formal of the different ballet styles. Ballet, as practised in Europe and the US, emphasizes the abstract geometry of bodily form exploring the heights and extensions the body can achieve both on the floor and in the air...

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.

Choreography is the composition and arrangement of dances; the general art principles of design, like harmony, unity, variety, repetition, proportion, contrast, sequence, transition, balance and climax, must be used to create an aesthetic 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.

Professional dancers are both, athletes and artists.

External links

Preparing to Dance by Shoen Uemura

• The Dance Art Museum of the Americas
• Ballet
• Physics and Dance
• Choreography