Friday, October 30, 2009

Looking At Dance As A Performance Art Form

By Peggy Ryersen

Dance is both a sport and art. It basically refers to any kind of body movements which are rhythmic and graceful and performed along with music. Dancing allows people to express their emotions or social interactions when in a spiritual or social situation. The ideas can be expressed by body movements and are a way of communicating without having to be verbal. This form of communication is not just limited to humans and is often found in nature. One such example would be bees. Other types of partner dancing include figure skating and synchronized swimming.

Dancing is more than just its movements. A lot of dance forms depend on other factors, such as the social, moral aesthetic and cultural settings. Any restraints placed upon free expression or competitions can also affect dance forms, as well as ceremonial performing arts. In this case the dance can tell a story or show an expression or emotion.

Different types of dance forms can take the form of classical dance like the tango, ballroom dancing, ballet, and even the waltz. There are plenty of competitions in which these classical dances are held on a performance level. If you are interested in dancing as a career, you can go in for professional dancing with dance companies, become a choreographer for dance performances and even training fledgling dancers to dance in traditional, ethnic, and ceremonial dance forms. You can teach your students to perform as a solo dance performer, a partner Dance performer or take part in a properly choreographed group dance.

Music and dance just go together. It is hard to imagine a famous show, like the Blue Danube, being performed without the music. It is only logical that both dance and music evolved as musicians started to compose their symphonies or rhapsodies in a way that allowed people listening to the music to move with it. Such movements included dipping, gliding and swaying in such a way that seems suitable to the listener. Only after the music was composed were fixed sets of moves for a dance decided upon. This enabled the development of many dance forms.

There is a term you are probably familiar with, which is "dancing to your own drum". In this case, in rhythm and dance, this is simply dancing with no music. A form of this type of dance is tap dancing. It is in itself an amazing way of making music with a rhythmic tapping off of the feet.

Dance is also being used as a form of therapy for better muscular coordination by therapists since it is a form that is both not only a pleasant workout but helps the body in its flexibility and gracefulness and if that were not enough these dance movements are said to be both relaxing and invigorating.

Finally no reason is needed! If the music makes you want to get up and dance, then start dancing!

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