Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Know More About Dance, As A Performance Art Form

By Peggy Ryersen

Dance, if you want to put a description to it, is simply a form of art, as well as sport. It can be described as rhythmic body movements done gracefully to music. Dance is also used as an emotional release or sometimes used in spiritual or social interactions. Included in this art form are body movements meant to express ideas in a silent non-verbal way. This can also be seen among animals, bees being just one example. There are even some sports that fall under one type or form of partnership dance, such as figure skating, synchronized swimming and even martial arts if the training is done as a synchronized dance in a sport setting.

Through the ages dance has been an expression using movements and a way of expressing emotions of various sorts. It can be found as a ceremonial and competitive art form, social, artistic, moral and many cultural settings. Dance's movement can also be the way of expressing a story such as a hunt or a silent non-verbal way to express the emotions of a courtship ritual.

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.

It is difficult to imagine dancing to the Blue Danube, for example, without music playing in the background, which is how both classical music and classical dance forms joined together, so to speak. Musicians arranged their Rhapsodies and Symphonies to enable anyone who was listening make movements they found complimentary such as gliding, swaying and to dip as they wished. This was the beginning of what we have today setting the stage to numerous 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.

The dance movements are supposed to relax and invigorate a person, because this sort of exercise not only gives him a pleasant workout, but also makes his body more flexible and graceful. The idea of dancing as a soothing and relaxing therapy is being used by therapists in the form of dance movement and dance therapy for better muscular coordination.

Regardless of the reason for wanting to dance, as long as you want to you should go for it!

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