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BRIEF HISTORY AND reliefs, and in literary records in
hieroglyphs. Most of the dances
NATURE OF DANCE during this era were chiefly a What is dance? medium of religious expression. Dance focuses primarily on “an aesthetic or even entertaining experience”. People still dance B. ANCIENT GREEKS mainly for four reasons; Dance was taught as an aid to 1. To please the gods military education among the 2. To please others boys in Athens and Sparta. It was 3. To please themselves or not just for religious and military self-expression training but also a form of 4. To build community within entertainment and display. an ethnic group of social Dance was also used in education. interaction Greek philosophers such as plato, aristotle, and Socrates strongly What is dance? supported this art as integration of A series of body movements that are the body and soul. Plato highlighted done accompanied by music. It is a the 2 kinds of dance and music: major form of religious ritual and 1. Noble - fine and honorable social expression within primitive 2. Ignoble - imitating what is mean or cultures. It was used as a way of ugly expressing and reinforcing tribal unity and strength, as an approach C. ANCIENT ROME for courtship and mating, as means Dance became brutal and of worship, communication, and sensationalized as their experience. entertainers were slaves and captives from nationalities and it was used more often for gruesome Purpose of dancing purposes. Dance eventually became a. To entertain an integral part of corruption in the b. To express latter days of the Roman Empire, c. To communicate resulting in the condemnation dance d. To become healthy by the early christians. e. To introduce
Do you know where dances came from?
Dances thrived at different periods of history and mostly were a result of intercultural exchange and contract ( Alejandro & Santos - Gana,2002 ). Man danced originally to supplicate the god on all important occasions of life. ( Kraus & Gaufman, 1981 ).
A. PRE-CHRISTIAN ERA Dance became full blown and was richly recorded in ancient Egypt. It was reflected in their wall paintings,
