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'''Dance''' is a [[performing art]]. It is described in many ways. It is when people move to a musical [[rhythm]]. They may be alone, or in a group. The dance may be an informal [[Play (theatre)|play]], a part of a [[ritual]], or a part of a professional [[performance]]. There are many kinds of dances, and every human [[society]] has its own dances.<br />
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As with other performing arts, some people dance to express their feelings and [[emotion]]s, or to feel better. Dance can be used to tell a [[story]]. In some societies, dance goes with [[song]] as well as [[music]]. Dancing is sometimes done as [[sport]], and has similar athletic aspects. People who want to learn to dance can go to dance schools. It may take years of practice to become an experienced and capable dancer.<br />
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To plan a dance is called ''[[choreography]]'', done by a [[choreographer]].<ref>Crane Debra & Mackrell, Judith 2000. ''The Oxford Dictionary of Dance''. Oxford University Press, Oxford. [this book only deals with ballet]</ref> Often this goes with music, and fits into a certain style. Dances may be planned in detail, or they may be whatever dancers feel like doing. However, most dancing does follow some general style or [[pattern]]. One style is the couple dance, where (usually) a man and a woman dance together. Other dances need an ensemble, a group of people together to make it work.<br />
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== History == <br />
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People have always danced. Every society has its own dances. There are pictures, on [[pottery]] and [[stone]], which show dances from several thousand years ago, in [[Egypt]] and [[Greece]].<ref name="Sachs">Sachs, Curt 1937. ''The world history of the dance''. Norton, N.Y. <sup>Chapter5</sup></ref><br />
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Sachs divides early dances into 'Imageless dances' and 'Image dances'. By 'imageless dances' he meant dances which have no set form, but aim at getting the dancers into a state of [[Ecstasy (emotion)|ecstasy]]. In this state the dancer(s) seem changed, in a [[trance]], and are often thought of (by their society) as being 'possessed by [[spirit]]s'. These dances are done on certain occasions: marriage, war, famine, illness or death, and so on. They are found in all early ('primitive') societies.<ref name=Sachs/><sup>p49; 62</sup><br />
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The 'image dances', according to Sachs, are to do with the world outside the dancer. By imitating an animal or object, the dancer believes he can capture a power and make it useful. To dance in imitation of the animal which is going to be hunted is to become one with them. To imitate the act of [[sex]] is to achieve [[fertility]]. This is the kind of thinking behind an image dance. Sachs points out that societies of this kind do not really understand the connection between [[Causality|cause and effect]]. They really believe the image dances work. The dance type which is used in image dances is [[mime]].<ref name=Sachs/><sup>p49; 77</sup><br />
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The two styles of dance may be joined together. Fertility dances may involve both ecstatic states and mime. The great dancer [[Nijinsky]] used some of these ideas in his [[choreography]] for the [[ballet]] ''[[Le Sacre du Printemps]]'' (The Rite of Spring), a ballet about the sacrifice of a girl during a primitive celebration of Spring.<br />
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In more recent times, the first dance school we know about was opened in 1661 in [[Paris]]. Only men were accepted until 1681. After 1681, women were accepted too. [[Ballroom dance]]s are forms of [[modern dance]]. Ballroom dances such as the [[Waltz (International)|waltz]] are done by couples.<br />
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Until the 20th century, most ballroom dances were [[sequence dance]]s. The way people moved was planned in set formation. These formations were usually lines or squares. Everyone moved at the same time, and finished at the same time. The music played for a set time, and then stopped. After the invention of the [[Waltz (International)|waltz]], around 1800, another style of dancing developed.<ref>Wood, Melusine 1952. ''Historical dances: 12th to 19th centuries''. Dance Books, London.</ref> In the waltz, and later dances, people danced in couples, but they did so separately. They did not dance in formation, but moved round the room as they pleased (but anti-clockwise). Often, new dance styles arrive. Some dance as individuals, separately, as they please. [[Street dance]] is like that. All these types of dance have music.<br />
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At the same time, round the world there are many traditional dances. Some of them have been going for hundreds of years. We call them [[folklore|folkloric]] dances.<br />
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The coming of popular [[music video]]s and [[DVD]]s led to a kind of dancer previously seen in some [[stage (theatre)|stage]] shows. A '''backup dancer''' (or background dancer) is a performer who dances with or behind the lead performers in a live musical act or in a music video.<ref name="www.tele">{{Cite web |first=Will |last=Storr<br />
| title = The truth about life as a background dancer<br />
| url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/dance/8554651/The-truth-about-life-as-a-background-dancer.html<br />
| work = The Telegraph | date = 5 June 2011 | accessdate = 13 June 2013 }}</ref><br />
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== Styles ==<br />
[[File:1991-Silje Studio 11år.jpg|thumb|220px|Ballet: Silje does an arabesque (by her father, Frode Inge Helland)]]<br />
There are many different styles of dance, which fall into these general types:<br />
[[File:Cha-Cha-Cha Vodicar Bychkova 0686.JPG|alt=|thumb|329x329px|An adult couple dances in Latin dance competitions in Austria.]]<br />
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* Classic dance<br />
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*Professional dancing<br />
**[[Ballet]]<br />
**[[Modern dance]]<br />
**[[Theatre]] dance<br />
**[[Belly dancing]]<br />
**[[Jazz dance]]<br />
**[[Tap dance]]<br />
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*Social dancing<br />
**[[Ballroom dancing]] (International style) <br />
***[[Waltz (International)|Waltz]]<br />
***[[Foxtrot]]<br />
***[[Tango]]<br />
***[[Quickstep]]<br />
***[[Viennese waltz]]<br />
***[[Cha-cha-cha]]<br />
***[[Jive (dance)|Jive]]<br />
***[[Paso doble]]<br />
***[[Samba]]<br />
***[[Rumba]]<br />
**Other styles<br />
***[[Salsa]]<br />
***[[Rock and Roll]]<br />
**[[Street dance]]<br />
***[[Breakdancing]]<br />
***[[Funk]]<br />
***[[Hip hop]]<br />
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*Folk dance<br />
**[[Irish Dance]]<br />
**[[Morris Dance]]<br />
**[[Country Dance]]<br />
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*[[Indian Classical Dances]]<br />
**[[Bharat Natyam]]<br />
**[[Kathak]]<br />
**[[Mohini Attam]]<br />
**[[Kathakali]]<br />
**[[Kuchipudi]]<br />
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== Professional dancers ==<br />
*[[Alvin Ailey]] <br />
*[[George Balanchine]]<br />
*[[Vernon and Irene Castle]]<br />
*[[Misty Copeland]]<br />
*[[Katherine Dunham]]<br />
*[[Bob Fosse]]<br />
*[[Loie Fuller]]<br />
*[[Gene Kelly]]<br />
*[[Vaslav Nijinsky]]<br />
*[[Margot Fonteyn]]<br />
*[[Monsieur Pierre]]<br />
*[[Antonio Ruiz Soler]]<br />
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