FORMS of DANCE

- Folk dance
- Ritual
- Classical
- Modern
- Contemporary
- Ballroom

HISTORY of DANCE
- Form of expression
- Ritual
- Entertainment
{First evidence: Cave paintings}
Rhythm movement = dancing

RITUAL
- Temples with harps and pipes
o History of a god
o Imitate cosmic patterns
- Funerals
o Grief of mourners
- Olympic games
o Inaugurated with the dancing of temple virgins
ECSTASY
- Highlighted pounding rhythm; alcohol will set the pulse racing and induce mood of frenzied
exhilaration
Example:
o Dionysiac dances
Harvesting grapes in honour of Dionysus (god of wine)
Stomping of feet of women
ENTERTAINMENT
- 1400 B.C.
- Scantily clad girls accompanied by seated musicians to delight males

ENTERTAINMENT leads to BALLET
- Catherine de Medicis
- Louis XIII
o Son of Marie de Medicis
- Louis XIV
o Academie Royal de Danse Academi Royal de Musique Paris Opera
o Paris Operas first Director : Pierre Beauchamp (Choreographer)
5 classic positions for the feet
TANGO
- Argentine Tango
o Influenced by Tango Habanera
- Tango Habanera
o Milonga
Danced and played by country side people of Argentina
o Tango Andaluz
Played with guitar
Known as Tango Flamenco
Danced by Zeta-Jones and Banderas in Zoro
- Compadrito
o Created the straightened out forms of Argentine Tango in early 1900s
*True form of Tango originated in 1938 through Carlos Gardel.*
BALLET
- Can tell us a story
- Express emotion
- Reflect a piece of music
- Choreographed series of movements
- Illusory fantasy world
INDIAN DANCES
- Mudra
o The art of hand movements which tells a story
- When a group of gods and goddesses pleaded to Lord Brahma for a common man, which
created Natyasastra, which is the common root of all classical dance forms in India
CHACHACHA
- Certain plants that produce seedpods known as Cha-Cha. These are used to make small
rattles, also known as Cha-Cha; used by a voodoo band leader as a guide instrument or
metronome to set the time in dancing, singing, and other religious music
- Derived from 2 dances
o Mambo
1953
Cuban orchestra America starts playing Danzon with a new
syncopated beat that sounded like a slow Mambo; Cuban dancers used
a slight triple hip modulation on the slow count, then, Cha-Cha was
born.
o Swing (Lindy as it is danced with a triple step and a break)
SAMBA
- African in origin
- Old Brazilian style of dance
- Pre-Lenten celebration
- Danced at local carnival in Rio where schools of Samba performs
- Instruments
o tamborim, chocalho, reco-reco and cabaca
- First famous Samba music
o Pelo Telefono by Donga
- Pelvic tilt, rapid steps taken on a quarter of a beat and pronounced rocking motion and sway of
the dancers
- Brazilian Waltz
- Became a Ballroom dance in 1930
- Basic rhythm
o quick, quick, slow
- Steps
o Voltas
o Bota Fogos
o Kick change
o Samba sidesteps
o Samba strut
WALTZ
- Walzen
o To turn in German
- Ballroom or Folk dance
- Austria
- Performed in close positions
- Oldest Ballroom dance
- Introduced by Prince Regent in French courts
JAZZ
- New Orleans
- Blues, Folks, March, Ragtince
- Atlantic slave trade brought Africans to the United States
- African music was largely functional for work or ritual
- Slaves were allowed to practice this culture for the Whites to monitor them for uprising and
prevent voodoo practices but drumming was banned
o Whites
Plantation owners


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