ANCIENT DANCE

Ancient Dance

Abstract

The dance or dancing is the execution of movements made with the body, mainly arms and legs that go according to the music you want to dance. This dance has a specific duration ranging from seconds, minutes and even hours and can be artistic, entertainment or religious. Similarly, it is also a way to express our feelings and emotions through gestures fine, harmonious and coordinated. The dance, in many cases it is also a form of communication, since it uses non-verbal language. It is one of the few arts where we ourselves are the material and point of care. It is a fine art, expressive and exciting in many ways, both for those who enjoy its contemplation (public) and for the dancers at that time (dancer) and to be entertaining (in most cases) can be enjoyed for all people, but sometimes, to appreciate one specific type of dance, will depend on the audience, as the dancer. In this paper we try to focus on the Ancient Dance.

Ancient Dance

Introduction

Importantly, the dance is one of the most symbolic arts, because, mainly, it emphasizes the need to convey emotions and communicate a message to the audience.

Victorian ballroom dances at the Gaskell Ball

Background

Music, named after the Muses, from Asia Minor and in Greece came in about the seventh century C, it is important to note that the Greeks considered the music of divine origin and therefore were found to attend concerts, which had their greatest exponents during the fourth century C.

So important was the music for the daily life of the Greeks who used to accompany the daily work and served as support to various forms of poetry, it should be noted also that the children received musical training from childhood. A minor detail is not in the Greek music, was the fact that the Greeks did not practice the song for several voices (polyphony) and yes they did together.

The dance was also considered by the Greeks of divine origin, and form a kind of language used to express their deepest feelings and emotions, which does not put emphasis on the perfection of interpretation but on the strength of characterization. Like the music, the dance was present in the most significant moments in the life of the Greeks accompanying banquets, weddings and funerals. On the other hand, literary works, like tragedies, comedies and satirical dramas, including the representation of various types of dance.

Many types of dance had a religious character, such as ...