Dance

1. Dance Morgan Livingston

2. What is Dance? • Webster: to move or seem to move up and down or about in a quick or lively manner. • Google: move rhythmically to music, typically following a set sequence of steps. • Wikipedia: a type of art that generally involves movement of the body, often rhythmic and to music. It is performed in many cultures as a form of emotional expression, social interaction, exercise, in a spiritual or performance setting, and is sometimes used to express ideas or tell a story.

3. Quotes • “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” –Friedrich Nietzsche • “… sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests as we should at a ball, where we did not hear the music; the dancing that we saw there would appear insane.”—Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

4. Quotes • “I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‘divine service.’”—Friedrich Nietzche • “To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.”—Agnes de Mille

5. Styles of Dance • Traditional jazz • Dancehall dance • Experimental/freestyle • Folk dance • Hip-hop dance • Disco/electronic dance • Pogo • Spiritual dance • Tribal dance

6. Development • Most likely began as a ritual. • Forms of ecstasy • Ancient Egyptian paintings • Ballet in France: 16th-17th Century • Each dance leads to the formation of another type of dance

7. Ecology • A way to feel connected to the gods/supernatural • To find a mate • Courtship dances • Expression of emotions when words cannot be formed • The desire to move the body when music is played • Change in time changed the dancers • Freedom

8. Evolution • Change in time to meet the desires of society • Mating dances have changed due to environments changing and animals adapting • More fast paced to keep up with society • Economic prosperity and social standing affected the changing of dance • Dance schools established

9. Physiology • Weight control • Improve balance and coordination • Improves posture • Psychological effects • Therapeutic outlet • Parkinson’s disease • Ballerina’s brains

10. Can Dance be Uncomfortable?

11. Fire Dance

12. Exotic Dancing • Form of artistic expression • Form of mating dance • Interaction between dancer and patron • Dancer is essentially saying, “You are desirable.” • Suffers from the stereotype that it is a prelude to prostitution • The dancer may use all five senses as part of the expression

13. Dark Matters – Crystal Pite • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRRb6otRuVg

14. “Only a preview of what can happen if we continue ignoring the source of true art in the name of the improper use of technology.”

15. Claire Cunningham • Disabled • Multi-disciplinary performer/choreographer • Her work is initially rooted in the use/misuse, study, and distortion of crutches. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AyXdpze1yg