Dance

Dance (from Old French dance, further history unknown) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression (see also body language) or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting.

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Old French - Human - Movement - Expression - Body language - Social - Spiritual - Performance

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Dance is also used to describe methods of non-verbal communication between humans or animals (bee dance, mating dance), motion in inanimate objects (the leaves danced in the wind), and certain musical forms or genres. People who dance are called dancers and the act of dance is known as dancing. An event where dancing takes place may be called a dance. Choreography is the art of making dances.

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Non-verbal communication - Human - Animal - Bee dance - Motion - Leaves - Wind - Musical form - Genre - Dancer - Choreography

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Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social, cultural, aesthetic artistic and moral constraints and range from functional movement (such as Folk dance) to codified, virtuoso techniques such as ballet. In sports, gymnastics, figure skating and synchronized swimming there are dance disciplines while Martial arts 'Kata' are often compared to dances. In 1926, William Butler Yeats wrote, in "Among School Children": How can we know the dancer from the dance?

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Social - Cultural - Aesthetic - Artistic - Moral - Folk dance - Virtuoso - Ballet - Sport - Gymnastics - Figure skating - Synchronized swimming - Martial arts - Kata

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