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Dance (from Old French dancier, perhaps from Frankish) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting.
Dance is also used to describe methods of non-verbal communication (see body language) between humans or animals (bee dance, mating dance), motion in inanimate objects (the leaves danced in the wind), and certain musical forms or genres.
Choreography is the art of making dances, and the person who does this is called a choreographer.
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Ode To The Dancing Feet
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:31:09 -0800
"The foot is at the root of poetry. Lines of verse are divided into feet, and that's because words, music and dance were once intimately connected. And in terms of physical complexity, the foot is among the most miraculous mechanisms of the body."...
Time To Retire Nutcracker?
Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:07:58 -0800
"Ballet gets this image of wholesome, reassuring, pretty -- not that those are bad things, but that's a stamp that's been placed on ballet because of the relentlessness of The Nutcracker."...
New York City Ballet In Two Places At Once
Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:25:07 -0800
"Forty of the company's 93 dancers - including 20 of its 30 principals - are onstage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, giving seven performances of two mixed bills. Meanwhile, their colleagues are dancing more traditional December fare back at home at Lincoln Center" - Balanchine's Nutcracker, of course....
Sylvie Guillem On Being 'Mademoiselle Non'
Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:17:06 -0800
"I've always said that my luck is that I never dreamt of being a ballerina, … [and] the only thing that drives me is the pleasure on stage, and what I could do there, what kind of experience I can have there and what I could feel. So if people were trying to make me do things that I wasn't really happy to do, then there was no way I was going to do it. … I'm not going to waste my time."...
Akram Khan Speaks: 'My Body Is My Voice"
Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:56:14 -0800
"From Bangladeshi folk dance to the moves of Michael Jackson, [the star British dancer/choreographer] describes how he finds clarity within chaos."...
PETA To Pounce On Kids At Pa. Ballet's Nutcracker
Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:14:18 -0800
"PETA is planning to hand out anti-fur stickers to children waiting to see the Pennsylvania Ballet's staging of The Nutcracker at the Academy of Music on Saturday afternoon. The stickers ... will be attached to leaflets explaining how animals suffer because of the fur, leather, and exotic-skins trade."...
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Ode To The Dancing Feet
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:31:09 -0800
"The foot is at the root of poetry. Lines of verse are divided into feet, and that's because words, music and dance were once intimately connected. And in terms of physical complexity, the foot is among the most miraculous mechanisms of the body."...
Time To Retire Nutcracker?
Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:07:58 -0800
"Ballet gets this image of wholesome, reassuring, pretty -- not that those are bad things, but that's a stamp that's been placed on ballet because of the relentlessness of The Nutcracker."...
New York City Ballet In Two Places At Once
Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:25:07 -0800
"Forty of the company's 93 dancers - including 20 of its 30 principals - are onstage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, giving seven performances of two mixed bills. Meanwhile, their colleagues are dancing more traditional December fare back at home at Lincoln Center" - Balanchine's Nutcracker, of course....
Sylvie Guillem On Being 'Mademoiselle Non'
Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:17:06 -0800
"I've always said that my luck is that I never dreamt of being a ballerina, … [and] the only thing that drives me is the pleasure on stage, and what I could do there, what kind of experience I can have there and what I could feel. So if people were trying to make me do things that I wasn't really happy to do, then there was no way I was going to do it. … I'm not going to waste my time."...
Akram Khan Speaks: 'My Body Is My Voice"
Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:56:14 -0800
"From Bangladeshi folk dance to the moves of Michael Jackson, [the star British dancer/choreographer] describes how he finds clarity within chaos."...
PETA To Pounce On Kids At Pa. Ballet's Nutcracker
Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:14:18 -0800
"PETA is planning to hand out anti-fur stickers to children waiting to see the Pennsylvania Ballet's staging of The Nutcracker at the Academy of Music on Saturday afternoon. The stickers ... will be attached to leaflets explaining how animals suffer because of the fur, leather, and exotic-skins trade."...
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