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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 also is 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 genres.
Choreography is the art of making dances.
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. Dance disciplines exist in sports such as gymnastics, figure skating, and synchronized swimming, and martial arts kata are often compared to dance.
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Ballroom dance, refers collectively to a set of partner dances, which originated in the Western world and are now enjoyed both socially and competitively around the globe. Its performance and entertainment aspects are also widely enjoyed on stage, in film, and on television.
While historically ballroom dance may refer to any form of formal social dancing as recreation, with the eminence of dancesport in modern times the term has become much narrower in scope, usually referring specifically to the International Standard and International Latin style dances (see dance groupings below). In the United States, two additional variations—"American Smooth" and "American Rhythm"—have also been popularized and are commonly recognized as styles of "ballroom dance".
The term "ballroom dancing" is derived from the word ball, which in turn originates from the Latin word ballare which means "to dance". In times past, ballroom dancing was "social dancing" for the privileged, leaving "folk dancing" for the lower classes. These boundaries have since become blurred, and it should be noted even in times long gone, many "ballroom" dances were really elevated folk dances.
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A ballet tutu is a skirt worn as a costume in a ballet performance, often with attached bodice. It might be single layer, hanging down, or multiple layers starched and strutting out. Tutus were often cherished as costumes, for the tanning makeup people used to wear was forbidden to touch the costumes. Ballet Ports de Bras arm movements were modified to not touch the elegant costumes.
Did you know
... that Rolf de Maré was a Swedish art collector who in 1933 created the world's first museum and research institute for dance?
... that the first performance of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, in 1958, was held at New York's 92nd Street Young Men's Hebrew Association?
... the Ländler dance that Maria and the Captain shared in the musical The Sound of Music is not really traditional?
... during the production of Sylvia, the score was constantly under construction by Delibes, often with the aid of lead dancers Louis Mérante and Rita Sangalli?
... the Baltic Song and Dance Celebrations are Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity?
...that the score of Giselle contains additions by Léon Minkus?
...that the Mark Morris Dance Group derives its name from the fact that Mark Morris never wanted a formal company but instead simply gathered a group of his colleageus and peers and, on November 28, 1980, put on a show of his works at the Merce Cunningham Studios in Greenwich Village, New York City?
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Marius Petipa (born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa on 11 March 1818 in Marseille, Kingdom of France) was a ballet dancer, teacher, and choreographer. His mother was an actress and drama teacher, while his father was a ballet master and teacher.
Petipa is noted for his long career as Premier Maître de Ballet of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, a position he held from 1871 until 1903. He created over fifty ballets, some of which have survived in versions either faithful to, inspired by, or reconstructed from the original: The Pharaoh's Daughter (1862); Don Quixote (1869); La Bayadère (1877); Le Talisman (1889); The Sleeping Beauty (1890); etc.
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2011
- 25 August Julie McDonald (new article)
- 06 April Guillermo Keys-Arenas (new article)
2010
- 10 November Flexing (new article)
- 31 October Turn (dance and gymnastics) (new article)
- 01 August Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo (major rewrite)
- 11 July History of hip-hop dance (new article)
2009
- 29 October Krumping (major rewrite)
- 29 October Salah (major rewrite)
- 19 September Shobana Jeyasingh (new article)
- 09 September B-boy (major rewrite)
- 09 September B-boying (major rewrite)
- 03 August Hip-hop dance (major rewrite)
- 02 July Fanny Pak (new article)
- 02 July Dave Scott (new article)
- 08 June Siobhan Davies (choreographic style)
- 29 March Pointe shoes (major rewrite)
2008
- 13 October The Moor's Pavane (José Limón's 1949 ballet)
- 13 October A Midsummer Night's Dream (Balanchine's first complete full-length ballet, 1962)
- 09 August Australian Dance Awards
- 29 March Concert dance (merge material from Dance Theatre)
- 21 March Australian Choreographic Ensemble
- 14 March Margaret Morris (dancer)
- 10 March Garry Stewart
- 24 February Health risks of professional dance (based on "Risks of classical ballet")
- 10 February History of ballet split from Ballet
- 10 February Ballet heavy copy edit
- 29 January List of dance companies (create table)
- 17 January Acro dance
2007
- 30 December Ulyana Lopatkina (major upgrade)
- 30 December Galina Mezentseva (new)
- 28 December Susanne Linke (from the German WP article)
- 30 August Dance Notation Bureau
- 31 July Marianela Núñez
- 03 June The Forsythe Company
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