DANCE

DANCE AND MUSIC

• Performed together (both music and dance)
• Perform separately

DANCE STUDIES

AND TECHNIQUES

1920s

CLASSIFICATION AND GENRES

academic discipline.

EROTIC DANCE

Dance courses available

Main purpose

COMPETITIVE DANCE

Dance technique

CEREMONIAL DANCE

SOCIAL DANCE

Number of interacting dancers

PERFORMANCE DANCE

• Professional practice
• Practice research
• Ethnochoreology
• Dance therapy, or dance-movement therapy
• Dance and technology
• Laban Movement Analysis and somatic studies

PARTICIPATION DANCE

• Choreography
• Connection
• Dance moves
• Lead and follow
• Musicality
• Dance theory

PARTNER DANCE

SOLO DANCE

WHAT IS DANCE?

GROUP DANCE

• Exercise
• Human Behavior: Motion and art.
• Performing art: Hobby and recreation

DANCE COMPETITIONS

ORIGINS AND HISTORY

Competitive dance

Open competitions

• No exact time within history.
• Telling myths

Dancesport

Single-style

ACTIVITY

OCCUPATIONS

DANCE TEACHERS

DANCER

DANCESPORT COACHES

CHOREOGRAPHER

DANCE

PURPOSE

BENEFITS

• Expressing yourself.
• Have fun, enjoy.
• Socializing.
• Getting fit.

• Overcome depression
• Confidence
• Flexibility, Strength and Endurance
• Fun
• Relaxation
• Social Life
• Self-Expression
• Lose weight
• Memory
• Increase energy

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul”

Martha Graham