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Chapter 10: DANCE

Music & Dance 3.2 Dance Music & Dance Dance is usually considered the first art in the cultivation of culture among all civilisations and may have something to do with the possibility that dance expresses and refines the emotional life of the dancer. Dances of celebration are associated with weddings around the world, often with precise movements and precise sections that seem to have an ancient pretext associated with fertility and the joy of love.   Some dance simply celebrates the joy of life, as in the Nrityagram performance, which reveals an elevation of spirit that interprets an inner life of absolute delight. Social dances not only interpret the inner life of feeling, but at times they can both produce an inner life of feeling in us and control that feeling.   Dance—moving bodies shaping space—shares common ground with kinetic sculpture.   In abstract dance, the centre of interest is upon visual patterns, and thus there is common ground with abstract pai...