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BalletBallet is a type of performance

dance that originated in the Italian

Renaissance courts of the 15th

century and later developed into

a concert dance form in France

and Russia. It has since become a

widespread, highly technical form

of dance with its own vocabulary

based on French terminology. It has

been globally influential and has

defined the foundational techniques

used in many other dance genres.

Ballet requires years of training to learn and master, and much practice to

retain proficiency. It has been taught in ballet schools around the world,

which have historically used their own cultures to evolve the art.

credits:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ballet

ance has certainly been an important part of ceremony, rituals,

celebrations and entertainment since before the birth of

the earliest human civilizations. Archaeology delivers

traces of dance from prehistoric times such as

the 9,000 year old Bhimbetka rock shelters paintings in India and

Egyptian tomb paintings depicting dancing figures from 3300 BC.

The ancient chronicle, the Sinhalese (Sri Lankans), the Mahavamsa

states that when King Vijaya landed in Sri Lanka in 543 BCE he

heard sounds of music and dancing from a wedding ceremony. The

origins of the dances of Sri Lanka are dated back to the aboriginal

tribes. The classical dances of Sri Lanka (Kandyan dances) feature a

highly developed system of tala (rhythm), provided by cymbals called

thalampataa. Another early use of dance may have been as a precursor

to ecstatic trance states in healing rituals. Dance is used for this purpose

by many cultures

from the Brazilian

rainforest to the Kalahari Desert.

Medieval European danses macabres were

thought to have protected participants from

disease, however the hysteria and duration of

these dances sometimes lead to death due to

exhaustion.

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Sri Lankan dances goes back to the mythological times of

aboriginal yingyang twins and “yakkas”

(devils). According to a Sinhalese

legend, Kandyan dances orig-

inate, 2500 years ago,

from a magic ritual that

broke the spell on a

bewitched king. Many contemporary dance forms can be traced

back to historical, traditional, ceremonial, and ethnic dances.

One of the earliest structured uses of dances may have been in

the performance and in the telling of myths. It was also some-

times used to show feelings for one of the opposite gender. It is

also linked to the origin of “love making.” Before the production

of written languages, dance was one of the methods of passing these

stories down from generation to generation. In European culture, one

of the earliest records of dancing is by Homer, whose “Iliad”; describes

chorea. The early Greeks made the art of dancing into a system, expressive of all

the different passions. For example, the dance of the Furies, so represented, would create

complete terror among those who witnessed them. The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, ranked dancing with

poetry, and said that certain dancers, with rhythm applied to gesture, could express manners, passions, and

actions.

Credits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Dance

Jazzazz dance is a classification shared by a broad

range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz

dance referred to dance styles that originated

from African American vernacular dance. In

the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance — modern

jazz dance — emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance.

Every individual style of jazz dance has roots traceable to one of

these two distinct origins. Jazz was a big hit in the early 50’s and it

is still a well loved style of dance all over the world. The term “Jazz”

was first applied to a style of music and dance during World War I.Jazz in a dance form, however, originates

from the vernacular dances of Africans when they were brought to the Americas on slave ships.This dance form

developed alongside jazz music in New Orleans in the early 1900s.Beginning in the 1930s and continuing through

the 1960s, Jazz dance transformed from

this vernacular form into a theatre-based

performance form of dance that required a

highly trained dancer.During this time, cho-

reographers from the modern and ballet

dance worlds experimented with the jazz

dance style.This includes choreographers

like George Balanchine,] All of these cho-

reographers influenced jazz by requiring

highly trained dancers to perform a specific

set of movements, which differed greatly

from the colloquial form of New Orleans in

the 1900s.

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credits:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jazz_dance

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