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Xpression

• By Sandy Gibson
• Debra Chester
• ITEC 2120

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History of Dance

• Dance (from French danier) generally refers to
  movement used as a form of expression, social
  interaction or presented in a spiritual or
  performance setting.
• The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, ranked dancing
  with poetry, and said that certain dancers, with
  rhythm applied to gesture, could express manners,
  passions, and actions.
• Dance is also used to describe methods of
  non-verbal communication inanimate(see body
  language) between humans or animals (bee dance,
  patterns of behavior such as a mating dance),
  motion in objects (the leaves danced in the
  wind), and certain musical forms or genres.

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What is Dance?

• 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
  virtuoso techniques such as ballet. In sports,
  gymnastics, figure skating and synchronized
  swimming are dance disciplines while Martial arts
  'kata' are often compared to dances.

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Something for Everyone

• There are many kinds of dance. It can be a
  popular craze, like break dancing, or ballets. It
  can be folk dances that have been handed down
  through generations, such as the square dance, or
  ethnic dances that are primarily associated with
  a particular country. It can be modern dance or
  musical comedy dancing, both fields that were
  pioneered by American men and women.

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Social Dancing

• As known today, social dancing is an activity
  that can be traced back to three sources the
  courts of Europe, international society, and
  primitive cultures. Among noblemen and women of
  16th- and 17th-century Europe, ballroom dancing
  was a popular diversion. After the political
  upheavals of the 18th and 19th centuries, dances
  once performed by the aristocracy alone became
  popular among ordinary people as well.
• http//video.google.com/videoplay?docid6160159721
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Some forms of Social Dance The Waltz

• None of these dances grew more popular than the
  waltz, which was first introduced to the Austrian
  court in the 17th century. Its gliding, whirling
  movements immediately became the rage throughout
  the entire population.
• By the late 18th century waltzing was common in
  the cosmopolitan cities of London and Paris.
  People felt the same spirit in the dance that
  they perceived in the great political events of
  the day--the French and the American revolutions.

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The Waltz

• Waltz from the old German word walzen to roll,
  turn, or to glide.
• Waltz a ballroom dance in 3/4 time with strong
  accent on the first beat and a basic pattern of
  step-step-close.

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Polka History

• The polka was originally a Czech peasant dance,
  developed in Eastern Bohemia (now part of
  Czechoslovakia). Bohemian historians believe that
  the polka was invented by a peasant girl (Anna
  Slezak, in Labska Tynice in 1834) one Sunday for
  her amusement. It was composed to a folk song
  "Strycek Nimra Koupil Simla (Uncle Nimra brought
  a white horse)." Anna called the step "Madera"
  because of its quickness and liveliness.
• The dance was first introduced into the ballrooms
  of Prague in 1835. The name of the dance (pulka)
  is Czech for "half-step", referring to the rapid
  shift from one foot to the other

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Polka

• Polka is defined as a vivacious couple dance of
  Bohemian origin in duple time was a basic pattern
  of hop-step-close-step a lively Bohemian dance
  tune in 2/4 time.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vYa5lsWwZkng

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Tango History

• Tango (the dance with the stop "Baille Con
  Carte") is one of the most fascinating of all
  dances. Originating in Spain or Morocco, the
  Tango was introduced to the New World by the
  Spanish settlers, eventually coming back to Spain
  with Black and Creole influences.
• In the early 19th Century, the Tango was a solo
  dance performed by the woman. The Adualisian
  Tango was later done by one or two couples
  walking together using castanets. The dance was
  soon considered immoral with its flirting music
• The dance spread throughout Europe in the 1900's.
  Originally popularized in New York in the winter
  of 1910-1911, Rudolph Valentino then made the
  Tango a hit in 1921.

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TANGO

• Phrasing is an important part of Tango. Most
  Tango music phrased to 16 or 32 beats of music.
  Tango music is like a story. It contains
  paragraphs (Major phrases) sentences (Minor
  phrases) and the period at the end of the
  sentence is the Tango close.

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Cha Cha History

• Originally known as the Cha-Cha-Cha. Became
  popular about 1954. Cha Cha is an offshoot of the
  Mambo. In the slow Mambo tempo, there was a
  distinct sound in the music that people began
  dancing to, calling the step the "Triple" Mambo.
  Eventually it evolved into a separate dance,
  known today as the Cha Cha.

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CHA CHA

• The dance consists of three quick steps (triple
  step or cha cha cha) and two slower steps on the
  one beat and two beat.

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Foxtrot History

• The Foxtrot originated in the summer of 1914 by
  Vaudeville actor Harry Fox. Born Arthur
  Carringford in Pomona, California, in 1882, he
  adopted the stage name of "Fox" after his
  grandfather.

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FOXTROT

• The Foxtrot was the most significant development
  in all of ballroom dancing. The combination of
  quick and slow steps permits more flexibility and
  gives much greater dancing pleasure than the
  one-step and two-step which it has replaced.
  There is more variety in the fox-trot than in any
  other dance, and in some ways it is the hardest
  dance to learn!Variations of the foxtrot include
  the Peabody, the Quickstep and Roseland foxtrot.
  Even dances such as the lindy and the hustle are
  derived to some extent from the foxtrot.

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SALSA

• Salsa is not easily defined. Who invented salsa?
  The Cubans, Puerto Ricans? Salsa is a
  distillation of many Latin and Afro-Caribbean
  dances. Each played a large part in its
  evolution.

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Swing History

• The history of swing dates back to the 1920's,
  where the black community, while dancing to
  contemporary Jazz music, discovered the
  Charleston and the Lindy Hop.

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SWING

• As the music changed between the 1920's and
  1990's, (Jazz, Swing, Bop, Rock 'n' Roll, Rhythm
  Blues, Disco, Country), the Lindy Hop,
  Jitterbug, Lindy, and Swing evolved across the
  U.S. with many regional styles. The late 1940's
  brought forth many dances that evolved from
  Rhythm Blues music the Houston Push and Dallas
  whip (Texas), the Imperial Swing (St. Louis), the
  D.C. Hand Dancing (Washington), and the Carolina
  Shag (Carolinas and Norfolk) were just a few.

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Just a swingin
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Hip-Hop History

• Hip hop dance refers to dance styles, mainly
  street dance styles, primarily danced to hip hop
  music, or that have evolved as a part of the hip
  hop culture.The first and original dance
  associated with hip hop is break-dance, which
  appeared in New York City during the early 1970s
  and truly became a cornerstone (also called
  "element") of hip hop as a culture.
• Old school hip hop dances are those styles that
  evolved in the 1970s and 1980s and were primarily
  danced to funk and old school hip hop music.
  Break-dance is the best known of all hip hop
  dance styles, and is considered a corner stone of
  hip hop culture itself. In the 1980s, many funk
  dance styles that originally evolved separately
  from hip hop, such as popping and locking,
  started to be incorporated with the hip hop
  culture as well, and could be seen combined with
  break-dance.

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HIP HOP

• In the 1990s, as hip hop music evolved and grew
  further away from funk, it got slower, heavier
  and more aggressive. This modern hip hop music
  has given birth to new styles of hip hop dancing
  partly inspired by the old school styles, many of
  them focusing on upright dancing as opposed to
  break-dance which is better known for its
  floor-oriented movements.
• Some more specific styles of new school hip hop
  are krumping, harlem shake, snap dance, clown
  walk, grinding, and hyphy .

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HIP HOP
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