Nottingham, United Kingdom

Dance

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: arts
University website: www.centralnottingham.ac.uk
Foundation of Arts (FdA)
Dance
Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement. This movement has aesthetic and symbolic value, and is acknowledged as dance by performers and observers within a particular culture. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements, or by its historical period or place of origin.
Dance
Come, knit hands, and beat the ground
In a light fantastic round.
John Milton, Comus (1637), line 143.
Dance
Where dance is, there is the devil.
John Chrysostom Homily on Matt.48.3
Dance
But O, she dances such a way!
No sun upon an Easter-day,
Is half so fine a sight.
Sir John Suckling, A Ballad Upon a Wedding, Stanza 8.
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