Wigan, United Kingdom

Dance and Drama

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: arts
University website: leigh.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.
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.
Dance
On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 22.
Dance
Of what is the body made!
It is made of emptiness and rhythm.
At the ultimate heart of the body , at the heart of.
the world there is no solidity…there is only the dance.
George B.Leonard, p. 189.
Dance
For you and I are past our dancing days.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act 1, scene 5.
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