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| Classical bell tutus in The Dance Classby Degas, 1874 |
Joseph Jordania suggested that dance, together with rythmic music and body painting could be used to put groups of humans in some kind of trance so they lost their individuality in crowd and were easyer to rule.
Also the chronicle of Sri Lanka starts that when king Vijaya landed in Sri Lanka in 543 BCE he heard sounds of music and dancing from a wedding ceremony. Origins of the Sri Lanka dances are dated back to the aboriginal tribes.
Dance was also a method of healing in Brazil and other countries, and in some European countries there were some dance that was believed to protect person from dease.
Later it became method of expression in old Greace and other countries.
In 18-19 centuries Ballet was very popular.
Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance from France and Russia. It has since become a widespread, highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary. Ballet may also refer to a Ballet dance work, which consists of the choreography and music for a ballet production. A well-known example of this is "The Nutcracker", a two-act ballet that was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a music score by Pyotor Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Stylistic variations have emerged and evolved since the Italian Renaissance. Early variations are primarily associated with geographic origin. Examples of this are Russian ballet, French ballet, and Italian ballet. Later variations include contemporary ballet and neoclassical ballet. Perhaps the most widely known and performed ballet style is late Romantic ballet (or Ballet Blanc), which is a classical style that focuses on female dancers and features point work, flowing and precise acrobatic movements, and often presents the female dancers in traditional, short white French tutus.
In early 20 it went from ballet to contemporary dance.
After the explosion of modern dance in early 20 century, the 1960s saw the growth of postmodernism. Postmodernism veered towards simplicity, the beauty of small things, beauty of untrained body, and unsophisticated movement.At the same time mass culture experienced expension of street dance. In 1974, famous group Jackson 5 performed on television a dance callet "Robot". This event and later Soul Train performances by black dancers ignited street culture revolution, which later formed breack dancing rock dance.
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Street dance, formally known as vernacular dance, refers to dance styles-regarelles of country of origin- that evolved outside of dance studios in any aviable open space such as streets, dance parties, block parties, parks ,school yards, raves, and nightclubs. They are often improvisational and social in nature, encouraging interaction and contact with spectators and other dancers. These dances are a part of the vernecular culture of the geographical area that they come from.
Two examples of street dance include b-boying (or breack dancing), which originated in New York City, and Melburne Shuffle which originated in Melburne, australia.
Street dances are dances that evolve between people in a social environment, although it cannot always be determined as to how they actually do evolve between people. In theory, as one person comes up with a move that apparently looks good to another person, that other person tries to copy that move. Similar to chinese whispers , the effect is that the other person cannot absolutely perform that move the same way as the other person, thus leading to the dancer to create their own style or entirely new moves based on it. There is a small difference between entirely freestyle (improvisational) dance and an absolute street dance. While freestyle dance is random and a personal dance invented by a single person (even if it's based on someone else's dance style), a full street dance is a collection of the various similar dance moves and styles collected into one practice and regarded as the same dance. For example, when b-boying evolved out of early hip-hop culture, people came up with their own moves, and other people improved them. Street dances constantly evolve for as long as they are intermittently practiced and regarded as the same dance. All the moves danced to breaks in hip-hop culture was regarded as b-boying.
Hip-hop dance started when Clive Campbell, aka kool DJ herc and the father of hip-hop came to New-York from Jamaika in 1967. Toting the seeds of reggae from his homeland, he is credited with being the first DJ to use two turntables and idential copies of the same record to create his jams. But it was his extension of the breaks in these songs- the musical section where the percussive beats were most aggressive- that allowed him to create and name a culture of break boys and break girls who laid it down when the breaks came up. Briefly termed b-boys and b-girls, these dancers founded breakdancing, which is now a cornerstone of hip-hop dance.
Hip-hop includes style as breaking, loking and popping. created in 1970s.
Europe competitions in hip-hop: UK B-boy championship, Juste Debout and Eurobettle. australia host a team- based competition and japan two-on-two competitions.