Dance
(from French danser, perhaps from Frankish) generally
refers to movement used as a form of expression, social
interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance
setting.
Dance is also used to describe methods of non-verbal
communication (see body language) between humans or
animals (bee dance, patterns of behaviour such as a
mating dance), motion in inanimate objects (the leaves
danced in the wind), and certain musical forms or
genres.
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.
Dance can be directly participatory, social or performed for an
audience. It can also be ceremonial, competitive or
erotic. Dance movements may be without significance in
themselves, such as in ballet or European folk dance, or
have a gestural vocabulary/symbolic system as in many
Asian dances. Dance can embody or express ideas,
emotions or tell a story
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