Dancing With Carri Fox
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Classes Of 2007
Dance does not
leave behind clearly identifiable physical artifacts such as stone
tools, hunting implements or cave painting. It is not possible to say
when dance became part of human culture. Dance has certainly been an
important part of ceremony, rituals, celebrations and entertainment
since before the birth of the earliest human civilizations. Archeology
delivers traces of dance from prehistoric times such as Egyptian tomb
paintings depicting dancing figures from circa 3300 BC and the Rock
Shelters of Bhimbetka paintings in India.
One of the earliest structured uses of dance may have been in the
performance and telling of myths. Before the introduction of written
languages, dance was one of the methods of passing these stories down
from generation to generation. [1]
Another early use of dance may have been as a precursor to ecstatic
trance states in healing rituals. Dance is still used for this purpose
by cultures from the Brazilian rainforest to the Kalahari Desert.[2]
Sri Lankan dances goes back to the mythological times of aboriginal
yingyang twins and "yakkas" (devils). According to a Sinhalese legend,
Kandyan dances originate, 2500 years ago, from a magic ritual that broke
the spell on a bewitched king. Many contemporary dance forms can be
traced back to historical, traditional, ceremonial, and ethnic dances.
Let The Dancing Begin
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