. Throughout the Middle Ages, dance was an important part of both religious worship and secular recreation. Sacred and secular documents, iconographic depictions, and literary references bear witness that dance played a central role in the lives of all...

Dance in India is as diverse as the multiethnic society from which it stems. Each region, with its own language, literature, customs, costume, and cuisine, has its own dance forms, some of which are traced through wall paintings, ancient manuscripts,...

As an area of research, masculinity and dance remains under-examined, due in part to the overwhelming Western notion that men don’t dance and to the homophobic assumption that men who do dance are gay. Scholarly research has primarily utilised...

From the dancer’s perspective, which is usually shared by audience members of the dancer’s *culture, dance is human behaviour comprising purposeful, intentionally rythmical and culturally patterned sequences of non-verbal body movements....

Dance (from French danser, perhaps from Frankish) generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music,[1] used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. Dance is also used to...

Kokuma Dance Theatre play Blackfriars Arts Centre, Boston, Lincs (01205 363108) tonight; Chipping Norton Theatre, Oxon (01608 642350) 19 Mar; Gulbenkian Theatre (01227 769075) Canterbury, Kent, 21 Mar The stereotype of African dance as a bunch of performers in grass skirts capering merrily...

TIME AND THE DANCING IMAGE By Deborah Jowitt. Morrow. 431 pp. $22.95. Illustrated. In the course of "Time and the Dancing Image," Deborah Jowitt mentions a 1916 Denishawn dance extravaganza called "Life and Afterlife in Egypt, Greece and India." Jowitt's focus isn't quite...

Homeland Security: Congressional Republicans say they won't leave for the August break until gaps in surveillance law are filled. Democrats will probably vote for a rewrite, but not for the right reason.Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell is pushing the administration's position that the Foreign...

In Motion Indeed (Fred Askew) During a let-up in Saturday's cruel thunderstorms, a group of face-painted children, bubble-blowing adolescents, drum-thumping pot-bellied men and conga-lining women gathered at 79th and Fifth to protest the city's 80-year-old cabaret laws. It was a distinctly un-Manhattanish affair,...

The elements of dance are space, time, and energy. In further research, according to Karl Schaffer, Erik Stern, and Scott Kim, in terms of space, the use of the body can create shapes of many levels such as: low, medium, and high. The body can create directions, paths, and patterns.

This essay is about the benefits that would come with dance education being encorporated into a K-12 Curriculum.

Dance should be considered a sport. It takes strength and endurance, is competitive, and requires much personal time and dedication, just as recognized sports do.