Dance is an art that refers to body movement in a rhythmic manner and to music. It is normally used as form of expression, interaction, or presented in spiritual or performance setting. Dance can be used as a method of communication between people or animal’s description of what constitutes dance depends on social, cultural, aesthetic and moral constraints.
Dancing has undergone evolution and many dancing styles have been realized, (David 1978). Krumping and break dancing misrelated to hip pop culture. African dance normally have a meaning in them.All dancing styles have got one thing in common; it not only involves body motion and flexibility, but it also includes physics.
Dancing without putting proper physics into consideration can easily leads to injuries, (Anthony 1991). Country dance is a form of social folk dance with the earliest instances documented. Some sources indicate that Queen Elizabeth was entertained by country dancing. Some Terms Used in Country Dance. Active couple.
This a couple doing more complicated movement during the dance composed of many couples.Arm right (or arm left). This where couples join arms together as they move forward and returning to the starting positions. Back to back.
Here a person, facing another person move forward passing right shoulder and fall back to place passing left. Circular hey. This is where the dancers face partners and pass right and left as they alter a specified number of changes. This is normally done without hands and it can also be played by more than two couples with alternate facing and moving in opposite directions to their starting points.Corner.
this is done in a two couple set, the dancer diagonally opposite. That is, first woman and the second man, first man and the second woman. Mad Robin. Here you keep eye to eye contact with your neighbor so that your back faces your neighbor’s back. The man takes a step forward and then slight to the right passing in front of his neighbor, then steps backwards and slides left behind his neighbor.
At the same time the woman takes one step backwards then slide to the left behind her neighbor.The use of arms was most common in barogue dance. One arm is held sideways at the hip level while the other arm is circled upward and inward from the elbow. The circling arm is moved in opposite direction to the forward foot. When the weight is shifted so as to use the opposite arm, the circling arm returns to hip level, while the other arm is circled upwards.
Once in a while, the circling arm is rotated outwards. It is worth to note that the past dance clothing was different.The people had particular clothes designed for social dancing; furthermore women were restricted by corset and long dress, (John 1988). But today we choose what to wear for dance without any restriction. Clothing had great influence on the dance style. For instance the upright look of a dancer could have been due to the costumes.
The other main difference between country dance and noble dance is that in the past the dance was mainly done by couples but today this is not the case, instead the dance even the ones for couples is performed by anyone.
