Dance 45

L-Paleolithic & Neolithic
Sympathetic Magic
Image and reality are believed to be the same

Cradle of Western Civilization Mesopotamia
Sumeria, 5,500 years ago
Invented the:
Wheel
Writing
Bronze
Useful for weapons, statues
60 seconds & 60 min
13th months & Zodiac
Laws that protect underprivileged

Sumerians influenced
Hebrews
Egyptians
Greeks

AncientCultures- Hebrews
One god forgiving
Nomadic
Music communicates to God
12 different verbs for dance
they danced for:
religious
joyous
celebration
weddings
the dancing occurs after the ceremony
circle
a man is not supposed to touch a woman when she’s menstruating while dancing

Egypt
Pharaohs were consider to be divine
Writing, paper
Nile River rises & fallsImmortality
Tombs for pharaohs
Their dance was:
Religious
Funerals

Acrobatics
Wall paintings & relief
Profile
Tombs
Mourning acrobats are only on paintings
They didn’t publically danced, hired trained dancers
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* Ancient Cultures Crete influence Greek
Supreme earth goddess (Cretan dancer)
Used snakes to worship her
Dance magic circle
Cretan Dancer
Dances in a circleholding hands with other women
Greek Dance
Private Y communal
Religion & education
Military training
Entertainment Y theater
Well-bred Citizen
Sparta
War-like
Military Training
8,000 Citizens out of 400,000
Athens
Culture & Arts
115,000 Slaves out of 315,000

Myths into Dance
Zeus & Protectors
Pyrrhic War Dance
A war dance giving by Zeus
Minotaur(geranos 6th C BCE)
Sparta Fertility Dance
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* Plato & Dance Laws
God & muse Terpsichore
NOBLE Forms
Emmeleia, peace, Apollo
Pyrrhic, War, Zeus
IGNOBLE
Kordax
Comic
Teach children dance rules
How to follow rules

Greek Animal Dances
Horsemen’s dance
Relationship to the term horseplay
Not a serious dance
Bird DANCE
Swift, soaring grace
Masked Bull DanceVigorous

God Dionysus & Dance
Wine, fertility, sexual ecstasy
Dance wild & frenzied
Cults
Maenads
City-fathers seek to control
Dithramb
Competition of dance, poetry
Thespis 535 BCE, comes forward and speaks alone( 1st actor) = Greek theater
Drama—Tragedy & comedy
Greek Chorus
Noble dance Emmeleia
Gesture
Set dance phrases
Underscored or reacted to tragicVerse of drama

Kordax Dance
Greek comedy
Developed after Tragedy
Comic dance
Lewd
Leather
Plato hated
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* Ancient Cultures Roman
Expansionist
Conquer
Steal their culture
Take from other cultures
Roman Dance
Degenerates
Violence
Spectacle
Slaves, acrobats,, jugglers
Popular entertainment
Roman Pantomime
It did not speak because of the too manylanguages
Gestures & cloak instead
Tell story
Different characters
Emperor Nero

Ancient Cultures
Estruscans Y dance
Vigorous Culture
Italian Peninsula
20 tombs with dance Scenes

roman empire was very anti-christian
fail of the roman empires= rise of the catholic church
catholic was very anti roman empire
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* Dark Ages
rise of Roman Catholic Church
holidaysMatch Pagan Festivals
catholic church is anti-pagan
catholic church anti-Roman Empire
anti-dance
End of the World Coming
Prepare for Spiritual Afterlife
Cleanse soul, deprive body
Public flagellation

Dark Ages & Dance
Anti-dance
Dancing feels good
St. Augustine says
Dance moral poisoning

Medieval Middle Ages 10th—15th Century
Time of king Arthur
World hasn’tended
Medieval & Dance
Angels in heaven
Religious plays
Miracle, mystery, morality
Public entertainment
Peasants
Courts rise of middle class
Dance becomes
Pageantry, tournaments
Hygienic
Dance of death
Dance Mania

Religious Plays
Miracle, mystery, morality
Stories bible & saints
Devil comic fool
Performed within church

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