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Dance Studies: Choreographing Dance and Life (Worth)

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Any survey of dance studies should begin with the question: What is dance? Dance is more than movement. “Dance is a transient mode of expression, performed in a given form and style by the human body moving in space. Dance occurs through purposefully selected and controlled rhythmic movements; the resulting phenomenon is recognized as dance by both the performer and the observing members of a given group” (Keali’inohomoku, 1983). This book will survey many dance forms from around the world. But why study dance at all?

Thumbnail: Dancer: Sydney Smrzel. (Unsplash License; David Hofmann via Unsplash)


This page titled Dance Studies: Choreographing Dance and Life (Worth) is shared under a CC BY 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Debra Worth.

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