Dance History Flashcards
Neolithic period dances were of
Imitation Celebration Initiation Medicine Commemoration Spiritual connection
Most imitated animal
Primitive
Bird, often eagle- represents strength and communication to spirits above
Predominate dancer gender
Primitive
Make
Proof of dance was found how
Cave paintings from Paleolithic age
Period 3000bc to 400 AD where civilizations began to develops
The ancient period
Country who’s dance revolved around Apollonian dance, Dionysian dance, or pyrrhic he ,
Greece
Country who’s dance was mine pantomime and pyrrhic tradition
Rome
Secretive court dance, lion dance and Silk Road
China
First trading routes established
Silk Road
India’s traditional dance
Bharata Natyam
Teacher parallel to the gods, knowledge valued
Guru
Predominant dancer gender in ancient time
Women
Patterns of dance in ancient time
Geometrical and symmetrical
“The dance of death”
Medieval time
Danse macabre, represented seizures from the plague
Dictated artistic endeavors in medieval time
The Christian church
Why was dance frowned iphone by the church
It was physical and pleasurable
In the medieval time dance flourished where
East Baghdad, center of Islam
Period were infrastructure began, dance flourished, court system established,classes built
Renaissance
“Mother of dance” traded Italian, married off to French king
Catherine de Medici 1500s
teachers brought from Italy to France
Dance masters
French man who became king
Henri, duc d’Orleans
Leading emigrated dance master
Balthasar de beaujoyeulx late 1500s
Most expensive dance to represent the 16 provinces
Ballet de beaujoyeulx 1573
The meaning and purpose of dance
Communication
