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Ghost dance

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Members if tribes came together and danced in a circle. Bullets can’t hurt the men in the white shirts

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What is elements of dance?

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Body, action, time, space, energy

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Powwow

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Informal intertribal gatherings-recast into dance competitions

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Trance dance

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Ancestors possessed your body through dance

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Mbende/jerusarema

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Zezuru dance with characteristic wit- mouse runs fast

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Bharata natyam

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A solo dance for female dancer- performed in Hindu temples

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Shiva

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Dancing god in Hindu pantheon- cosmic dance

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Mandala

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Pullavas created a painting on the floor of a mandala- snakes

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Natya shastra

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A treatise that described and analyzes techniques- Indian dance

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Kathakli

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India dance- shows how dance and religion intersect with Indian life

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Plato and dance

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Performers pretend to feel emotion and show it in their dance

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Dionysus

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Did violence to members of families because of dance

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Engungun

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Spirits of ancestors take over body and dance

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Aladura church

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Nigerian Christians who practice a form of worship in these

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Dance mania

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In Europe outbreaks of dance, foaming at mouth - bad bread

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Asante tribe/ ashantehene

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Ballet focused, Asante dance to feel alive. The king is expected to dance for his people

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Catherine de Medici

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The classical and elaborate court spectacles, with how to produce them

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Louis XIV

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Came up with ballet

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Ballet comique de la reine

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Standard for all ballets, staged for a royal wedding

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Ballet de la nuit

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Performed at court during carnival season in feb 1653

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Bedoyo

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Each court had evolved it’s own versions of the classic Javanese court dance, the sublimely tranquil

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Bugaku

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Dance in japan- worlds oldest continuing tradition

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Ameno-uzume

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Japan- Amaterasu shut up in a cave and to lure her out the women danced

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Classical dance theater

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Time consuming. Spectators, emotional, large theater

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Ballet

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Classical form of dance like the kabuki

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Kabuki

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Explores the conflicts that arise between desire and duty in a convention bound society

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Onnagata

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A performer who specializes in a women’s role- japan

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“White ballets”

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Referring to the tights and white gauze dancers wore In 1810

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Marius Petipa

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Took over at. Petersburg ballet in 1869

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Nautch

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Dancing girls (9)

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Terpsichore

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Muse for dance

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Syncretism

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Combining contradicting beliefs

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Court dance

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Western European dance

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Court ballet

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Italy and France and when it moved into a theater

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Shosagoto

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A type of kabuki dance performed by Onnagata

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