Berlin, Germany

Dance Lab: Approaches and Practice

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: arts
University website: www.berlin.bard.edu
Dance
Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement. This movement has aesthetic and symbolic value, and is acknowledged as dance by performers and observers within a particular culture. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements, or by its historical period or place of origin.
Dance
He who esteems the Virginia reel
A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal,
And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery
Than crushing His African children with slavery,
Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon
Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion,
Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows,
Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.
James Russell Lowell, Fable for Critics (1848), line 492.
Dance
Come, knit hands, and beat the ground
In a light fantastic round.
John Milton, Comus (1637), line 143.
Dance
Where dance is, there is the devil.
John Chrysostom Homily on Matt.48.3
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