History of dance

• Dance has been a form of expression for thousands of years. In ancient times, people danced as ?


  part of religious worship. Their dances were prayers to gods and goddesses;
• Their dance movements requested?

  Divine help for intentions such as abundant crops or defeat the enemy.
• Through the centuries, dance was also a form of?

  communication.  A group of people sang and danced to relay their history to the younger generation. Their dances could describe success in a battle or an activity like hunting.
• What dances were popular during the middle age?

  Country Dances
• In country dances druing the middle age, what do the common people do?

  the common people danced in lines and circles.
• During the Renaissance, country dances were modified and made more formal for? and whose reign?

  corut dances that were held during the regins of monarchs including French King Louis XIV and Queen Elizabeth 1 of England
• Who writes instruction manuals for the dances they choreographed? Gave instructions and supervised the dances?


  The Dance Masters
• What is the cotillion?

  One of the dance forms in Louis XIV' seventeenth-century courty. It is dance the involves a group of eight couples.