Dance History

Subject	Date Published	Contributer	Language	Total Questions	File Name
History	14th February 2009	Julie Jay	USA	73	wbe31.zip

accent	Emphasis on a beat
Apocrypha	Collection of early Jewish writings excluded from the canon of the Hebrew scriptures
Aristotle	Who said dance was a moral training and was used to purge a youth's soul of undesirable emotions
Asceticism	Belief that someone is more righteous when they torture themself
asymmetry	Subjects, tension and excitement
bound energy	Energy in the body that is not being released
Carole	A dance that peasants did outside of courts
celebration and worship	What was the status of dance in Hebrew culture?
collapsive energy	Sudden release of energy
Crete	Greek island where the earliest forms of Greek dancing were found
Curetes	Dance that was first done to cover the sound of the crying baby Zeus so his father Cronos would not kill him (it was his mother Rhia's idea)
Dance Macabre	Belief that the dead themselves liked to dance in church yards and cemeteries. The dead attempted to entice the living into ranks of their ghostly dancing but those who danced with them would die in a year
Dance of Death	Dance where death was the leader and took anyone who would come
Danceomania	Dance where people were stricken with madness until they died
Dancing Devils	Dancers who kept the audience entertained during scene changes
design	Can be symmetric or asymmetric
Direction	Where dancers are moving
Egypt	Which society was the first to full record dance?
Egyptian dance categories	Religious worship funeral dances entertainment
Egyptian Funeral Procession	A man dressed like and with a mask like the dead danced in front of the hearse