World History of the Dance / Spring 2024

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-dancing-just-feel-good-or-did-it-help-early-humans-survive/     1  Dance is not Only a Ritual  Anna Maria Davis Throughout this semester, we have learned as a class the importance of history and its evolution with dance. There have been many historical time periods that represent various dances each highlighting the culture of that civilization at the time. Dance requires one to have a very open mind towards trying new moves and techniques. During the semester, I had trouble with some dances over others as some were more difficult to learn. Nonetheless, all techniques were unique in their own way. Dance is not only a ritual, but a unification and social aspect of our society.  In our class, we even started at the point of Hominims, which were the first people with dexterous fingers. The Neolithic era came after showing the domestication of plants, and animals. The point of the Middle Ages is that the Roman Em