DANC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Nataraja, One Dance
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Dance is such a big part of the cultural identity of many different countries: dance is an important part of the hindu culture; there are dancing gods in the hindu pantheon. a. 1. Shiva, god of creation and destruction is represented as. One dance even make"s a god within one"s body. : greeks danced at special events, for fertility, to express happiness, but they also knew that dancing wildly could be dangerous for the peace of the community. c. 1. In a greek myth, zeus, an olympian god, was hiding from his father who was trying to kill him. He started to cry, but dancers drowned out the noise, which kept him hidden. c. 2. Christianity rejects the body as something holy c. Judaism believes that there"s both a good kind of dance and a bad kind of dance. c. 1. Christianity believes in a love-hate relationship with the body, denying bodily desires. e. 2. Fathers decided to integrate it by redefining it and.
