DANCE 45 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ginger Rogers, Social Dance
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Dancing: sex and social dance- pleasure, rites of passage, social skills, gender roles, tradition, change. Ballroom- european aesthetic: medieval and renaissance, secular social dance, mainly in groups and secular, 19th century waltz. 1st no lead, then the man for safety (dizziness: euro aesthetic: back erect, steps coupled, courtship, movement in relationship (clearly defined roles, fred astaire & ginger rogers made 10 movies and didn"t kiss once, dance said everything. Judeo- christian wedding tradition: secular- dance @ reception v. sacred- ceremony in church, couple dances 1st, rules for man and woman, walter schalk school canaan, ct, western culture filmed waltz to feel better during the depression. Intimacy highly regulated by the ballroom: only danced in your social class.
