DANC 100 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Greek Dances, Christian Mortalism, Pierre Beauchamp
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In addition to the quiz questions, you should have some understanding of the following: Understand the role dance played in primitive societies. Swaying, stamping, and circling like children do. Hunters danced before going off to pursue game. Bring rain, good harvest, birth, puberty, marriage, and death. What is the relationship between dance and body language. Body is used to express thoughts and emotions. Patron of music, poetry, philosophy, and healing. Also associated with light of the intellect that drives away barbarism. Divine powers could induce both cheerful merriment and wildness. Worshipers were known to break loose into riotous dances. Both symbolize two types of art: notable for its serene majesty and formal balance is ofte(cid:374) (cid:272)alled (cid:862)apollo(cid:374)ia(cid:374)(cid:863) E(cid:373)otio(cid:374)al a(cid:374)d u(cid:374)restrai(cid:374)ed da(cid:374)(cid:272)i(cid:374)g is (cid:272)alled (cid:862)dio(cid:374)(cid:455)sia(cid:272)(cid:863) Greek dance was allied to both poetry and music. Early on, mortalist started to denounce dance. Had a history of dance involved with religion, however, most of their history had no dance with worshipping services.
