Knowra Dance Dance Dance is an art that organizes bodily movement in time and space, often with music. It can communicate ideas, tell stories, express feeling, or exist as movement for its own sake.
Choreography : The composition and arrangement of movement in dance or other performance. It gives dance its designed sequence, structure, and movement vocabulary.
Ballet : A formal theatrical dance tradition with codified technique and a repertory of steps. It is a highly structured performance tradition within dance.
Ancient Greek dance : Dance practices in ancient Greece, including movement in drama, worship, and civic life. Greek sources document dance as part of public and religious culture.
Music : An art form that organizes sound through elements such as rhythm, melody, and timbre. Dance often responds to music, but can also proceed without it.
Rhythm : The patterned organization of sound, movement, or events through time. Dancers shape movement through pulses, accents, and durations.
Ballroom dance : A family of partnered dances performed socially and competitively, including waltz and tango. It shows how dance can coordinate partners within shared forms.
Court dance : Dance cultivated at royal and aristocratic courts for ceremony, display, and entertainment. Court patronage helped shape formal dance traditions and professional performance.
Mime : A performance art that uses gesture and bodily action to communicate without spoken words. Mime emphasizes representation and narrative gesture more than patterned movement.
Kinesics : The study of bodily movement as communication, especially gesture and posture. It frames dance as expressive movement that can carry social meaning.
Folk dance : A community dance tradition transmitted across generations and associated with a cultural group. It connects movement forms to shared community identity and practice.
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