Saturday, 8 March 2014

Dancing: psychosocial consequences


Dancing: psychosocial consequences

Dance has always been an essential element of human life. In all ages and all over the world, it has accompanied all of the great personal and social moments in a person's life: births, deaths, marriages, harvests, and the changing seasons. It has been the vehicle of several states of mind, as the exaltation of victory in a war or falling in love. In funeral services it has been a representation of mourning; in religious services, a representation of divine contact.

However, that which dance emphasizes in mankind, is its deep psychological meaning that has a sort of universality and timelessness in purposes and expressive forms, but, at the same time, is influenced by historical ages and those particular cultures in which it was born.  Continue...

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