Elements Of Dance

After reading lectures on tribal dance and rituals, I learned many interesting things I had never had before. I have never participated in dance classes before and I have not learned much about dance at grammar schools and high schools and I do not know anything about important and influential rituals in society. Dance is an activity dating back to the stone age when people first existed on the earth. Not only that, ritual dance can be found in almost every culture today.

Time: One of the three elements of dance. About the rhythm of dance and duration and rhythm of movement. Time goes whether people are stationary or moving. I feel time through natural rhythms such as heartbeat and breathing pattern. Using time to make a rhythm, we turn our attention to that rhythm. Freeze: This command stops all movements immediately and continues to move the shape of the body when directed. Pattern: Symbol or pattern with motion. Rhythm: Regular recurrence of similar features in synthesis. The rhythm of movement is defined as both with meter and without meter. Meter: Unit or unit of poetry by metric method. Metric rhythm: I have countless beats. Non metric rhythm: sometimes from nature (called wind, ocean, smoke, rain, bird), from things (popcorn, feather flight, ball, balloon), or from our own breathing rhythm Sneezing, yawn, blinking, stretching) Choreographer: Person who made dance

Dancer and choreographer Catherine Dunham (1910? -) is known as the mother of African-American dance. She is best known for fusing traditional Caribbean elements with contemporary African American rhythm and dance forms. Danum is also a famous activist who did 47 days hunger strike in 1992 to protest the US policy against Haitian refugees. Black Entertainment Television (BET) is a cable television network aimed at providing entertainment for African Americans. In 1999, programmers announced the creation of Internet sites for the network. BET.com was launched to attract more African Americans to the World Wide Web. Robert Johnson, founder and chief executive officer of BET, says: "BET.com is designed to deal with the way that African Americans become part of the Internet-generated economic engine.