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== History == | == History == | ||
People have always danced. Every society has its own dances. There are pictures, on [[pottery]] and [[stone]], which show dances from several thousand years ago, in [[Egypt]] and [[Greece]].<ref name="Sachs">Sachs, Curt 1937. ''The world history of the dance''. Norton, N.Y. <sup>Chapter5</sup> </ref> | People have always danced. Every society has its own dances. There are pictures, on [[pottery]] and [[stone]], which show dances from several thousand years ago, in [[Egypt]] and [[Greece]].<ref name="Sachs">Sachs, Curt 1937. ''The world history of the dance''. Norton, N.Y. <sup>Chapter5</sup></ref> | ||
Sachs divides early dances into 'Imageless dances' and 'Image dances'. By 'imageless dances' he meant dances which have no set form, but aim at getting the dancers into a state of [[Ecstasy (emotion)|ecstasy]]. In this state the dancer(s) seem changed, in a [[trance]], and are often thought of (by their society) as being 'possessed by [[spirit]]s'. These dances are done on certain occasions: marriage, war, famine, illness or death, and so on. They are found in all early ('primitive') societies.<ref name=Sachs/><sup>p49; 62</sup> | Sachs divides early dances into 'Imageless dances' and 'Image dances'. By 'imageless dances' he meant dances which have no set form, but aim at getting the dancers into a state of [[Ecstasy (emotion)|ecstasy]]. In this state the dancer(s) seem changed, in a [[trance]], and are often thought of (by their society) as being 'possessed by [[spirit]]s'. These dances are done on certain occasions: marriage, war, famine, illness or death, and so on. They are found in all early ('primitive') societies.<ref name=Sachs/><sup>p49; 62</sup> | ||