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Across the ages and in
all countries of the world, people have been expressing their feeling and
personality by utilizing diverse vehicles: painting, music, sport, and so on.
As time passed, human's behaviors recorded in many objects or passed down
orally; it was a rudiment of the common principle of thought, culture, which
people who live in jointly are likely to have. Some people may think what
dancing plays a role in culture is so trivial as it compares with other
factors' that it is required scrutinizing to find contributions of dancing
towards culture, but my opinion contradicts theirs. Although its history was
not able to be recorded by video until the advent of image recording
technology, the fact that dancing acted as an expression piping of feeling
and had significant impacts on other areas of culture cannot be underestimated.
First of all, dance is a kind of art
that expresses something through the body. It is also used as a means of social
interaction or expression. In terms of an artistic point of view, dancing is a
performing art that expresses aesthetic sentiments in rhythm with the body and
has used for nonverbal communication between people. For example, Capoeira, one
of the art forms of African Brazilians, was crated as a means of enhancing
their physical performance against the eyes of its owners by those who had been
enslaved in the African country. The dance has been shaped by combining martial
arts and music because of the continuous efforts of the slaves, which has
allowed them to relieve their resentment and train their bodies from unfair
circumstances. This, combined with current music, has become a representative
art of Brazilians, so it can be said to have had a profound impact on their
culture.
On top of that, dance is becoming
increasingly popular as a new communication medium to boost the public's
socialization and restore lost humanity through comprehensive links to other
arts, and to revive spiritual dialogue between person and person vividly. It
can also be seen as having a significant impact on society since subsidiary
factors produced by dance are utilized in other athletic competitions.
Tchaikovsky's ballet music, for instance, Swan Lake was composed for ballet
purposes, but it is loved by many people in contemporary times as well as
program music such as figure skating and rhythmic gymnastics. All things
considered, the impact of dance on modern society culture is not smaller than
other factors of culture.
All in all, it is not able to be denied
that dance is an important factor in a culture for the reasons I have mentioned
above. Contemplating the expressive power, and popularization of dance, it is
easy to see that dance has a considerable ripple effect on culture. |