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In this paper, the premise of the polka dance is founded through the historical and technical aspects of the dance that originated in central Europe in the 19th century. The unison of the male/female interaction of the dance involves a set of foot steps and interaction with partners, which provides a deeper senses of cultural unity in its circular patterns. The use of the dance in rural communities in the19th century reveal the way that it is still used to bring together a sense of cultural unity, even in the modern era.

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Tags:dance, polka, europe

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This paper is about dance movement therapy as a form of expressive art therapies. The paper focuses on how dance therapy is about the release of emotional trauma or beliefs as well as feelings that have been suppressed, through appropriate movement. There is a brief history of development of dance therapy as well as a personal story about how fears can limit the ability to dance.

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"The expressive arts offer a multitude of opportunities for the human spirit to achieve balance, freedom, relief and potentially self-actualization. While great emphasis in class has been placed on the spirit of the human condition and spirit of the soul, after a brief discussion about the spirit, this paper will focus on what movement and dance therapy are about, the use of dance therapy as a way of unleashing burdensome emotions and psychological pathology in combinations of the arts and solely using dance and movement as the expressive medium. This paper will also include comments on the generally fear and shame based reasons why individuals might initially shy away from dance and movement therapy."

Tags:dance, movement, emotional

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The paper relates that the movie depicts a young girl who aspires to be a professional ballet dancer. The paper explains that she sees her dream come to an abrupt halt - in her view - when her mother is killed in an auto accident. The paper discusses how she personally feels responsible for her mother's sudden and untimely death because - in a previous scene in the movie - she made her mother promise to attend her dance recital on the day the accident occurred. The paper expalins that now, after the fact, she believes the demands she made on her mother caused her death.

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"The movie depicts a young girl who aspires to be a professional ballet dancer. She sees her dream come to an abrupt halt - in her view - when her mother is killed in an auto accident. She personally feels responsible for her mother's sudden and untimely death because - in a previous scene in the movie - she made her mother promise to attend her dance recital on the day the accident occurred. Now, after the fact, she believes the demands she made on her mother caused her death."

Tags:save, last, dance

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In this article, the writer discusses that modern dance developed in the early 20th century and its creators intended to alter dance that was considered mechanic in the classical style. The writer looks at the emergence of modern, post-modern and contemporary dance.

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"Innovators of modern dance in Germany and the United States believed that natural elements had to be incorporated into dance in order to fill the void between human existence and the natural world. Therefore, modern dance sought to incorporate a focus on "inner and outer realities". One of the primary founders of modern dance was Isadora Duncan. Duncan, of ..."

Tags:dance, modern, postmodern

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This paper describes the Ghost Dance religion and how it spread to Native American tribes. The paper discusses the history of the Native Americans from the time of Andrew Jackson until the Wounded Knee massacre, and demonstrates how the Native Americans were pushed farther and farther westward, and eventually limited to a very small area. The paper explains how the United States army and government's fear of the Ghost Dance religion led to the Wounded Knee massacre, describing the events of the massacre, and the political issues surrounding the massacre and the Ghost Dance religion.

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"James Mooney writes in The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 that the essential part of the teaching of the Ghost Dance is the doctrine that the world is old and worn and the time is near for its renewal (Mooney 661). The Ghost Dance was an American Indian religious revivalist movement that spread through the Plains Indians and other ethnic groups during the 1890's and due to a culmination of events is forever linked to the Wounded Knee massacre of 1890 (Ghost pp)."

Tags:Ghost, Dance, indian, native, american, reservation, sioux, wounded, knee

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This paper takes a look at Islam's view on dance and music. According to the paper, although there are many groups within Islam that profess that music and dancing are forbidden, it is clear that the Qu'ran itself does not explicitly prohibit these activities. The paper goes on to say that several avenues of worship within Islam have developed into the practice of reaching God through dance or music. The paper focuses specifically on the Quwalli and the Mevelevi Order, also known as The Whirling Dervishes.

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"More intentionally musical is the Sufic tradition of the Quwalli. Quwali means "word," and can be thought of as the physical and auditory manifestation of the divine voice. As with the Quri, the Quwallis use their voice as a tool of worship, but they move into the world of interpretation and individual expression of the words themselves. They can be likened to the Gospel singers of the Western world in this respect, though this may be a misleading comparison since the Sufi practice, from which the Quwalli find their beginnings and roots, is far more steeped in history and tradition and could be considered a more "serious" endeavor. Quwallis use the music of their voices to worship foremost, and to communicate and encourage their listeners to worship with them is a secondary concern."

Tags:Qari, God, Allah, sema, prophet, gift, worship, dance, body, Sufic, tradition

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This paper discusses Uzbekistan's indigenous form of Sufi zikr dance that has borrowed from pre-Islamic, shamanistic and folk traditions. The paper further considers how this dance survived in its unique form despite Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet surveillance and also, fundamentalist Muslim criticism as voiced recently after an Uzbek Sufi performance in India.

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"Uzbekistan's takeover by the Soviet Union shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution produced encouragement of what were seen as peasant arts and repression of what were regarded as Islamic `foreign' elements that were not foreign, at all, the Central Asian Republics happening to be traditional locations of Sufism. (Thrower 117-118) With the fall of the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan's nationalist government has discouraged Islam, including Sufism, in a general avoidance of militant Islam, the country's Sufis often under observation, more apt to meet in private homes than in..."

Tags:uzbek dance, sufi zikr, syncretism

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This is a high level overview of dance movement therapy, what it means and how it can successfully be integrated into an individual's life. Part of the overview includes an emphasis on how dance movement therapy can be beneficial for one's daily live even if one is not suffering from emotional or mental health issues. There is also a brief explanation of the role of expressive arts therapy.

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"Expressive arts therapy has many components, one of which is dance movement therapy. Halprin (1999) states "movement is the body's universal language...a bridge to the interior world of self and between self and the world." Dance movement therapy has few limitations as to who can do partake in this expressive form of movement and who can benefit from it. This paper will provide a basic overview of what dance movement therapy is and how it is effective. The second section of the paper will focus on how dance movement therapy can be successfully integrated an individual's life. Part of the overview includes an emphasis on how dance movement therapy can be beneficial for one's daily live even if one is not suffering from emotional or mental health issues. "

Tags:dance, therapy, expressive

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The writer of this paper details the history of the Hula dance and its significance as a ritual of religion, celebration, mourning and communication. This brief, yet concise paper, examines how, in ancient times, dancers were selected for hula training in childhood, spending their formative years under the care of a hula master, separated from the outside world and dedicated to the goddess Laka, patron of the hula. Hawaii's history of births, deaths, loves and battles were expressed in the Hula dance. The writer also details the accompanying music and melodic poetry, to which the dancer's swayed, which include the double-gourd drum, called ipu heke.

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"The history of births, deaths, loves, and battles of the people were preserved in chants and dance. Since Hawaii's history was recorded as dance, "hula dancers were expected to remember and repeat every dance step perfectly and under punishment of death," for "to change the dance was to change history." Hula was the written word for ancient Hawaiians, told through the movements of the dancers' feet, hands, and body movements. Through dance, stories were told, genealogies were kept, and beliefs were shared and imposed, thus to change the steps would be to change the message."

Tags:dance, history, hawaii, culture, ritual, communication

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This paper examines how three main groups of kabuki plays, the dance-drama, historical drama, and domestic drama make up the majority of kabuki theater and how they are adapted either from puppet theater, from kyogen dramas, or plays written specifically for kabuki. It looks at how Tokyo's Shochiku Company is one theatrical group that has made an impact on American theater by presenting kabuki in the heart of the U.S., in Texas.

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"Kabuki has its origin in Japan's Edo period. The form can be traced back to performances by female shrine dancer Okuni in a dry riverbed in 1603. The dances performed by Okuni and her fellow female dancers combined religious dances and folk dance. Okuni's performances became highly popular, and many troupes soon imitated the style. Performances became increasingly risqu and boisterous, and women were banned from performing in 1629. In 1652, a brawl between two samurai competing for the attentions of a young male actor spurred authorities to ban young men under the age of 14 from appearing in kabuki (Spencer)."

Tags:art, drama, acting, far, east, tradition, shochuki