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 |  |  |\n| V   n9h   | m   |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n\nCHABOTCOLLEGEHAYWARD CAMPUSLEARNING RESOURCE CENTER  \n25555 Hesperian BoulevardHayward,CA 94545  \n9  \nContents  \n6 What is Dance?18 Miming for Magic24 From Egypt to Athens32 From Tibet to Tokyo42 Heathen or Heavenly?50 Basse Danse and Bunny H60 Banquets and Ballet72 A Ballet is Born84 Mambo and Musical  \nDesigner Germano FacettiEditor David LambertArt Patricia LockieBruce RobertsonPerez RomanPeter Sullivan  \nPrinted in Great Britain by L.T.A.Robinson Ltd.Londo  \nArnold L.Haskell  \nThe Story ofDance  \nRathbone Books London  \n0,1960 Rathbone Books Limited  \n6  \n3  \n# What is Dance?\n\nThis book is about dancing:dancing all over theworld from Stone Age man to the ballet dancerMargot Fonteyn.It is an important and a vastsubject;there are no peoples who are without theirdances,whether we are thinking of boomerang-throwing natives in Australia or modern citydwellers with their rock’n'roll.The way in whichpeople dance and their reasons for dancing tell usa great deal about their way of living and thinking.Similarly the records which reveal how past peopleslived and thought help us to recreate a number ofthe ways in which they danced.  \nWhat we know about dancing through the ages islargely guesswork,guesses arrived at from severalclues:from what we know about primitive tribesliving today,from ancient drawings and carvings,but mostly from what we know of ourselves andour feelings.Most human feelings are instincts com-mon both to statesmen and the simple-minded,to20th century man and men living 20,000 years ago.  \nWe believe that dancing is an instinct.In otherwords something within each of us makes us wantto dance.We“dance with joy”if anyone brings us  \nA sequence of still photos of a moving body (left).a sketch ofstrips fixed to moving leg and arm(right)reveal rhythm under-lies all human movements;an athlete's and a ballerina's leap.  \ngood news,or we“dance with pain”if we bang ourthumb with a hammer.In a foreign country wewave our hands and arms in an attempt to makepeople understand us.In Italy,the people gesticulatenaturally and gracefully in everyday conversationswith one another.It is surprising how many ideascan be expressed in this way.  \nAlthough these instinctive movements tell ussomething about dancing,they are not the kind ofdancing this book is about.The broad question towhich we shall attempt to give an answer in thefollowing pages is zohat is dancing?  \nThe words “dance”and“dancing”come from anold German word danson which means “to stretch.”All dancing is made up of stretching and relaxing.The muscles are tensed for leaping and then relaxedas we make what we hope will be a gentle andgraceful landing.But clearly dancing must besomething organized and not merely jumpingaround in a state of temper,hunger or excitement.A good answer to the question would be to say 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