History of Dance: an Interactive Arts Approach by Gayle Kassing (65-130)

Summary:

     Social studies expert believe that in order to understand a historical era, one must immerse themselves in it. Capturing dance through its history takes a variety of tools and resources. Some dance choreographers keep a choreographic journal where they record movements, ideas, steps, floor patterns, dance positions, music count, phrasing, costumes and design. Dancers throughout history has a devise way to capture dancing by recording dance movements so that it could be shared with others. Dance iconography is a visual tool that captures a moment or the essence of a dance. 

Quote:

    "Dance does not appear in a vacuum. It exists as part of the tapestry of arts, culture, society and history." (Kassing, 125)

Reaction:

    I love this quote. It tells the audience that dance is a mixture of everything. Dance incorporates art, and culture in some dance choreography. Dance also has many connections to society and history. The choreography is created/design to reflect and mirror the real society. It also incorporates history to keep the plot develop, and to keep the audience members entertained.

   

History of Dance: an Interactive Arts Approach by Gayle Kassing (1-65)

Summary:

     Dance is a moving art that exist for a short period of time, then it disappear; only to exist in the mind of the dancers and the audience members. The major focus of the history of dance is the dancer, the dance work, choreography, and the literature within that period of time. The understanding if each of those concepts and components, and how they interrelate with other arts in a historical and cultural time frame. In history, "people drive the event." The dancers, the dance creators, the choreographers, and the directors. Dance is often called a mirror of society. A response to historical events, and also religious movement. It is also a social statement, no matter where its performed, nor by whom. How people danced and the types of dances they performed are connected to society and the historical time period.

Quote:

    "The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space." (Kassing, 3)

Reaction:

    Dance is used as an active imagination. Its the mother of all other art, meaning its the leader/top chief of other arts. Dance consist if music, poetry, painting, and also architecture. It doesn't only exist in "time", but it also exist in space, meaning that it exists everywhere. Its another way to express others emotions and interior/exterior feelings. Dance lives both in time and in space.