International Dance Styles by Country
Entering the 21st Century high modernity, the dance scholarship has gradually been moving away from East and West dichotomy. Yet, so little we encounter a chance to discuss discursively about what links and separates the many dance cultures in Asian countries, especially the discourse of its modernism and contemporary.
Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social, cultural, aesthetic, artistic and moral constraints and range from functional movement (such as folk dance) to virtuoso techniques such as ballet. Dance can be participatory, social or performed for an audience.
It can also be ceremonial, competitive or erotic. Dance movements may be without significance in them, such as in ballet or European folk dance, or have a gestural vocabulary/symbolic system as in many Asian dances. Dance can embody or express ideas, emotions or tell a story.
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International Dance Styles by Country
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