Reflection About Dance

Throughout the history of the cultures of civilizations, dance has been upheld and performed for many different purposes, such as for rituals, entertainment, pleasure, art, and sport. There are prodigious themes of judgement and perception tied into dance just as there are with any work of art, ranging from museum gallery paintings to opera compositions. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, an appropriate definition of dance is “a definite succession or arrangement of steps and rhythmical movements constituting one particular form or method of dancing.” Every step or motion made in dance is intended to use the maximum amount of strength, but to depict the step or motion as effortless. Similar to alternative physical activities, dancing necessitates some type of structure as well as movement within its different forms. Evidently, dance is

According to our class lecture, the formal elements of dance are time, space, energy, and intention. I contend that all of these elements are sustained when looking at dance through a sport-related lens or an artistic lens. Dancers’ ability to integrate each of the mentioned formal elements of dance attests to the remarkable abilities of dancers and demonstrates how dance is more powerful than simply an art or a sport. With the help of this course, I have learned how to actively view dance as more than just a sport or as an art but as both concurrently. When people argue that dance is defined by the word “art” or the word “sport,” I am able to effectively convey my stance on the debate by explaining how dance can and should be defined by everything associated with the word “art” and everything associated with the word “sport.” All in all, I defend the reasoning that supports dance as both an art and a sport and I believe it is important that more people view dance in this same