| It is natural to want to dance and move whenever | | | | dress in garments of grey and drop our heads to |
| we hear music. With the drum beat of a military | | | | respond in heavy deliberate movements to show |
| march, we want to march in time; the smooth circles | | | | what the music intends.For the professional dancer, it |
| of a waltz have the power to make us feel like | | | | is music which dictates the mood and demands that |
| twirling forever; and a lullaby makes us lilt our bodies | | | | a dancer surrenders his body to that music, not just |
| into sleep. Dance is a natural expression and is a | | | | for his own pleasure, but for the sake of a wider |
| natural response to music that is heard externally or | | | | purpose. Then the dancer surrenders to music as if it |
| sometimes but rarely, it is in resonance with the | | | | were the conductor, as he seeks to make his body |
| sounds of inner joy, to which only the individual is | | | | its complete or final instrument .The dancer can only |
| privy.Most people wish to dance, or enjoy dancing. It | | | | surrender to the music if he wishes his body to |
| is a feature in the life of most people throughout the | | | | serve to express its influence. To dance to a rhythm |
| world who reveal the differences in their culture | | | | without conscious thought is a pure reaction - it is |
| through the different types of music and the | | | | not an art.Dancers are agents of the music - there to |
| different styles of dance movement they develop in | | | | express something of the spirit of his inspiration of |
| their traditional art. There is a different between the | | | | the composer. If we like the music we are asked to |
| dance of a country barn dance or western line-up | | | | dance to, there is an easy relationship and harmony |
| with a country band and the rap dancing with its | | | | between the music, the source of it and our bodies. |
| accompanying intonation and sounds; between the | | | | It is all in tune and the dancer can add the ingredient |
| tap dancers metallic beat to a popular tune and the | | | | of his own intelligence and pour his feeling through his |
| ballet dancers soft pointed feet describing the | | | | body language. If we are not attracted to the music |
| patterns of a classical piece; the passionate guitar and | | | | then the dancer is a mere puppet. In the future, to |
| strong heel beats of a Spanish flamenco and the | | | | use a dancer without him having conscious desire to |
| smooth swirls of an Austrian circular waltz to the | | | | express the music will be seen as dancer abuse! It is |
| strains of a violin.Music provides the powerful | | | | not a true and fine example of the art form at all |
| influence which we seek to express in movement | | | | unless music and dancer are as one.If we hear |
| and dance. In addition, if our own emotions are | | | | discordant sound and it is the fashion to move to it, |
| moved, we can convey how we feel by injecting our | | | | one must be very skilled or insensitive or perhaps |
| emotions into our physical movements. If music | | | | both in wishing to express chaos and discord. Life's |
| uplifts us, we may dance but wish we could fly and | | | | real discordant notes are only too well known in the |
| the best we can do is to raise our arms and elevate | | | | reality of living without having to bold type it all. |
| our bodies from the floor as best we can. If the | | | | Modern times are difficult with little rhythm, melody |
| music on the other hand is sombre, we would rather | | | | or harmony in any popular music. |