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Essay / The history of dance - 550
Dance is an integral part of our world and it always has been. Dance is used to show something, anything really, something that happened in history, something that would never really happen in real life. But in dance it doesn't matter because you show images with the movement of your body. People have danced since the dawn of time to show how they feel. At the beginning of the world, there's not really any trace of dancing, there's no evidence of dancing. But I feel like they danced. I think the nomads danced in all their free time. I just don't think they knew they were dancing. Because dancing is such an integral part of the story and presence, I think they had to dance. The dance has developed in different ways and all over the world. Some people danced for certain reasons. Egyptian farmers danced to give thanks for a good harvest. The dancers danced after almost every meal for entertainment. Men danced at funerals; they wore high headdresses made of reeds. In ancient Egypt, dance was part...