Biography about dancing

International Dance Day English. International Dance Day is a holiday dedicated to all dance styles, it is celebrated on April 29. The date was proposed by the teacher and choreographer Peter Gusev in memory of the French choreographer, the theorist and reformer of the ballet Jean-Jorge Noverre, who went down in history as the “father of modern ballet”.

According to the founders, the International Dance Day is designed to combine all directions of the dance, become the reason for honoring this form of art, its ability to overcome all political, cultural and ethnic boundaries, the ability to unite people in the name of friendship and peace, allowing them to speak the same language of dance. From the moment when a person begins to walk, move, run, he expresses himself plastic.

Sometimes, in order to understand each other, there is enough gesture, turning the head, gaze. Look - here it goes along the street at dusk steam. You see them only from the back - and yet immediately determine whether they are just familiar or lovers. This is plastic. When a person has grief, he is petrified. And the suffering of a silent person cannot be confused with the thoughtfulness of an inquisitive youth.

This is also plastic. Everything is capable of the plastic expression of their emotions, so the dance connects people. The history of the emergence and development of dances is rich and multifaceted. Dance is one of the oldest types of art. Its appearance is attributed to the times of primitive tribes. Naturally, in that era, the type of dance and its purpose differed significantly from modern ones.

The development of this art has passed several stages, the dance has changed, like society as a whole. Primitive dance dance began his life with a man. The history of the dance is inextricably linked with the history of human culture. There were ritual dances, hunting, labor, military. They were transmitted from generation to generation. No matter how smart the man is, no matter how wide the circle of his interests is, still his life, if he is not able to express his feelings in music, in the song, in the dance, inevitably turns out to be depleted.

No wonder in ancient Greece, where the aspirations for the education of a harmonic personality were so developed, philosophers, like all citizens, were not alienated by dancing, and about the great playwright and poet Sophocles, it was known for certain that in honor of the victories of the Persians he publicly sang and dancing the “ciap”. The Greeks understood the nature of dancing, understood that the dance was able to reveal what the drama, music, and painting were powerless before.

The finest impulses of the human feeling are subject to dance when it becomes art. Look at the ancient Greek steles, red -figured or black -figured vases. Here the bodies themselves are pleasing, screaming, jubilant. We say - this is plastic. Historians are difficult to determine when exactly people began to dance for the first time. Nevertheless, the antiquity of this event can be judged by the ancient casual drawings found in India, which depict dancing people.

It is assumed that dance movements were used by primitive people before the appearance of speech. So they could convey to each other their emotions and experiences. In addition, the dance could include the moment of the game, made it possible to “reincarnate” the dancer. For example, hunters weaved into their dance movements characteristic of animals. Another feature of the ancient dance is a strong connection with the rituals.

Not a single ritual did without a special totemic dance that could last several days. Dances of ancient cultures of mentioning dance can be found in the Old Testament. Archaeological finds indicate the presence of this art in ancient Egypt. Judging by ancient drawings, collective female dances were distributed there. India is rich in deep dance traditions. 2 species have reached today - Nritt's pure dance and the plot of the Nedi.

Nritt is the movements of the body combined with gestures of the hands. Nedi - a dance telling a certain story. For this dance species, special poems are written. In ancient India, ritual dances, performed on special sites in temples, also played a large role. In ancient China and Japan, the art of dance also developed successfully. Initially, the dance was mainly part of the rituals, and the profession of the dancer echoed with the profession of priestess.

Later, the art of dance began to teach all the girls. In addition, in the Far East, a plot dance was developed, which was inseparably connected with the theater. In ancient Greece, the dance played an important role in the life of society, here, along with other ancient Greek gods, Torceichor was revered - the goddess of dance. In Greece there were several types of dance - ritual, military, plot, marriage and salon.

Men and women danced separately. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the Middle Ages in Europe with the advent of Christianity, dance begin to be considered a relic of the pagan past. The ritual dance disappears almost completely, and even folk dances are not approved. However, in the XIV century, among the nobility, the salon dances of Branl, Sardan, Pavan and others who are dancing the lady and gentleman of the Paired.Balls become popular.

In the Renaissance, both salon and stage dances develop. In the XVII century, ballet appears, the first ballet school opens. The profession of the dancer of the choreographer appears. Modern and folk dancing dance was an integral part of any folk festivities. We cannot imagine real fun without dancing. The energy of joy, apparently, is special energy, because it inevitably spilles, pours out in motion.

Each nation, every nationality has its own special set of movements, its own rhythm, completely special plastic. This was fixed and turned out to be as resistant as the national costume, national character. Different eras, changes in the way of life, in social and cultural relations were reflected in the dance. The development of the dance was also influenced by fashion.

Folk dances developed in every country and, as well as national clothing or architecture, have their own characteristics unique. Each nation had dances with different moods and purpose. Basically, funny dances have reached this day, without which no festivities had previously dispensed with. Ball dancing when the dance from the squares moved into the halls of the palaces, it became an expression of the lifestyle of the ruling layers of society.

About the favorite in the 18th century, Menuet said: "The one who dances Menuet well does everything well for which he takes up, and can take on everything." The elegance of manners, the nobility of posture, the exquisite reverence that were necessary in the minuet, made up the necessary qualities of the courtier. In those days, a ballet appeared at the court, which very soon became a favorite entertainment of kings.

In the XX-XXI century, many new dance areas appeared-swing, Hastle, Break Dance, Contemporary, etc. Ball, historical dances developed. In Russia, the first ballet was put in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich on Shrovetide in the year, his plot was borrowed from ancient life. The dance withstood a long battle in order to become an independent art, to separate from singing and drama.

And Torsichore became called the muse of ballet. There was such a profession as a dance writer, in most cases, we are talking - we say - a choreographer. The outwardly brilliant and always difficult fate of the ballerina was surprised. In the dance, their laws, rules were fixed, certain movements that exist to this day were summarized. As in painting there are colors, in music notes, and in classic ballet - certain poses, movements, from which, as from letters, choreographers, and then actors make words, from words - phrases, from phrases - poems, novels, novels.

A special plastic language has arisen, capable of conveying the most complex movements of the soul. A language that has been learned with incredible perseverance and self -confirmation for decades, all their lives.