BEST CANADA DANCERS PROFILES
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Dance
is the word broadly used to define a human behaviors
characterized by movements of the body that are expressive
rather than purely functional. Walking,
running and jumping
can, in certain circumstances, be described as dance.
It is the social Dance, emotional
and intellectual motivation that distinguishes
dance.
People have danced
for many different reasons: as a form of religious
devotion or invocation, as a recreational
diversion, as a mating ritual, as entertainment,
as a pleasing form of exercise, as physical or psychological
therapy, or simply to express something that cannot
find voice in words. As long as people have inhabited
the land we now call Canada Dance,
there has also been dance.
Long before the arrival
of transatlantic explorers, dance
was an important part of the ritual, religious and
social life of Canada's aboriginal peoples. The earliest
written record of dancing in Canada
is found in the diaries of Jacques Cartier.
He wrote in 1534 of being approached,
along the shore of Chalem Bay, by
7 canoes bearing "wild men ... dancing
and making many signs of joy and mirth." In their
journals, those who came after Cartier made frequent
reference to Native dance.
The very different
directions in which dance developed in the settler
cultures, it was inevitable that indigenous dance
forms would have little impact on the later development
of dance in Canada.
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