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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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