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⇑Dance Theory at AMU

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: arts

University website: www.amu.cz

Years of study: 3

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Dance

Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement. This movement has aesthetic and symbolic value, and is acknowledged as dance by performers and observers within a particular culture. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements, or by its historical period or place of origin.

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Theory

A theory is a contemplative and rational type of abstract or generalizing thinking, or the results of such thinking. Depending on the context, the results might, for example, include generalized explanations of how nature works. The word has its roots in ancient Greek, but in modern use it has taken on several related meanings.

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Dance

And then he danced;—all foreigners excel
The serious Angles in the eloquence
Of pantomime;—he danced, I say, right well,
With emphasis, and also with good sense—
A thing in footing indispensable:
He danced without theatrical pretence,
Not like a ballet-master in the van
Of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.

Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto XIV, Stanza 38.

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Theory

The successful development of science requires a proper balance between the method of building up from observations and the method of deducing by pure reasoning from speculative assumptions...

Paul Dirac, “Physical Science and Philosophy”, Nature (1937) Vol. 139, p. 1001.

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Dance

Where dance is, there is the devil.

John Chrysostom Homily on Matt.48.3

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