| It is natural to want to dance and move | | | | heads to respond in heavy deliberate movements |
| whenever we hear music. With the drum beat of | | | | to show what the music intends.For the |
| a military march, we want to march in time; the | | | | professional dancer, it is music which dictates the |
| smooth circles of a waltz have the power to | | | | mood and demands that a dancer surrenders his |
| make us feel like twirling forever; and a lullaby | | | | body to that music, not just for his own pleasure, |
| makes us lilt our bodies into sleep. Dance is a | | | | but for the sake of a wider purpose. Then the |
| natural expression and is a natural response to | | | | dancer surrenders to music as if it were the |
| music that is heard externally or sometimes but | | | | conductor, as he seeks to make his body its |
| rarely, it is in resonance with the sounds of inner | | | | complete or final instrument .The dancer can only |
| joy, to which only the individual is privy.Most | | | | surrender to the music if he wishes his body to |
| people wish to dance, or enjoy dancing. It is a | | | | serve to express its influence. To dance to a |
| feature in the life of most people throughout the | | | | rhythm without conscious thought is a pure |
| world who reveal the differences in their culture | | | | reaction - it is not an art.Dancers are agents of |
| through the different types of music and the | | | | the music - there to express something of the |
| different styles of dance movement they develop | | | | spirit of his inspiration of the composer. If we like |
| in their traditional art. There is a different between | | | | the music we are asked to dance to, there is an |
| the dance of a country barn dance or western | | | | easy relationship and harmony between the |
| line-up with a country band and the rap dancing | | | | music, the source of it and our bodies. It is all in |
| with its accompanying intonation and sounds; | | | | tune and the dancer can add the ingredient of his |
| between the tap dancers metallic beat to a | | | | own intelligence and pour his feeling through his |
| popular tune and the ballet dancers soft pointed | | | | body language. If we are not attracted to the |
| feet describing the patterns of a classical piece; | | | | music then the dancer is a mere puppet. In the |
| the passionate guitar and strong heel beats of a | | | | future, to use a dancer without him having |
| Spanish flamenco and the smooth swirls of an | | | | conscious desire to express the music will be seen |
| Austrian circular waltz to the strains of a | | | | as dancer abuse! It is not a true and fine example |
| violin.Music provides the powerful influence which | | | | of the art form at all unless music and dancer are |
| we seek to express in movement and dance. In | | | | as one.If we hear discordant sound and it is the |
| addition, if our own emotions are moved, we can | | | | fashion to move to it, one must be very skilled or |
| convey how we feel by injecting our emotions | | | | insensitive or perhaps both in wishing to express |
| into our physical movements. If music uplifts us, | | | | chaos and discord. Life's real discordant notes are |
| we may dance but wish we could fly and the | | | | only too well known in the reality of living without |
| best we can do is to raise our arms and elevate | | | | having to bold type it all. Modern times are difficult |
| our bodies from the floor as best we can. If the | | | | with little rhythm, melody or harmony in any |
| music on the other hand is sombre, we would | | | | popular music. |
| rather dress in garments of grey and drop our | | | | |