Meaning
Dance generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. Dance is also used to describe methods of non-verbal communication between humans or animals (e.g. bee dance, mating dance), motion in inanimate objects (e.g. the leaves danced in the wind), and certain musical forms or genres. Choreography is the art of making dances, and the person who does this is called a choreographer. Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social, cultural, aesthetic, artistic and moral constraints and range from functional movement to codified, virtuoso techniques such as ballet. Similarly with the advent of modern art, artists like Jackson Pollack – whose work now appraises for millions of dollars – were ridiculed by critics for the abstract art they produced. The length of your art degree will also vary depending on the country you choose to study in. For example, most undergraduate courses in the UK last ...