Monday, April 27, 2009

Where is dance from? The first signs of dance!

So dance the first type of dance. The first records they have of dance is from the cave painting found in caves obviously from cavemen.The earliest known European cave paintings date to 32,000 years ago.When Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola first encountered the Magdalanian paintings of the Altmira cave, Cantabria, Spain in 1879 people think that dance was first used for worshipping people and gods. The beat of music they danced to was strong so that they became intoxicated in dance and rituals and to use it as a way of loosing themselves.
Dance and music became a ritual together and started the geographical road of dancing!


Dancing has been put into loads of ancient cave paintings as you can see.









http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/CavePainting1.jpg












Thats my first bit about dancing hope you liked it sorry for the bad frist post. Jen