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No
one really knows when dance started. Some say it has been around forever
and people have probably done it since they have been able to walk. This
is probably because dance is movement. The earliest cave paintings are of
dancing as well as the ancient Egyptian and Greek tombs. Dance has played
a large part in religion. There we ceremonies for death, weddings, and
even rain dances.
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The fourteenth century
was when dance started turning into a social event. France started
watching English and Bohemian dances that were performed in the towns and
villages and then copied and choreographed then into dances that could be
learned and done over again.
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The
fifteenth century, dance masters from France went around the world to find
good dancers for the their castles and courts. Peasants that did grinding
and were in poverty would learn to dance and if they were chosen their new
jobs would be able to work in the castles and it improved the society.
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Dancing became the most
popular entertainment during the seventeenth century.
In the eighteenth century ballet companies were installed in most of Europe and Russia. In the nineteenth century Americans starting dancing. The Indians danced for religious rituals and for hunting, but never entertainment. Ballet then came into an America in the twentieth century.
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