For me, dance is the ultimate art form. Dance requires commitment of the total person in the most visceral, abstract and creative way. You are your body, and your body encompasses all- the musculature, the thoughts, the sensibilities, the awareness, the senses. As dancers, we keep our bodies alert, aware and sensitized. As dance performing artists, we use our bodies as the means of communication and express ...

To define something is to set limits or boundaries, yet many practitioners of the elusive, ephemeral medium of dance, especially in a restless, novelty-driven culture like ours, often seek to break through and go beyond the limits and boundaries of precedent and propriety. One dictionary defines dance: "to perform (make, do, accomplish), either alone or with others, a rhythmic and patterned succession of mo ...

Turned inside out, I dance alone or with someone, for someone or myself. Tell a story without words, paint a picture with my body ... reflecting the never-ending rhythm beating inside of me, searching for the essence of expression. My body, a primal instrument, responds to a feeling, a person, a song ... it cannot lie, it cannot hide, everything is revealed. Tajna Tanovic is a performing artist with 23 year ...

Nature: Birds flocking at sunset, moving as one yet each with unique voices and flight mannerisms. Schools of fish. Grass reaching up in a high release of energy to the sky, flowers nodding to each other in a chorus of swaying color. Spiders bend at the knee, grasshoppers jump. The cyclical choreography of life in all it's forms, of movement, survival, adaptation, of the food chain: this is dance. What I'm ...

A dance is created through a series of movement. Any movement can be construed as a dance. For example, cars weaving in and out of traffic, walking through a crowded sidewalk, etc. Concert dance is different and special in the respect that the movements are done with the intention of moving as opposed to a necessity. It is also common to see a difference between the spectator and the performer within the co ...

What is Dance? I don't know right now. Dance is constantly changing and reinventing itself. It's asking me to do the same. Just when I think I understand it, it pushes me in a new direction.It's more than physical movement, it's energy, intention, ideas and music in motion. - Ginger Cox Ginger Cox / LiNK! the Movement was created as a jazz dance company that has since moved away from being labeled by a genr ...

For something I have studied and loved so much, it is one of the hardest questions I have had to answer! Maybe it means too much to me to sum up or put into words, but I tried... dance is the outward physical expression of an inner energy. It may be developed into choreography which is the architecture of movement and movers. - Kelly Buwalda Kelly Buwalda enjoys teaching, dancing, running, and biking all ov ...