APPRECIATING DANCE Dance - is an art and a recreation that involves the rhythmical movement of the body‚ usually with music‚ to express an idea or emotion‚ to narrate a story or simply enjoy and take pleasure in the movement itself - As an art‚ a dance may tell a story‚ set a mood or express an emotion - As a form of recreation‚ it has provided fun‚ relaxation‚ and companionship -As an art it started from the moment it was harnessed to a rhythm‚ probably the stamping of the feet and clapping
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Where do Stories Come From? One If this be magic‚ let it be an art lawful as eating. 3 Telling stories is as basic to human beings as eating. More so‚ in fact‚ for while food makes us live‚ stories are what make our lives worth living. They are what make our condition human. This was recognised from the very beginnings of Western civilisation. Hesiod tells us how the founding myths (mythos in Greek means ‘story’) were invented to explain how the world came to be and how we came to
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technology available to them. I will be critically examining how this performance related to my student learning objectives‚ while also analyzing my performance‚ which I did under three different theories: performativity‚ the alienation effect‚ and mimesis‚ poiesis‚ and kinesis. This performance both related to the second student learning objective in particular. The second student learning objective is‚ “Students will be able to identify the dynamics of ethnic‚ cultural‚ gender/sexual‚ age-based‚ class
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Anti-mimesis is a philosophical position that holds the direct opposite of Aristotelian mimesis. Its most notable proponent is Oscar Wilde‚ who opined in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying that‚ "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life". In the essay‚ written as a Platonic dialogue‚ Wilde holds that anti-mimesis "results not merely from Life’s imitative instinct‚ but from the fact that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression‚ and that Art offers it certain beautiful forms through
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There are at least two ways by which birth is related to memory (or ‘Collective Memory’ to be more precise); the first is the Jungian ‘Collective Unconscious’ transmitted hereditarily and has been alternatively called ‘genetic memory’ (Treffert) while the second are Dawkins’ memes transmitted culturally. Much scholarship has been done on the first and for our present purposes it should suffice to say that “the contents of the collective unconscious have never been in consciousness‚ and therefore
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comes from the Greek word "mimesis‚" which means imitation and representation (Hall 1997).Representation of art began with early ideas of Plato and Aristotle. Plato viewed art as an ‘imitation of nature.’ Due to this‚ art had no knowledge and therefore had no intellectual value. According to Plato‚ art was a copy of a copy thus barely real at all (Hall 1997). Like Plato‚ Aristotle maintained that art was a mimesis of nature; however he disagreed with the nature of that mimesis (Hall 1997). Unlike Plato
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Aristotle on Greek Tragedy The word tragedy literally means "goat song‚" probably referring to the practice of giving a goat as a sacrifice or a prize at the religious festivals in honor of the god Dionysos. Whatever its origins‚ tragedy came to signify a dramatic presentation of high seriousness and noble character which examines the major questions of human existence: Why are we here? How can we know the will of the gods? What meaning does life have in the face of death? In tragedy people are
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communication including the themes of mimesis‚ nature /nurture and affects and emotions. Mimesis Mimesis is a term that carries a wide range of meanings‚ it is the Greek word for imitation‚ Imitation has been central to philosophical discourse through history‚ Plato and Aristotle were the first to treat this subject‚ Plato said that “all elements of matter in the created world were a mere shadow‚ or imitation of their absolute form in the non material realm of the Good.”‚ mimesis was view as a weaker and distortional
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Mimesis‚ the Greek word for imitation‚ has been of major importance in the history of aesthetic and literary theory. It is the earlier way to judge any work of art in relation to reality and to decide whether its representation is accurate or not. Though this mode starts from Plato‚ it runs through many great theorists of Renaissance up to some modern theorists as well. A literary work is taken to be a representation of reality or of any aspect of it. Plato holds a rather negative view on mimesis;
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Course: Philosophy and the Arts Prof. Eli Friedlander Final Exam Margarita Belova 964010565 otterloutre25@yahoo.com The relation of art and society according to Plato‚ Rousseau and Benjamin The relation between art and society is very complex and might be seen from the various perspectives. The main concern‚ however‚ has always been the one of the function of arts within the society – that is to say‚ what people need the arts for. Of course‚ this theme
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