Summary Of Just Get Up And Dance By Dave Berry

“ Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance” by Dave Berry. To me as an art student and a person who grew up performing theatrical dances, dance is a way to express oneself and find life within the beat of music. With dance you are telling a story to your audience members and captivate them with freedom of one's expression. Dance is moving rhythmically to music, typically following a set sequence of steps, or a person who is moving quick in a lively way. Dance is an art form in which human movement becomes the medium for sensing, understanding, communicating ideas, feelings, and experiences. Dancing first started as an ancient temple ritual such as dancing before the Gods. By doing this they believed that the Gods would bring them crops and help the citizens have a plentiful year. This type of dancing that originated from Egypt was viewed as spectacles in courts. Dancing was a peaceful and blissful way of showing emotions to people to please them. An idea that started off as a ritual eventually lead to ballet which from then and over time had advanced to new movements and new
Many brave risky dancers and choreographers wanted to take part in this new movement. This new dance movement style and technique was being passed down from teachers to students. After Rudolf Von Laban gave influential promising education of expressionism dance to his student Mary Wigman and she then passed it down to a great friend of hers named Hanya Holm. Hanya opened a dance school based on principles of German expressionist dance. Hanya took the concept of Rudolf Von Laban and Mary Wigman’s idea of expressionist dance which expressed the human emotion and that it started from within. Hanya transformed the German expressionist dance principles and made them freer and more abstract. Hanya was taking what was already done and giving the dance concept a new twist and fresh new