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  2. Psychology of dance - Wikipedia

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    Dance increases connectedness among students and between students and teachers in the classroom. [17] In schools students can enhance bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, reorganize neural pathways to improve learning, and express knowledge through dance. [16] Dance helps students to develop a sense of self as an emotional and social being.

  3. Dance therapy - Wikipedia

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    Dance/movement therapy (DMT) in USA [1] and Australia [2] or dance movement psychotherapy (DMP) in the UK [3] is the psychotherapeutic use of movement and dance to support intellectual, emotional, and motor functions of the body. [4] As a modality of the creative arts therapies, DMT looks at the correlation between movement and emotion. [5]

  4. Abhinaya - Wikipedia

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    Additional hastas (hand gestures) have always played a significant role in conveyance of the emotion and through of a soul. Many of the natural gestures are found common to mankind and their meaning easily understood. Mastery of abhinaya includes the ability to direct the audience's gaze toward a particular sight, through eye movements. The ...

  5. Dance and health - Wikipedia

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    Dance therapy or dance movement therapy is a form of expressive therapy, the psychotherapeutic use of movement (and dance) for treating emotional, cognitive, social, behavioral and physical conditions. Many professionals specialize in dancer's health such as in providing complementary or remedial training or improving mental discipline.

  6. Expressionist dance - Wikipedia

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    Ballet was perceived to have been superficial entertainment. The new dance would be art, both individual and artistic creation. The dance was described as the art of movement. It was a revolution. It would be more expressive, and show more spirit and emotion and less virtuosity. The dance would be improvisational, uninhibited and provocative.

  7. Viewpoints - Wikipedia

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    Viewpoints is a movement-based pedagogical and artistic practice [1] that provides a framework for creating and analyzing performance by exploring spatial relationships, shape, time, emotion, movement mechanics, and the materiality of the actor's body.

  8. Ballet d'action - Wikipedia

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    The expression of dancers was highlighted in many of the influential works as a vital aspect of the ballet d'action. To become an embodiment of emotion or passion through free expression, movement, and realistic choreography was one chief aim of this dance. [1] Thus, the mimetic aspect of dance was used to convey what the lack of dialogue could ...

  9. Interpretive dance - Wikipedia

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    It used classical concert music but marked a departure from traditional concert dance, as a rebellion against the strict rules of classical ballet. [1] [2] [3] It seeks to translate human emotions, conditions, situations or fantasies into movement and dramatic expression, as opposed to following a specific dance style or telling a linear story ...