Dance All the Rage

Dance has come into its own as a popular form. Pop, Rock, Techno and beyond have caught the popular imagination, finding its way into competitions and prime-time television. What a great force for performing arts educators. Dance Education especially has an opportunity to build on this enthusiasm.


Dance is a basic human expression, and a new sensibility of dancing emerges from popular culture and impacts on all the arts powerfully. The young man in this YouTube "History of Dance" connects with the popular expectations of his audience.

Of course Dance has always been at the core of cultural experience whether the culture be primitive or highly developed, dance has served as a means of personal and cultural expression and communication. Often dance gives rise to the "music"---suggesting perhaps that movement inspires sound just as much as sound inspires movement.