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Modern ballroom dance has its roots early in the 20th century, when several different things happened more or less at the same time. The first was a movement away from the sequence dances towards dances where the couples moved independently. This had been pre-figured by the waltz, which had already made this transition.
10 Οκτ 2024 · Ballroom dance, type of social dancing, originally practiced in Europe and the United States, that is performed by couples and follows prescribed steps. The tradition was historically distinguished from folk or country dance by its association with the elite social classes and with invitational
European culture and style of dance was imposed on Africans including Nigerians through mission schools during the colonial era (jstor.com). Thus, there was a considerable departure from African cultural dances to new form of dances, such as the Ballroom Dances; Waltz, Jazz, Twist, Tango and so on.
The origins of Nigerian dance' are open to speculative recon-struction from contemporary traditional practice and from oral history (see Begho, 1977). It is first necessary to give a brief account of the central characteristics of Nigerian dance. Dance in Nigeria is synonymous with music and is even
10 Νοε 2022 · Here we have dance styles of native tribes and indigenes, warrior ballads that tell stories of lives past, and the world of a hundred years ago told through mime sequences. We talk about Atilogwu, Ekombi, Osaro, the Bata dance, and Ikpirikpi-ogwu.
In Nigerian traditional societies dance is the vortex of religious ritual ceremony: a priest or priestess is the leading dancer, using dance and gestures to lead initiates in dances designed to appease the supernatural ers, solicit divine protection, or give thanks to the guardian spirits of munity.
12 Απρ 2021 · The origins of the oldest traditional ballroom dance, Waltz, first appeared in 16th century Europe. Michel de Montaigne, a French philosopher, wrote about what he observed “individuals danced together so closely that their faces touched."
