Time To Entertain

These days, a lot of music is related to dancing, in fact there's a lot of people who won't listen to music unless it makes them want to dance. Dancing has been around since ancient times, photo's of ancient egyptians and greeks show this..

Im sure it wasn't only the egyptians and the greeks who used to dance of course, i think it is a natural reaction to dance to a good sound so there would have been dancers worldwide!




In the 1400's during the renaissance period, dances were a popular thing in society. The upper class group of people considered dancing 'an essential social grace' and a lot of tutors were employed to teach different dances to them, as well as music and other things such as sports like martial arts and fencing. The lower class weren't able to pay for tutors etc so they would learn dances by just watching and trying to memorise them. Dances generally occurred at social occasions such as weddings and balls, or in court where the men and women would perform dances in front of royalty. Here's an example of how people looked and dances in the renaissance period..

In the present day dance is all over the place, there is countless amounts of dance style's. There is no more upper class or lower class dance, anyone dances how they want to dance. On the television we have dance contests, clubs these days playing dance music are filled with thousands of people expressing themselves through dancing to the music. It has become a major thing in society. This video shows how big dancing in society has become..