Berlin, Germany

Dance Studies

Tanzwissenschaft

Master's
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Dance Studies at Free University Berlin

Language: GermanStudies in German
Qualification: Master
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: www.fu-berlin.de

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Dance
Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement. This movement has aesthetic and symbolic value, and is acknowledged as dance by performers and observers within a particular culture. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements, or by its historical period or place of origin.
Dance
Where dance is, there is the devil.
John Chrysostom Homily on Matt.48.3
Dance
Come, knit hands, and beat the ground
In a light fantastic round.
John Milton, Comus (1637), line 143.
Dance
They have measured many a mile,
To tread a measure with you on this grass.
William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act V, scene 2, line 186.
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