Dance in England!!
This blog is meant to creat and give us a chance to understand which are the most important dance companies in London and the way this art is perceived today.
This blog is meant to creat and give us a chance to understand which are the most important dance companies in London and the way this art is perceived today.
Dance in England has found languages, forms, meanings and applications over the last four decades.
One of the basic reasons why people love to dance is for fun, recreation, social or for health. Some stuidies have been found that dance is important in education, and particularly as a tool against some particular deseases . In fact during health settings there is a strong proof that greatest impact is achieved if the patient for example suffering from depression syndromes engage himself in dancing or in physical activities.
An other important statistic that I found to be really relative to the dance industry regards the founding that it need to acquire in order for this sector to perform weel.
There are currently 72 dance organisations that receive regular funding from the Arts Council , 23 are based in London,19 across the Arts Council's North West, North East and Yorkshire regions,20 in the Midlands and South West, and 10 in the South East and East. These regularly founded dance organisations currently constitue 10,78 per cent to Arts Council Englads's overall spend, as compared to 1997-119 fugures where it was 12,44 per cent. The 54 dance organisations receriving regular funding from the regional arts boards and the Art Council in 1998/199 shows that the majority (24 ) were agencies,followed closely by companies (22).Almost 80 per cent of all organisations received grants of less than 250K£.
There are currently 72 dance organisations that receive regular funding from the Arts Council , 23 are based in London,19 across the Arts Council's North West, North East and Yorkshire regions,20 in the Midlands and South West, and 10 in the South East and East. These regularly founded dance organisations currently constitue 10,78 per cent to Arts Council Englads's overall spend, as compared to 1997-119 fugures where it was 12,44 per cent. The 54 dance organisations receriving regular funding from the regional arts boards and the Art Council in 1998/199 shows that the majority (24 ) were agencies,followed closely by companies (22).Almost 80 per cent of all organisations received grants of less than 250K£.
Dance operates within a mixed economy. Arts Council funding gives significant investements from other sources including local authorities, private sector funding trusts and fundations and earned income. From 2004-2007 , Arts Council investement comprised of 32 per cent of the total income of dance agencies, venues and festivals, and 50 per cent of the total income of the producing and touring compainies. There has been an increasing investement in this sector with over than 3 million through Grants for the arts that has made a difference to the economy of the sector although this only compromises only 9 per cent of the total funds available through Grants for the arts in the years 2004-2008.
The Dancing Industry deals and focuses mainly on engaging with workface in film, television, digital production,webcasting and music video. As a student of dance has pointed out in this report "One of the most interetsing aspects of being a dancer is to have the possibility to be innovative and cutting edge on the web. Being able to travel and work internationally and create work with partners throughouyt technlolgy is an exciting opportunity".(2005)
The Dancing Industry deals and focuses mainly on engaging with workface in film, television, digital production,webcasting and music video. As a student of dance has pointed out in this report "One of the most interetsing aspects of being a dancer is to have the possibility to be innovative and cutting edge on the web. Being able to travel and work internationally and create work with partners throughouyt technlolgy is an exciting opportunity".(2005)
There are different types of dances each of them with a precise set of rules and mouvements that you need to be aware of . Some of the most famous and interesting types of dances include:
Jazz: This is a fun dance, that relies hevaily on originality and improvisation. Many jaz dancers mix different styles into their dancing, incorporating their own expressuin. Jaz dancing is charcaterised by using bold, dramatic body movements, including body isolations and contractions
Hip-Hop is a dance style, usually danced to hip-hop music that evolved from hip-hop culture.Hip-Hop include various moves such as breaking,popping, locking and krumping and even house-dance. The main important characteristics of this dance are improvisation and personal interpretation which are essential to hip-hop dancing.
Modern: dance is a new style that rejects many of the stric rules of calssical ballet , focusing mostly on the expression of inner feelings. Modern dance was created as a rebellious actions against the rules of classical ballets, focusing mostly on cheorography and performance.
Swing : This kind of dance is characterised by a strong rythmatic bit with couples making jumps, spinning and swinging. 
Contra Dance: this is a form of American fok style in which dancers from two parallel lines and perform a sequence of dance movements with different partners down the lenght of line. Contra dancers are usually friendly, active people with a deep love for dance.
Flamenco dance is an expressive dance form that mixes percussive footworks with inricate had, arm and body movements. This dance originated in Spain and conist of three main forms: Cante, the song, Baile, the dance and Guitarra,gutar playing 
Flok Dance: this dance refers to a variety of movements developed by groups or communities as opposed to being made up by a choreogrpaher. There are several type of this dance including; clogging, english country dance, international fold dance, Irish dance Maypole dance, square dance and many more.
Tip-Tap : Tap dancing is an exiciting form of dance in which dancers wear special shoes equipped with metal taps. Tap dancers use their feet like drums to create rhytmatic patterns and timely beats.
In nowadays society Dance has been changing and some of these styles have been mixed together to create even more exciting dancing . A new generation of upung artists us starting to emerge through the centresfor advanced training and through the workd of organisations such as Youth Dance England.
Popular culture has brilliantly helped to raise profile of dance. Dance has been represented by some important shows such as Strictly Come Dancing and Britain Got Talent as well as Billy Elliot to the Musical, have captured the public's imagination.
Like theatre dance needs to develop new approaches so that the audience will have more chances to enjoy the magic and ownderful world of the dance . It is important to keep teh relationsjips between choreographers, dance companies and thetares strenghted to better foster an environment with witch dance can fully cluorish and crete even more harmonic performances and show
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