How Music and Dance Relate

Music and Dance was an Australian television program, a four part series aired live in 1959 on Melbourne station ABV-2, part of ABC. The lessons answer how music and dance relate, and how their relationship can be understood through performance and changing dance practices. They consider how music accompanies dance and how dance practices shape the way music is performed and shared.

2 articles, 1 video, 1 book · about 8 min of reading and viewing

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   the relationship between music and dance · Wikipedia · 1 min read

   Latvian dancer Vija Vetra, who was living in Australia at the time, danced accompanied by Robert Wilson on the piano, as the title of the series suggests.

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   When Mambo Was King, Its Creators Were Stereotyped - JSTOR Daily · JSTOR Daily · 2 min read

   Mambo's relationship to dance was not one fixed style: David F. García explains that "mambo" identified a new trend in existing danzón choreography. Dance schools capitalized on the music's popularity, but teachers often stripped the dance of improvisational and innovative steps, standardizing a sequence of steps. This obscured the music's roots and helped mainstream it.

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   How Chinese Folk Dancers Continue to Practice During Quarantine | Atlas Obscura · YouTube · 5 min watch

   The Xuejuan Dance Ensemble kept practicing classical Chinese dance online during quarantine, even though teaching its body rhythm virtually is difficult. Chinese folk dance reflects regional and cultural differences, and it connects Chinese-American dancers with their ancestors.

4. Book
   

   Dance Dance Dance · Bookshop.org

   Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami combines an offbeat cast of characters, including a psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads, with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose.

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