See the Music, Hear

the Dance

The relationship between dance and music the essence of how dance visually expresses

music, and what dancers should always bear in mind when they perform.

Dance is an art from that expresses ideas, emotions, spirituality and stories through

movement of graceful, rhythmic and coordinated body of steps, turns, shakes and other

movements. Music and dance have in common really is the rhythm, one of the main components

of the music, along with the tone.

It is clear that music can affect the mood of a dance as shown when the same movement

is performed to different musical selections. Music is a sound or the study of such sound,

organized in time while dance is a sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed

to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction. ‘’Dance is music made visible, dance to

express not to impress.’’