Have you ever thought about the history of dance, or how long human life has known it? Dance has been around longer than you think. We can take the dance back as far as 600 BC to the present day. Dance has brought very big changes over time. We went from doing it only in honor of the dead or religious situations to now just for fun. The manner and different movements have also changed over this long period. Manners and movements changed, as did the outfits used to perform these different types of dances. There have been clean and dirty dances since the beginning, some things in these dances have remained, others have not. Dance has been a very great thing and will remain so throughout human life because it expresses many things. It expresses itself, and a person can express their feelings, in different types of movements. It takes time to learn the moves, but you can get by. What was dancing like from 600 BC to 1 BC, and were there different types? “Choros” was a dance that didn't really involve movement but had great meanings for the people and their gods. Choros was a dance in which a group of people danced in a circle near the virgins of the temple. In India, this dance involved hand movements. The Virgin of the Temple was the centerpiece of the developing Greek theater. This was done in honor of a God and usually took place during the Olympia Games. The God that people danced to in those days was Dionysus. He was the God of fertility and wine, to whom women danced frenziedly. As they danced, they carried long phallic symbols known as Thyrsoi, tore them into pieces and devoured the raw flesh of a sacrificial animal. With these practices, the Dionysians also developed a more structured form of ...... middle of paper ...... emotionally or physically. Dancing is a great way to express yourself when you are happy, sad, excited, gloomy or just to improve yourself. The dance didn't start very cleanly or well, it was mixing everything up and it always will be. So, people who practice it get the most out of it and it becomes their passion. Always makes the best of the worst by dancing in and out of it. Works Cited « Dance Timeline at a Glance | Lineage| Period. Np, nd Web October 22, 2013 - “HistoryWorld Timelines”. Timelines from the world of history. Np,nd Web October 22, 2013- “A certain history of dance!!!! » Toast on time. Np,nd Web November 8, 2013- “Dance in the Middle Ages”. The Fiver Times: resource on war, crime and history. Np, nd Web November 8, 2013 - “Chronology of social dance”. Dance Time Publications. Np, nd Web November 7, 2013 - “History of dance”. History of dance. Np, nd Web November 8 2013