A topic within Dance, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Performing Arts.
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Lilly Grove
Surveys dance across historical periods and cultures — from ritual and folk dance to the ballet and ballroom of its own day — arguing that a society's dances reveal its social structure as clearly as its laws or its art.
440 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026Troy Kinney & Margaret West Kinney
Argues dance is a primary art on a level with painting or sculpture, tracing its logic across ballet, social dance and non-Western forms rather than treating it as mere entertainment.
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