Date: Monday 13th June 10:30
Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park)
Subject: Dance As Portrayed by Artists Throughout History
Lecturer: Brian Nicholls
A visual presentation of Dance without music might seem a little strange but the subject has fascinated artists for centuries.
Dance can reflect a wide range of human emotion, such as love, eroticism, vulgarity, class distinction and spiritual communication, to name but a few.
The origins of dance are unknown but they probably evolved from communal life where people expressed needs and emotions of a practical or spiritual nature. Some scholars believe that choreography developed from a sort of wish fulfilment where dance movement imitated animals and mimed their capture in the expectation of reality emanating from the dance form.
The presentation will commence in the era of classical painting through the developments of the various well known schools of painting through to the modern era and, briefly, the subsequent leap into Abstraction in which the human figure was erased and dance was portrayed just by colour and visual movement.
