where did dancing first originally come from?
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Dancing has been around as long as people have. It is one of many forms of communication, and appears to have no particular "birthdate". Ancient peoples danced to bring rain, worship gods, and court eachother.
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As  understand it...having been around during the years that breakdancing was beginning...Capoeria was one of the places that the breakdancers got some of their more acrobatic movements, along with traditional jazz dance, gymnastics, and some of the previous forms of street dancing like popping and locking.   They also borrowed movements form some of the chinese kung fu styles as well and when you watch the old breakdancing demos from the 80's you can see those influences.
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Wasn't able to find anything on how it started or when, but I found a couple of links where you might be able to get some more information.  I did find some speculation on it originating from Maypole dancing or tree dancing, but nothing solid.  Good luck.
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Probably the Romans, or someone in Europe in soon after them. It may have started as something like 'Hola' or something and evolved and took an Enlgish prononciation.
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The first band to sing '' DANCE,DANCE,DANCE'',was the eagles from the album ''Fly like an Eagle"\n The latest band to sing ''DANCE,DANCE,DANCE'',is the \nFallout Boys from the Album '' from the album ''From Under The Cork Tree ''
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the first pair of ice skates date back to 3000 b.c
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theres a lot of theater history magazines, scholarly works and the like. Check this out:\n\n\nhttp://eres.geneseo.edu/webpage/resources/database.asp?a23=Dance%20and%20Drama
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Belly dance or bellydance is a Western name coined for a style of dance developed in the Middle East and other Arabic-influenced areas. In the Arabic language it is known as Raqs Sharqi.\n\nBelly dancing legitimizes the natural "roundness" of the female body, in contrast to the modern Western cultural preference for flat stomachs. Most of the basic steps and techniques used in belly dance are circular motions isolated in one part of the body, i.e., a circle parallel to the floor isolated in the hips or shoulders. Accents using "pop and lock" where a dancer either shimmies or makes a striking motion in her shoulders or hips are common, as are feats of flexibility, rolling one's stomach muscles, balancing various props like baskets, swords or canes.\n\nEgyptian-style belly dance is based on the work of belly dance legends Samia Gamal, Tahiya Karioka, Naima Akef, and other dancers who rose to fame during the golden years of the Egyptian film industry. Later dancers who based their styles partially on the dances of these masters—and who have risen to nearly the same level of stardom and influence on the style—are Sohair Zaki, Fifi Abdou, and Nagwa Fouad. All rose to fame between 1960 and 1980, and are still popular today.\n\nand i like it, and it is very sexy and (check this out) : feminine
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History\n\nThe earliest skates (c.9th cent.), made of bone, were found in Sweden. Wooden skates with iron facings appeared in the 14th cent. Skates made entirely of iron were introduced in the 17th cent. Steel skates, with straps and clamps to fasten them to the shoes, were sold in the 1850s, and later came the skate permanently attached to the shoe. Skating has long been a means of travel in countries with long, cold winters, such as Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, and especially Holland. There are references to skating in English books as early as the 12th cent. By the 18th cent. skating was not only a means of travel but also a well-established sport. European colonists introduced it early into America and Canada.
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Swimming has been known since prehistoric times. Drawings from the Stone Age were found in "the cave of swimmers" near Wadi Sora (or Sura) in the southwestern part of Egypt. Written references date from 2000 B.C., including Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible (Ezekiel 47:5, Acts 27:42, Isaiah 25:11), Beowulf, and other sagas. In 1538 Nicolas Wynman, German professor of languages, wrote the first swimming book, Colymbetes. Competitive swimming in Europe started around 1800, mostly using breaststroke. The front crawl, then called the trudgen, was introduced in 1873 by John Arthur Trudgen, copying it from Native Americans. Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic games in 1896 in Athens. In 1902 the trudgen was improved by Richard Cavill, using the flutter kick. In 1908, the world swimming association, Federation Internationale de Natation de Amateur (FINA), was formed. Butterfly was first a variant of breaststroke, until it was accepted as a separate style in 1952.
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The steel pan music originated in Trinidad and Tobago\nxXxNooRxXx
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1. Presumably the words "What are the ..." are missing from your question. If you can't be bothered to ask a proper question, you can hardly expect to get a proper answer.\n\n2. I would suggest these as a start:\na) traditional/folk music\nb) traditional costume\nc) normally danced either in pairs or as a larger group\nd) likely to be practised:\n(i) in rural or small urban areas (not in cities)\n(ii) where culture is perceived to be under threat of suppression or extinction.\n\n3. You should find out what you can on the internet. Yahoo! Answers is not a great place to get answers to a question such as this. I recommend searching at www.dogpile.com
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staart from how and where they originated or why they left wherever they came from
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Where it started.  In England
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originally, it came from the pagan/druidic belief system and evolved from there. It is NOT a form of satanic worship or any of that crap!
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http://www.firstdance.com/fd2.htm
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Ice skating is believed to have been started in Sweden over twelve hundred years ago by the Vikings. The runners, made of bones, were ground down until they formed a flat gliding surface, and thongs tied them to the feet. The blades were polished oxen or reindeer bones. These weren't very efficient, so they used a long stick to push themselves forward and stay upright. Skates were originally used for transportation over the frozen rivers and later used for fun. Skating has been found to date back to 50 B.C. It was most common to skate where there are long, cold winters especially in places like Scandinavia.\n\n \nThe Skater, 1782, a portrait of William Grant by Gilbert Stuart.In the 17th century, canal racing on wooden skates with iron blades was popular in the Netherlands. Also in that century, James, the younger son of the British monarch Charles I, came to the Netherlands in exile, and he fell for the sport. When he went back to England, this "new" sport was introduced to the British aristocracy.\n\nIn the 18th century, ice skating became known world-wide as a sport and the Dutch created skates with much longer blades.