Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Art, Entertainment, or Sport?

This has been a very hard question for some to answer. What is dance? Here are a couple of definitions I found. Your assignment is to write a paragraph on what you think dance is. There is no right or wrong answer, this is your opinion.


art definition

NOUN

  1. human ability to make things; creativity of man as distinguished from the world of nature
  2. skill; craftsmanship
  3. any specific skill or its application the art of making friends
  4. any craft, trade, or profession, or its principles the cobbler's art, the physician's art
  5. creative work or its principles; a making or doing of things that display form, beauty, and unusual perception: art includes painting, sculpture, architecture, music, literature, drama, the dance, etc.
  6. any branch of creative work, esp. painting, drawing, or work in any other graphic or plastic medium
  7. products of creative work; paintings, statues, etc.
  8. pictorial and decorative material accompanying the text in a newspaper, magazine, or advertising layout
    1. Archaic learning
    2. a branch of learning
    3. the liberal arts (literature, music, philosophy, etc.) as distinguished from the sciences
  9. artful behavior; cunning
  10. sly or cunning trick; wile: usually used in pl.

entertainment definition

NOUN:

  1. The act of entertaining.
  2. The art or field of entertaining.
  3. Something that amuses, pleases, or diverts, especially a performance or show.
  4. The pleasure afforded by being entertained; amusement: The comedian performed for our entertainment.

sport definition

NOUN:

  1. any activity or experience that gives enjoyment or recreation; pastime; diversion
  2. such an activity, esp. when competitive, requiring more or less vigorous bodily exertion and carried on, sometimes as a profession, according to some traditional form or set of rules, whether outdoors, as football, golf, etc., or indoors, as basketball, bowling, etc.
  3. fun or play

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