African dances mainly refers to the many cultural differences. They mostly dance in tribes or worshiping gods. These dances help people work, mature, praise or criticize members of the community while celebrating festivals and funerals, competing, reciting history, proverbs and poetry, and to encounter gods. Traditional dance in Africa expresses the life of the community. Dancers are often seperated by gender, age, and status. The character of dancing observed by travelers depended on the people, and the gender of the dancers. Men usually used large body movements, including jumping and leaping and women used smaller body movements. Some types of dance are, warrior dances, dances of love, rites of passage and coming of age dances, dances of welcome, and dances of possession and summoning.
Dance in Australia includes a very broad variety of styles, from Indigenous Australian to the traditional Australian bush dance and from classical ballet, and ballroom dancing to contemporary dance and multicultural dance traditions. The Australian Dance Awards have been offered since 1997. Traditional Indigenous dance was closely associated with song. Bush dance has deveploped as a form of traditional dance.
These are just a few of the different types of dances around the world, there are hundreds more. The dancers that perform these specific types of dances may not consider them a sport but either way they are still getting physical activity. Some types of dances, usually ones relating to culture, are not considered sports, and some are.
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