Dancing Facts

Top 10 facts about dancing1. The English actor and theatrical manager David Garrick (1717-1779) called Noverre “The Shakespeare of the dance”. 2. The earliest known evidence of dancing comes from 9,000 year-old cave paintings in India.3. Capoeira is a martial art based on dancing developed by slave descendants in Brazil in the 16th century. 4. In 2014, Unesco gave capoeira special protected status as an “intangible cultural heritage”.5. “Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance,” (Confucius). 6. Break dancing began in the 1970s in New York as a non-lethal form of street fighting between street gangs.7. Some say that ballet was invented in 1459 for a royal wedding in Italy with dances representing the dishes being served. 8. St Vitus is the patron saint of dancers.9. St Vitus’ Dance is a neurological disorder characterized by rapid, involuntary movements.

10. “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” (Voltaire).