Why is the rhythm of the music so important to dancers?
Dance is the expression of feelings when listening to music. The music makes you want to dance and move your body to express how the music is making you feel. Without the music we are not dancing, we’re simply moving. Each piece of music has a beat or pulse. The steady repetitive pattern which gives us the timing of the music. As dancers we either move freestyle, (expressing freedom of movement) or with structure (in a dance routine), or in partnered social dancing we lead an