Today, dance has so many forms and so many expressions but it is interesting to know how they have all evolved from just one source the movement in human body. Dance has thus been a mode of entertainment, a means of communication, and culturally a unifying factor across different countries.
In olden days, dance was a medium that was used to express how humans underwent changes – from childhood to adolescence to adulthood and finally old age. Different types of dance suggested the feelings that each individual goes through as he or she passes each stage of life.
Dances also portrayed human reaction to weather changes, to war, to death, to new birth etc. With evolution of human kind, dance also evolved simultaneously. Dance was categorized and while most of the dance performances where held on social events like prayers, marriage, childbirth etc,