[题目]

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Dancing plays animportant role in a culture. Use specific reasons and examples to support youranswer.

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Around the world, people gather to explore their emotions through dance.The dances are created as part of celebrations, as religious services, aspreparation for challenging hunts and warfare and to express sorrow (less oftenthan the other situations). Indeed, dance does play an important role within aculture and reveals a wide range of information about the characteristics of aculture. Three of the most revealing aspects of dance are the nature of theculture's symbols and art forms revealed in costumes and equipment, the bodylanguage (moves and gestures) which give information about social contactbehaviors and frequently the style of preferred music for the culture.

Ethnic dances, and certainly popular dancing, anywhere around the worldhave associated preferences for costumes and special clothing. Through dancing,the participants are able to reveal and express their chosen role in thegarments they choose; social roles in the dance are shown public ally to theobservers as well as the other dancers. Frequently dancers utilize objects likeswords or sticks or hoops or musical instruments to further reveal informationabout their role in the social story portrayed in the dance. Items such asspecial headwear and jewelry are further examples of the garments that ingeneral express preferences and culturally significant details about theparticular culture.

Dancers, by the very nature of the activity, physically express beliefs andattitudes associated with their specific culture. In many dances theparticipants are modeling typical activities of their culture and thus impartinginstructions and historical information to the audience. 

    In other dances, onecan see expressions of deep emotion: love, worship, grief, strength, anger, etc.and thus obtain clues about the inner feelings of the culture's individuals.Dance provides an opportunity for others to witness some of the specialbehaviors associated with activities in the culture. Also, dance is a (usually)public statement so that observers can see how members of the culture treatthose who are older members of the opposite sex, more respected members,etc.

The third aspect of dance that reveals much about a culture is the music orsinging that is typically a part of the event. Observers can see evidence of theof the types of instruments characteristics of the culture, and who plays theseinstruments as well as how they are used —— instruments may be associated onlywith special events and thus transmit valuable cultural information. Frequentlysinging is part of a dance program, and again an observer has an opportunity toobserve who is singing and the nature of the voices. I found this aspect ofdance particularly fascinating during a brief time I spent in a rural village inZimbabwe a few years ago.

Dancing is indeed a very important aspect of any culture. It provides acommunal opportunity for members of the culture to artistically express emotionswhile acting out typical activities and concerns in their world. For outsiderobservers, many valuable details about the culture are revealed。