On Wednesday I watched a young couple's final personal dance lesson before their forthcoming wedding next Saturday.
The engaged couple were not going to bop the ancient bridal waltz, but instead were dancing a slow romantic dance that had been skilfully choreographed to their favorite love song. Every facial features, each body position and movement in that dance had this couple terribly clearly telling each alternative repeatedly, "I really like you..., I really like you..., I like you...". However, not a word was spoken.
This slow romantic dance was immediately followed by a terribly spirited Mambo. The dancing couple through this second dance said to me the observer, "yes, we love every other dearly and we tend to are really going to own fun and get pleasure from our lives along".
I've got taught tertiary courses on communication, and have used the following eventualities to demonstrate to students that communication isn't just concerning verbalisations and the written word.
"OK, combine up and once I say 'go', I need you to take care of eye contact with every alternative for thirty seconds only, however don't communicate anything."
We tend to would then discuss this state of affairs as a class and typically the consensus would be that the eyes are terribly important within the communication process. And, in fact they are.
A second situation I sometimes used was to induce one of the students to walk outside the classroom and to then come in and be very careful to not even fleetingly provide eye contact to anyone in the room. This student had been told not to speak anything to anyone.
In fact, it will not be done.
We tend to can not, not communicate.
But, some forms of communication are additional powerful than others.
And, what a robust type of communication is DANCE.
My friend and Flamenco Dance knowledgeable Tom?s Dietz sent me a commentary he had written last week on Flamenco. The article is termed "What's Flamenco?", and I've got revealed it on my Australian Dance Directory dot information web site.
His introduction reads:
Flamenco could be a complex art kind firmly woven into the fabric of Spain's Andalucian culture, expressed through passionate singing, driving guitar accompaniment and intensely emotional percussive dancing that involves arching bitter sweet body movements and shotgun footwork.*
Understanding that the dance's history can be traced back to the 15th Century and also the shocking atrocities suffered by the Spanish Inquisition and with the various different cultures involved, gives an entire new that means when seeing the dance performed.
Trendy Jive, Swing, Rock 'N' Roll, and many other dances have their roots within the dances danced by Afro-Americans back in the 1920's and 1930's. I have written and printed another article on the history of these dances called, "Hopping at the Savoy". To these dancers at the time, DANCE, was probably more important as a communication tool than language itself.
There are thousands of different dances and many lots of designs of dance, and anybody of them might be checked out as a communication tool. However if I was to provide more exemplification here, this is able to become an epic and not simply a commentary on dance and communication.
Dances are capable of expressing the entire vary of human emotions. And, the more the dancers of the dance feel those emotions, usually the additional convincing the dance performance will be.
Dancers, whether or not they dance Classical Ballet, Tap, Flamenco or whatever are typically passionate concerning their particular dance vogue or styles. As a skilled working in the world of communication, education and coaching, and also somebody who is passionate regarding dance, I've got printed a suite of fifteen net sites covering all designs and every one aspects of dance.These sites as well as a dance blog are all listed within the Australian Dance Directory dot information web site.
However DANCE, is one in all my passions, it's not my business. As already mentioned, dance will be a powerful communication tool. But, conjointly as I have mentioned, it's not possible not to communicate. But how effective that communication is, will be a terribly relevant issue. My company Professional Performance Australia (PPA) is involved with communication and skilled development. We tend to use a easy but extraordinarily effective model known as "CPS" for companies to arrive at higher solutions. The CPS (Communication and Problem Solving at Work) model was developed by Dr Charles Margerison and has been effectively used by major companies throughout the world. Eight out of 10 major firms in Australia are currently using this program. I'm happy to grant the link to a brief video of Dr Charles Magerison being interviewed concerning this model to anyone who contacts me and asks for it. PPA also incorporates a range of alternative workplace communication programs such as negotiating and bargaining.
My contact details are on the internet web site listed below. Thus whether or not you are a dancer or not, if you are concerned in an exceedingly business that will on occasions encounter some problems that need solving, the CPS model will certainly be of help to you
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