Dance, Dance Evolution: Why humans love to bust a move
Dance seems to be the ultimate frivolity. How did it become a human necessity Subscribe to the Aeon Video newsletter: Watch Dance, Dance Evolution on Aeon: Watch more free videos on Aeon: Follow us on Twitter: Follow us on Facebook: Follow us on Instagram: Every culture dances. Moving our bodies to music is ubiquitous throughout human history and across the globe. So why is this ostensibly frivolous act so fundamental to being human The answer, it seems, is in our need for social cohesion that vital glue that keeps societies from breaking apart despite interpersonal differences. The French sociologist Émile Durkheim (18581917) theorised that collective effervescence moments in which people come together in some form of unifying, excitementinducing activity is at the root of what holds groups together. More recently, Br br, br,
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