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The Draw-a-Person test ( DAP, DAP test ), Draw-A-Man test ( DAM ), or Goodenough–Harris Draw-a-Person test is a type of test in the domain of psychology. It is both a personality test, specifically projective test, and a cognitive test like IQ. The test subject uses simple art supplies to produce depictions of people.
Work based on original drawing by Pieter Brueghel. The dancing plague of 1518, or dance epidemic of 1518 ( French: Épidémie dansante de 1518 ), was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France ), in the Holy Roman Empire from July 1518 to September 1518. Somewhere between 50 and 400 people took to dancing for ...
Apatampa is a dance performed by the Fanti's in Ghana. Historically, It is believed that, the name of the dance was derived from an incident that happened a long time ago where a giant use to attack and kill the Fante men at night. One night, when the giant was fighting the last man, a woman appeared and danced gracefully to distract the fight ...
The painting shows three dancers, the one on the right being barely visible. A macabre dance takes place, with the dancer on the left having her head bent at a near-impossible angle. The dancer on the right is usually interpreted as being Ramon Pichot, a friend of Picasso who died during the painting of Three Dancers.
The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann Schedel. The Danse Macabre ( / dɑːns məˈkɑːb ( rə )/; French pronunciation: [dɑ̃s ma.kabʁ] ), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory from the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death. The Danse Macabre consists of the ...
Theatrical dance, also called performance or concert dance, is intended primarily as a spectacle, usually a performance upon a stage by virtuoso dancers. It often tells a story, perhaps using mime, costume and scenery, or it may interpret the musical accompaniment, which is often specially composed and performed in a theatre setting but it is ...
In March 1909, Matisse painted a preliminary version of this work, known as Dance (I). [3] It was a compositional study and uses paler colors and less detail. [4] The painting was highly regarded by the artist who once called it "the overpowering climax of luminosity"; it is also featured in the background of Matisse's Nasturtiums with the Painting "Dance I", (1912).
Outline of dance. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to dance: Dance – human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. Choreography is the art of making dances, and the person who does this is called a choreographer.