Kristine Penningroth: Nature's Dance v. Human Dance

After watching the video clip with the dance of the Bees, I started to think about the difference between the dance of Nature and the dace of Humans and whether there really is a difference or not. I have come to a conclusion that there is a difference and that difference has a greater impact on the animal or insect life than it does on the human life.

In nature, everything that is living has a purpose and must follow a protocol to survive. The dance of the bees is the way that the insect survives and continues to procreate. Without their form of dance, there would be no way for them to fine food, no way for them to mate, and no way for them to continue to be what they are and to do what they were put here to do. The animal kingdom has it's own way of continuing and it depends on its ancient traditions and the learned traits from the older generation. It is second nature to each species to do what they need to do to survive and make sure that they can provide for themselves and for the rest of the group.

The art of dance in the human life is very differnt. We do not necessarily do it for survival, but more for joy and entertainment. One can go the step farther and say that professional dancers do need it to survive since they are earning money to go on, but all in all dance is a form of expression and not a form of survival. Dance is fun and very simple. The only thing that is needed is a body and some sort of beat. The beat doesn't even need to be loud, it can be something in your head, as lng as you can move to it. Dance lets us express ideas and lets us relax as well as have fun. It is not there to create a survival process. We as humans have different ways of survival and becasue of that, we take dance a lot less seriously than nature does.

Both of these forms of dance do represent a way of life and a form of survival. Each is beneficial in its own way and serves a different purpose. There is a similarity between the two though and that would be the fertility dance that many tribes did. This is the same as the food gathering dance that the bees do. It's a form of survival or a dance that will ensure survival of the tribe. Both have the same idea and the same ambition, though are brought form in differnt ways. Both Nature and Humans have a dance that they pass down but both dances are differnt and have a differnt meaning when taken into consideration.