The dance has been part of the history of humanity since the beginning of time. The cave paintings found in Spain and France with a length of more than 10,000 years, show drawings of dancing figures and rituals associated with pictures of hunting scenes. This gives us an idea of the importance of dance in primitive human society. Many people around the world see life as a dance, from the movement of clouds to changes in season. The history of dance reflects changes in the way that the people understand the world, their bodies and experiences related to the cycles of life. In India, among Hindus, the Creator is a dancer,

dancing Shiva Nataraj ago the world through the cycles of birth, death and reincarnation. In the early days of the Church in Europe, worship included dance while at other times the dancing was outlawed in the Western world. This brief history of dance focuses on the Western world.