Article 2          Before babies learn to talk and have no idea of dance, they express happiness through simple rhythmicmovements or what we later recognize as simple dances. However, humans are not the only species that candance. There are birds that actually have group dances: circling, bowing, advancing, and retreating in unison.Some species could learn rhythm from birds. For example, bees flirt with dance as part of their mating rituals.          Nevertheless, it is only human beings that have adapted dance to therapeutic purposes. Dance as therapyhas a long history. Primitive peoples first danced instinctively and, after a while, found that repeated rhythmicmovements produced a good feeling. Associations were formed between dance and this positive effect on themind and emotions. This was the birth of dance therapy.
         Dance has always seemed to have a magic healing power. It was used for a wide variety of purposes andon different occasions: religious ceremonies, war dances, hunting dances, rain dances, planting and harvestingdances, marriage and funeral dances. Sadly, today many “advanced” industrial societies have lost manyoriginal functions of dance. Purposeful dances have been replaced, for example, with rave dancing whichinvolves shaking your body at a nightclub. Even so, in these cases, however, the ritualistic and therapeuticeffect of dance can still be seen: the low lights, loud insistent rhythms, and group activity, often building upinto a kind of mass hysteria or ecstasy.
       But, the “primitive” use of dance as therapy has recently seen a huge revival. Never before has there beensuch interest in courses offering dance therapy. There are nearly two million websites for dance therapy on theInternet, and dance therapy groups around the world combine pleasure with health and well-being. Dancetherapy nowadays, in fact, is taken very seriously by both alternative and conventional medical practitioners.It would seem that the “dance of life” continues to move us all.
【題組】46. Which is the best title for the article?
(A) Dance as a Therapy
(B) Choreography Chronicle
(C) Dances on Different Occasions
(D) Dancing Animals and Insects