A. Its aim was.10. remove from dance, any external associations, so that the dancers could concentrate on pure movement and pure pattern.
B. Abstract dance was the name of a specific style of ballet, devised in the 1920s and developed at the bahaus.
C. Ballroom dancing, for example, is concerned with the pleasure the movement and pattern-making give to the dancers, and not with some external'programme’.
D. Jn the widersense, a great deal of danceis ‘abstract’.