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Dance has been an important part of most cultures from their earliest times. Throughout the world, as part of celebrations and ceremonies, entertainment, and teaching, dance serves social, spiritual, artistic, and emotional functions. Before the introduction of written languages, dance was one of the primary methods of passing stories and rituals down from generation to generation, of committing knowledge to memory, and of learning precision movements, such as swordsmanship. While many other art forms—music, painting and poetry—can be traced through
human history through physical artifacts, dance is less easily defined, and
like oral history and storytelling, relies on the direct communication of the
'vocabulary' of movement and stories from person to person. This vocabulary of
movement is used by dancers and choreographers to describe or imitate the
natural world (both living and inanimate objects), or to express common themes
and emotions. Some movements
Artifacts from the Indus Valley civilization show the importance of dance in the earliest years of the Indian subcontinent, and point to choreographic elements and dance postures that can still be seen today. From early traditions that form the basis of today's classical dance, to the rich diversity of ethnic and tribal movements, Pakistan shares the region's dance vocabulary, in both its folk and classical traditions.
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are universal and recognized by people around the
world, while others are unique to the region or people to which it belongs. 
