Listening Activity Blog on "The Augurs of Spring"

For this blog, you can either choose to write about one of the listening examples discussed in our Music and Dance class lectures (“Libertango,” capoeira, “Baamaaya,” “Branle des lavandieres,” and “The Augurs of Spring”) or find your own example of a song accompanied by a dance. Make sure to include a link to a performance video in your blog if you choose your own option.
Referring to the dance recording, your class notes, and/or textbook chapter, please answer the prompts below. As always, if you quote or take information from any source, make sure to tell us where it came from!
Describe the social background of the dance: is there a single choreographer/creator, or does it come from a cultural tradition? Do we know who created the music? What social role does the dance play (for example, mourning, celebrating, telling a story, romantic attraction, etc.)? Please add any information you think is useful for understanding why this dance is important to some people.
Describe several of the movements you see in the dance. Listening to the rhythm (beat, meter, tempo) of the music, what connects these movements to the music in your opinion? For full credit, make sure to use some of the textbook vocabulary we learned to describe the musical elements (Chapter Two).