Here is little tidbit about the origins of dance:
Dance is generally, though not exclusively, performed with the accompaniment of music and may or may not be performed in time to such music. Some dance (such as tap dance and Flamenco) may provide its own audible accompaniment in place of (or in addition to) music. Many early forms of music and dance were created for each other and are frequently performed together.
Archeological evidence for early dance includes 9,000 year old paintings in India at the Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, and Egyptian tomb paintings depicting dancing figures, dated c. 3300 BC. It has been proposed that before the invention of written languages, dance was an important part of the oral and performance methods of passing stories down from generation to generation. The use of dance in healing rituals is thought to have been another early factor in the social development of dance.
References to dance can be found in very early written history; Greek dance (horos) is referred to by Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch and Lucian. The Bible and Talmud refer to many events related to dance, and contain over 30 different dance terms. In Chinese pottery as early as the Neolithic period, groups of people are depicted dancing in a line holding hands, and the earliest Chinese word for "dance" is found written in the oracle bones. Primitive dance in ancient China was associated with sorcery and shamanic rituals.
Many contemporary dance forms can be traced back to historical, traditional, ceremonial, and ethnic dance.
Perhaps you may recognize some of the dancing hieroglyphics found in an earlier century:
