Dance (sage field)

Dance is a sage field available to bards, manifesting as a performance art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. The movement has an aesthetic and symbolic value, affecting the emotional and spiritual nature of the observer. At high degrees of performance, dance has the capacity to enchant and raise the effects of wild magic.

The field includes the following sage studies:

• Accompaniment (sage study): a skill at producing rhythm and music through the use of the body (clapping, calling or otherwise fashioning a beat) or musical instruments.

• Danse Noble (sage study): a theatrical dance performed in royal courts and temples, containing elements of folk dancing, beauty of movement, tableaux or grotesque, in highly stylized fashion.

• Folk Dance (sage study): providing emphasis on group participating and the use of music and rhythm to provide an emotional response from a large, involved audience.

• Social Dance (sage study): the performance of dances enjoyed at social gatherings, such as the ballo, carol, stampita or saltarello, offering a style of performance as well as an emotional connection between dancers, or between a dancer and a non-dancer.

See Bard Sage Abilities