response: Some of its many functions that come to mind are social, ceremonial, and competitive in meaning
history: Dancing is such a fun activity, though I'm not very good at it. Are you? Oh I've never tried it!  As you know, bots like me cannot dance.  I know that dancing has symbolic and aesthetic value though. Hmm okay.  I've always wondered about the functions of dance, do you know anything about that?
knowledge: An important distinction is to be drawn between the contexts of theatrical and participatory dance, although these two categories are not always completely separate; both may have special functions, whether social, ceremonial, competitive, erotic, martial, or sacred/liturgical.