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People dance for many different reasons.  In a social context, some dance to meet new people or for courtship.  In the case of classical dance, people train to be experts in the dance and demonstrate their skill to others perhaps in a competition.  Other dances, however, transcend this material world in their ambition of honoring or representing a deity or greater power. 

In the land of Korea, one such example of the latter is seungmu, a dance performed by Buddhist
monks (commonly called “seunim (스님)”.)  The word “seungmu” comes from two Chinese characters, “seung (승)” meaning monk, and “mu (무)” meaning dance (Korean Dictionary.)  It is most often performed as a solo piece and utilizes drums played by the dancer.