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(M9-GUIDE) Study Guide For Dance

This document provides a detailed study guide about dance, including its purposes, elements, types, techniques, and the evolution and history of dance styles from prehistoric times through modern times. It discusses ceremonial, social, and performance dance and traces the development of dances from ancient Eastern and Western cultures to modern dance styles from around the world, with a focus on Philippine dances.

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(M9-GUIDE) Study Guide For Dance

This document provides a detailed study guide about dance, including its purposes, elements, types, techniques, and the evolution and history of dance styles from prehistoric times through modern times. It discusses ceremonial, social, and performance dance and traces the development of dances from ancient Eastern and Western cultures to modern dance styles from around the world, with a focus on Philippine dances.

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[M9-GUIDE] Study Guide for Dance

DANCE - move rhythmically to music, typically following a set sequence of steps.


Purposes of dance:
1. Ceremonial - dances created or performed for rituals or celebrations.
2. Recreational - dancing for entertainment, to support recreational activities.
3. Artistic Expression - dance created with the intent to express or communicate
emotion, feelings, ideas.
Elements:
 Time
 Space
 Force
Types:
 Ceremonial
 Social
 Performance
Medium:
 Body Movement
Techniques:
 Centering
 Gravity
 Parallellity
 Posture
 Placement in the Turn
 Winding
 Balance
 Body Alignment
Evolution of dance:
1. PREHISTORIC: Paleolithic/Neolithic dance
-mimetic in nature: circular movements
Types: funeral rites dance, nature worship, animal dances, puberty rites, vegetation
dance, ritual exorcism

2. ANCIENT EASTERN DANCES


a. China – Kagura dance
b. Japan – Bugaku
c. India – Bharata Natyam, Khatk, Kutchi pudi
d. Egypt – Min Festival dance, Orisian Paggeant dance, Funeral and Fertility dance

3. ANCIENT WEST GREEK DANCE


Greek
 PHYRIC (war dance)
 KOMUS (mimetic dance: Gymnopodic style)
 BARCHANALIAN DANCE
 HOROS DANCE
Roman
 LUPERCALIA
 AMBARVALIA
 ETRUSCAN
 SABELLIAN
 OSCAN
 SAMNITE

4. 11-1400’S MEDIEVAL AGE


 CAROLE
 ESTAMPE
 SALTARELLO

5. 1500’S RENNAISSANCE
 BALLET:
a. CLASSICAL (Nutcracker – Pierre Duchamp, Jem Baptiste Lully)
b. NEO CLASSICAL (George Balanchine)
c. CONTEMPORARY BALLET (Twyla Tarp)
 ALLEMANDE - processional couple dance with stately, flowing steps, fashionable
in 16th-century aristocratic circles; also an 18th-century figure dance.
 BASSA DANCE
 LA VOLTA
 GALLIARD
 PAVAN
6. 1600’S BAROQUE/ROCOCO
 RIGAUDON - a French baroque dance with a lively duple metre.
 BOUREE - is a dance of French origin and the words and music that accompany it.
 CHACONNE
 COURANTE

7. 1700’S NEO CLASSICISM


 5 STEP WALTZ - a family of couples dances from the mid to late 19th century
couple dance that is danced to music in 5/4 time.
 OTHER WALTZES
 POLKA

8. 1800’S ROMANTICISM/IMPRESSIONISM
 SCOTCH REELS – a folk dance type as well as the accompanying dance tune type.
 JIGS - is a form of lively folk dance in compound metre, as well as the
accompanying dance tune.
 CLOG DANCES

9. 1900’S CUBISM/SURREALISM
 1910: BALLET IN AMERICA (ANA Pavlova, Alicia Markova, Lincoln Kirsten)
 Black Ragtime (Martha Graham, Ruth St Dennise, Ted Shawn)
 Foxtrot
 Turkey Trot
 Improved Tango
 Castlewalk
 1920s
 Charleston - involves the fast-paced swinging of the legs as well as big arm
movements.
 Black Bottom
 Shag
 Varsity Drag
 Sisie Q
 1930s-1940s
 Big Apple - both a partner dance and a circle dance that originated in the
Afro-American community of the United States in the beginning of the 20th
century.
 Tap - a dance performed wearing shoes fitted with metal taps, characterized
by rhythmical tapping of the toes and heels.
 Swing
 Jitterbug
 1950s
 Twist
 Ballet intermixed
 1970’s
 Psychedelic Dance
 Disco (John Travolta)

 1980’s
 New Wave
 Strutt - to walk with a stiff, pompous, seemingly affected or self-conscious
gait.
 Moonwalk
 Break Dancing
(Michael Jackson)

10. PHILIPPINE DANCES


 Igorot Dances
 Pattong - Bontoc War Dance
 Pinanyowan - A courtship dance with the use of a handkerchief or scarf.
 Inan-aninnit - a dance that reflects the search of a lost soul.
 Tebyag - symbolically done once only during the start of the playing of gongs
in a wedding ceremony.
 Pakawkaw - performed to start a ritual to call for good spirits and then
performed after a ritual to rive bad spirits.
 Rural Dances
 Itik-Itik - the steps mimic the way a duck walks, as well as the way it splashes
water on its back to attract a mate.
 Tinikling - considered by many to be the Philippines' national dance.
 Sayaw sa Bangko - performed on top of a narrow bench.
 Binasuan - an entertaining dance that is usually performed at festive social
occasions like weddings and birthdays.
 Cariñosa - the essence of the dance is the courtship between two
sweethearts.
 Muslim Dances
 Asik - a solo slave dance performed by the umbrella-bearing attendant to win
the favor of her sultan master.
 Pangalay - sometimes known as the "Sea Gypsies." The pangalay is
commonly performed at weddings and other social gatherings.
 Singkil - takes its name from the bells worn on the ankles of the Muslim
princess. One of the oldest of truly Filipino dances, the Singkil recounts the
epic legend of the "Darangan" of the Maranao people of Mindanao.
 Pangsak - a man unties a wrap from his wife-to-be's waist to wrap around her
body and dance with. Both of their faces are dotted with white paint, to hide
their identity from evil spirits.
 Pangalay sa Agong - A variation of the Tausug's traditional dance, Pangalay,
two warriors vie for the attention of a lass both using gongs to show their
prowess and skill.

 Modern Philippine Dances


Famous choreographers/dancers
 Fely Franquelli
 Alice Reyes
 Lito Calzado
 Gabriel Valenciano
 Tony Fabella
 Leonor Orosa
 Billy Crawford
 Archie Alemania
 Enrique Hill
 Gary Valenciano
 Jhong Hilario
 Maja Salvador
 Julian Trono
 Ella Cruz
 Rochelle Pangilinan
 Vhong Navarro
 Marian Rivera

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