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Lesson Dance

Dance is an expression of the body moving rhythmically to music. It has been practiced for religious, social, and entertainment purposes throughout history. There are many health benefits to dance, including improved cardiovascular health, flexibility, and social well-being. The elements of dance include the body and its movements, use of space, timing with music, energy or force of movements, and shapes the body makes. Understanding these elements helps describe and analyze dance performances.

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Lesson Dance

Dance is an expression of the body moving rhythmically to music. It has been practiced for religious, social, and entertainment purposes throughout history. There are many health benefits to dance, including improved cardiovascular health, flexibility, and social well-being. The elements of dance include the body and its movements, use of space, timing with music, energy or force of movements, and shapes the body makes. Understanding these elements helps describe and analyze dance performances.

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FITNESS EXERCISE-

DANCE
PHED 21
WHAT IS DANCE?
• Dance is an expression of the body following rhythmic patterns and is
accompanied by music. It differs from athletics or other daily activities
because it focuses primarily on “aesthetic or even entertaining experience.
Dance is one of the oldest and most popular form of exercise.
WHY PEOPLE DANCE?
a.To please the Gods
b.To please others
c.To please themselves or self-expression
d. To build community within an ethnic group or
social interaction
c.
BRIEF HISTORY AND NATURE OF DANCE:
Pre-Historic Era
*religiousrituals *courtship/mating *dancers are valuable
*communication *therapeutic *dance as an art
*tribal unity

Pre-Christian Era
Mediterranean Ancient Rome:
Ancient Egypt: *less importance to dancing
*wall paintings *literary records *brutal and sensationalize
Ancient Greek: *dancers are slaves/captives
*religious expression *military education *corruption
*entertainment/display *underground dancers
*Plato/Aristotle/Socrates
-noble and ignoble
BRIEF HISTORY AND NATURE OF DANCE:
Catholic Era
* religious ceremonies
*approved of dancing
Dark /Middle Ages
*performed in village squares/castles
*social dancing
*court dances
*peasants dance in grass
Early Renaissance /Europe
*contemporary dances
*ballet
*dancers are valuable
*dance as an art
*wholly accepted
BENEFITS OF DANCE AND CREATIVE MOVEMENTS
1.Physical
Develop cardiovascular/muscular endurance Balance
Body composition Flexibility
Coordination Lower risk of Cardiovascular diseases
2. Mental/Emotional
Release emotional pressure Psychological health benefits
Keep brain sharp Activity with dementia condition
3. Social
Intense and positive social interaction Interpersonal relationships
Sense of togetherness Self-actualization in society
4. Cultural
Promotes country’s rich culture Values one’s culture
Closer understanding of the lives of the people
IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND AND TALK ABOUT THE ELEMENTS OF DANCE, WE NEED FIRST TO BE ABLE TO
DESCRIBE WHAT WE SEE WHEN WE WATCH A VIDEO OR A LIVE PRESENTATION OF DANCE. LOOK AT THE
PHOTO:

*WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?


*WHAT QUESTIONS DOES THIS WORK OF INQUIRY RAISE FOR YOU?
*WHAT MEANING DOES IT CONVEY TO YOU?
ELEMENTS OF DANCE
1. BODY
• The art of dance takes place in and through the human body. In dance, the body is the
mobile figure or shape, felt by the dancer, seen by others. The body is sometimes relatively
still and sometimes changing as the dancer moves in place or travels through the dance
area. Dancers may emphasize specific parts of their body in a dance phrase or their whole
body.
•When we look at a dancer’s whole body we might consider the overall shape design; is it
symmetrical? Twisted? Another way to describe the body in dance is to consider the body
systems--muscles, bones, organs, breath, balance, reflexes. We could describe how the
skeletal system or breath is used, for example. The body is the conduit between the inner
realm of intentions, ideas, emotions and identity and the outer realm of expression and
communication. Whether watching dance or dancing ourselves, we shift back and forth
between the inner-outer sense of body.
• 
ELEMENTS OF DANCE
2. ACTION
• is any human movement included in the act of dancing— it can include dance
steps, facial movements, partner lifts, gestures, and even everyday
movements such as walking. Dance is made up of streams of movement and
pauses, so action refers not only to steps and sequences, but also to pauses
and moments of relative stillness.
ELEMENTS OF DANCE

3. SPACE- the area the performers occupy and where they move
a. Direction- dance movements can travel in any direction. Forward, side, backward, diagonal,
circular and so on. Can also face any direction while executing a single movement or several
phrase.
b. Size- movements can be varied by doing larger or smaller actions.
c. Level- movements can be done in high, medium or low level.
d. Focus- performers may change their focus by looking at different directions .

* This figure shows the use of spatial elements. (a) shows how movement is done in different sides while
(b) shows how to vary focus. Both shows how movement is done in different levels.
ELEMENTS OF DANCE
4. TIME- the keyword for the element of time is “when”.The
movement in timing may be executed in :

a. rhythmic patterns- metered or free rhythm


b. beat/pulse- performers move the tempo of an underlying sound
c. patterns- 2/4 or 3/4
d. tempo- speed
e. simultaneous or sequential timing
ELEMENTS OF DANCE
5. ENERGY- is about “how”- it refers to the force of an action and can mean
both the physical energy and psychic energy that drive and characterizes
movement. Six qualities of dance energies are:
a. Sustained- smoothly, continuously with flow and control. Does not have a
beginning and ending
b. percussive- explosives or sharp in contrast to sustained and with clear
beginning and ending.
c. vibratory- trembling and shaking, a faster version of percussive.
d. swinging- curved line or an arc in space, movements are relaxed.
e. suspended- perched in space or hanging on air. Ex. Holding a raised leg
f. collapsing- released in tension and gradually or abruptly giving in to gravity
ELEMENTS OF DANCE
6. BODILY SHAPES- It refers to how the entire body is molded in space. The body can be rounded,
angular or combination of two, wide to narrow, high to low.

a. symmetrical- identical or similar on both sides

b. assymetrical- unbalanced shape, completely different from each other.

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