OLFU Vision & Mission PDF

# OLFU Vision & Mission ## Vision: A premier inclusive university of choice aspiring to improve man as man by developing individuals through a legacy of excellent education and compassionate value formation. ## Mission: The Our Lady of Fatima University, together with Fatima Medical Science Founda...

# OLFU Vision & Mission ## Vision: A premier inclusive university of choice aspiring to improve man as man by developing individuals through a legacy of excellent education and compassionate value formation. ## Mission: The Our Lady of Fatima University, together with Fatima Medical Science Foundation, Inc., is dedicated to the improvement of man as man through the holistic formation of individuals imbued with knowledge, skills, and virtues. # Terminologies - **Over:** Crossing one foot over the other - **Ball change:** Step onto the ball of one foot (on & count), step and/or change weight onto the other foot. (Often accompanied by a previous step, eg: kick-ball-change) - **Accent:** Focus on a given action or movement. - **Hold:** Keep your place for the given music counts before taking another move. - **Ankle rock:** With feet crossed and ankles held onto the forward foot by pressure through rock. Shift to foot, shift weight. - **Corner turn:** Turn left forward, step right to right, turn left 90°, step back left Turn left at 90°, step forward right foot. - **Chassé:** A syncopated pattern of side steps where the feet never pass. Normally three steps but can be extended. (A 2-beat chasse is known as a Shuffle). - **Point:** Is used when touching toe sideways, front or backwards. - **Step:** The term used to describe a foot motion with weight change. # Line Dance (History/Origin) Line dancing, as it's name implies, is people dancing in line to the music. - From the adaptation of polka and waltz by American immigrants in the 1800's which evolved into square dance to folk dance, the origins of that format of dance are widespread. - While many common dances of line are set to country music, the dances of first line did not derive from country-western dance. It is believed that line dancing originated from folk dancing which has many similarities. - **Contra dancing**, a style of American folk dance in which the dancers style two parallel lines and execute a sequence of dance movements with different partners down the length of the line, possibly influence tremendously the line dancing steps we learned today. # Retro Pop Dance Styles & Brief History - One of the famous dances is called **hustle** during the 1970's. - During the 1980's and 1990's, line dances started being created for popular country songs. One illustration is a dance performed for the 1992 smash hit **“Achy Breaky Heart“** by Billy Ray Cyrus. - Mostly during 1990's, even conventional music began to see an upswing throughout line dances, with **“the Macarena“** acting as a kind of hybrid folk-rock dance number that took the world by surprise. - Retro music become popular because of the large dancing movement all around the world. It was popularized in the late 1960s as an alternative music styles preferred by the youth. - Funk, hip hop and soul are the famous types of dance flourished in the North America. - During the mid-1970s to early 1980s, Retro Pop Dance reached its peak as a form of entertainment of the youngsters of their various backgrounds. - The origin of the **Retro Pop Dance** can be traced and identified through the formation of the night clubs - discotheques where Nazi occupied Paris. - The radio presenters are usually called as **disc jockey** or commonly known as **DJ**, wherein they played Jazz records and the like. - To name the few musical hits of disco performers such as Donna Summer, Boney M, Bee Gees, The Tramps, Chic and Gloria Gaynor which inspired by the Hollywood films (Saturday Night and Thanks God It's Friday). - In the Philippine setting, retro pop music or disco songs are as follows: Bongga Ka 'Day, Annie Batungbakal, Manila, Pers Lab, Langit Na Naman, Dying To Tell You, Bitin Sa Iyo, and Beh, Buti Nga was popularized by the The Hotdog band. - After the decline of disco music, practitioners used this dance for the fitness exercises. # Terminologies - **Retro Dance**: Covers a broad range of blues based styles developed during the 1930s to 1950s. These dance styles share similar patterns of movement, composition, and core dance content but vary with respect to their characterization, emphasis and structure to provide clearly related but distinct dances. # Etiquette in Dance Every dance class that a student will attend have their own rules or policies to follow. These rules are ways to make the dance session more productive and successful. Here are some etiquette to follow: - Always pay attention to your dance instructor. It is essential to listen to every detail in order to familiarize with the lessons easily. - Wearing the appropriate dance attire. It should be observed from time to time in order to avoid destruction while attending the classes. - Attending classes on time. It is more on professionalism aspect that every student should possess at all times. The students should be in the class on or before the session will begin. For this reason, they can have ample time to prepare their needs during the classes. - Respect one another. It is a common virtue that students should follow whenever they are in the class. - Always aim for the BEST. Keep on moving and practicing until you make it perfect. *"WHEN YOU BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. WISHING YOU THE BEST OF LUCK ON YOUR EXAM!"*