Pe Dance 1st Sem Prelims 2024 PDF

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This document appears to be the first page of a dance exam/assessment for a first-semester course in 2024, covering introductory aspects of dance, such as the elements of dance, types of dance, and the history of dance.

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DANCE FIRST SEMESTER: Preliminary Exams 2024 ○ Provides the necessary daily, WHAT IS DANCE? physical fitness recommendations...

DANCE FIRST SEMESTER: Preliminary Exams 2024 ○ Provides the necessary daily, WHAT IS DANCE? physical fitness recommendations ★ SOCIAL INVOLVEMENT ○ Enables one to meet new people ★ One of the oldest of the arts; believed ★ FUN ACTIVITY AND RELAXATION that dance was performed by tribal societies for battle victory and hunting ○No. 1 rule is to find joy and fun in success what we are doing. ★ The movement of the body in a ★ CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION rhythmical manner usually accompanied ○ Dancers will work on creating with music within a given space shapes and movements through ★ An art form that uses movement to imagination and exploration express ideas, feelings, and stories ★ A form of nonverbal communication that ELEMENTS OF DANCE can be both spontaneous and structured ★ SPACE CHARACTERISTICS OF DANCE ○ The area covered by the dance movements ★ MOVEMENT Directions: forward, ○Involves the controlled use of the backward, sideways up, body to create movement and down, etc patterns Level: distance from the ★ RHYTHM floor (high, medium, low) ○Often performed to music, and the Pathways: patterns that the movement are synchronized with body makes it moves the music through space or on the ★ EXPRESSION floor (diagonal, zigzag, ○ A powerful way to express circle, etc) emotions, stories, and ideas Shape: the design of the body as it exists in space ★ TIME IMPORTANCE OF DANCE ○ How fast or slow (tempo); ○ Even or uneven beat and long or ★ BUILDS CONFIDENCE short (duration) ○ Great way to connect emotionally ○The movement is rhythm, freezes with an audience. Expression, acceleration, deceleration smiling, and reflection is promoted ★ ENERGY ○ Quality, force, effort ★ HEALTH ★ BODY PAGE 1 ○Zones of the body, shapes, and ○ Known as sacred or spiritual dance base ○ A form of movement and ★ ACTION expression that holds significance ○ Locomotor (moving place to place) within the context of religious or & Non-locomotor (movement of spiritual practies the body) movements ○ Rooted in ritualistic traditions, often employed as a means of worship, storytelling, and TYPES OF DANCE communion with the divine ○ Serves a dual purpose, both as a ★ SOCIAL DANCE mode of physical expressions and ○ Primarily intended for social as a way to convey religious interaction, recreation, and narratives, values, and symbolism enjoyment ○ Typically practiced in more casual and informal settings such as OVERVIEW OF DANCE HISTORY social gatherings, parties, clubs, or community events ★ PRIMITIVE PERIOD ○Often involve couples or groups of ○Evidence of dance dates back to people dancing together paleolithic period, seen through ★ PERFORMANCE DANCE rock paintings depicting dance ○ A style of dance that is specifically ★ ANCIENT PERIOD created and executed for an ○ Aesthetic purposes of the art has audience been acknowledged ○ This dance is rehearsed, ○They questioned the way the choreographed, and staged to be dance looked and meant; what the prosented movements represented and how ○Primary focus is to convey artistic they may be interpreted expression, storytelling, or a ★ MEDIEVAL PERIOD particular theme to an audience ○ Prevalent in the medieval era, ★ PROTEST DANCE otherwise known as the Middle ○ A form of expressive movement Ages that serves as a vehicle for social ○The art of Belly Dancing came into and political activism play ○ Rooted in the idea that dance can ★ RENAISSANCE PERIOD be powerful tool for dissent and ○ Folk dance, court dancing, and the advocacy accompaniment of music revived ○ Often utilized to convey messages, dance raise awareness, and protest ○It was beginning to be seen as an against various social injustices or actual art as opposed to a cultural political issues pastime or ritualistuc necessity ○ Can be both a response to specific ★ CONTEMPORARY PERIOD events or a continuous expression ○ Eastern countries continued of resistance against systemic traditional performances while the problems western civilizations developed ★ RELIGIOUS DANCE new, invigorating genres ○ Contemporary and classical ballet ○ Often known for unpredictable and thrived and modern, tap, jazz, and disordered changes in speed and hip-hop shortly infiltrated life as rhythm throughout a performance we know it ★ HIP-HOP ○ Refers to a range of street dances that developed in relation to hip DANCE CLASSIFICATIONS hop music and culture; dtes back to the early 1970s in New York and California, evolving out of Funk GENRES OF DANCE and the development of of break beat ★ BALLET ○ Main styles include Breaking, ○ Developed during the Italian Locking and Popping, with renaissance, choreographed with derivative styles emerging out of classical music these including Memphis Jookin’, ○ Ballet productions vary between Turfing, Jerkin’ and Krumping using elaborate costumes and ○ Performed in outdoor spaces, in staging & using minimal costuming dance studios competitively and bare staging ○ Often improvisational with dance ○ Is a widespread, highly technical cres challenging each other to form of dance with subgenres dance battles including classic, romantic, ★ JAZZ neoclassical and contemporary ○ Roots in 17th century African ★ BALLROOM traditions, brought to the Americas ○ A type of partner dance originating via Atlantic slave trade at the end of the 16th century in ○ Known for its improvisational and France dramatic body movements, ○ Popular form of competitive dance growing in popularity early 20th or dancesport century jazz clubs ○ Dances with these categories ★ TAP DANCING include the waltz, tango and ○ Type of percussive dance foxtrot, and pasodoble, bolero and characterized by the “tap” of shoes samba hitting the floor ★ CONTEMPORARY ○ Tap dancers often wear metal ○ Developed during the mid-20th “taps” on the heel and toe to century; one of the most popular accentuate the sound and technical forms of dance ○ Often performed as part of musical studied and performed theatre, tap dancing often focuses professionally on choreography and formations ○ Evolved to incorporate many ○ Characterizes a range of dances characteristics of a broader range including flamenco, rhythm, of dance forms classical, broadway and ○ Known for its emphasis on strong postmodern tap torso and legwork, contract and ★ FOLK DANCE release, fall and recovery and floor ○ Celebrated worldwide with people work of different cultures and religions using various forms of folk dance; PAGE 1 ○ To portray emotions, stories, ○ Is a true reflection of daily life in historical events or uneven aspects past centuries while enchanting of daily life modern audiences at the same ○ Commonly held at public events, time where people can participate in ★ TINIKLING regardless of whether they are ○ History: oldest traditional filipino professional or beginners. dances, performed using long ○ Also accompanied by traditional bamboo poles; music to further enhance the ○ Originates on the island of Leyte, cultural experience taking its name from the tikling ○ Types of folk dance include: bird; Bharatanatyam (India), Samba ○ Movements are meant to imitate (Brazil) and Hula (Hawaii) the bird as it steps through its ★ MODERN DANCE marshy habitat ○ Considered a broad genre of ★ CARIÑOSA dance, primarily arising from ○ Much-loved folk dance, spanish in western countries during the late origin and is regarded as a national 1900s dance by scholars; ○ Purpose of modern dance is to rely ○ Introduced by the spaniards when on the dancer’s interpretation of they arrived in the 16th century the music and feeling to guide ○ The shy characteristic behaviour of movements the female dancer is said to ○ Dancers can choose a piece of represent the mannerisms of music and use unconventional filipina women movements to convey emotions or ★ SAYAW SA BANGKO to tell a meaningful story ○ Originates from Pangasinan and researched by Jovita Sison HISTORY OF DANCING IN PH ○ Dancers show skill in staying up the bench as they exchange places by moving their way around ★ BEFORE THE SPANISH ★ BINASUAN ○ Dances expresses tribe’s love of ○ Derived its name from a nature and gratitude to the gods. Pangasinan phrase that literally ○ Thanksgiving, worship and prayers translates to mean “with the use of for a bountiful harvest mark the a drinking glass” style of these dances. ★ PANDANGGO SA ILAW ★ VOYAGE TO MINDANAO ○ Popular for its grace abd balance, ○ The dances of the muslims, known originating from Lubang Islang, as Moros, are alluring and colorful. Mindoro ○ The Moros use languid arm ○ Pandaggo comes from the spanish movements to imitate the world word fandango around them ○ Involves the presence of 3 oil lamps, balanced on the head and PHILIPPINE FOLK DANCE back of each hand. ★ MAGLALATIK ○ War dance representing in a ○ The history of Ph Folk Dancing picture a battle between the Moros incorporates influences from and the Christian over the latik immigrantds and conquerors while at the same time maintaining distinctly Filipino roots ★ KURATSA (Courtship Dance) ○ Commonly performed during festivals in Bohol and other Visayan towns ○ This dance portrays a young playful couple attempting to get each other’s attention–peformed in a moderate waltz style ★ POLKABAL ○ Named in the late 1800s: the polka and balse (waltz) ○ The steps of this dance are identified as the luksong uwak (jumping crow), wagayway (fluttering), hardin (garden), punta y tacon (heel and toe), corrida (bullfight), paseo (leisurely walk), ensayo (practice), contragansa (hop-cross) and the contragansa doble (double hop cross). ★ HABANERA SOLTERA ○ Dance that got its start in Cuba ○ Mix of Cuban, spanish, and african rhythms and dance moves PAGE 1

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