PATHFIT

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Dance, Sports, Martial Arts,
Group Exercise and Outdoor
and Adventure Activities
In your own interpretation
what is

?
What do you observe when you
dance or when you watch
someone dance?
What do you feel when
someone dance or when
you are dancing?
 Dance as
•Dance is a form of
expression of oneself through
rhythmic movement.
Art
•Dance is perhaps the oldest
of the arts, reflecting man’s
age-old need to communicate
joy or grief by using the most
immediate instrument at his
disposal – his body.
 •is a means of expressing one’s
emotions through movement
disciplined by rhythm. It is an act of
moving rhythmically and
Dancin expressively to an accompaniment.
The word dancing came from an
g old German word “ danson” which
means to “ stretch”. Essentially, all
dancing is made up of stretching
and relaxing.
 Dance in Philippine
Setting
•Influences the diversity of
our cultural beginnings and
the drama of our everyday
lives.
•It blends the exotic customs
& cultures of many countries
races – Indonesian, Malay,
Chinese, Indian, Spanish &
American.
•Filipinos possess natural grace, an inborn love
for music and dance. Dancing was considered a
religious activity among them. They danced for
many occassions – Birth, love, courtship,
thanksgiving, wedding, war, victory, marriage,
plantin & harvesting, prosperous voyage,
recovery from sickness and healing of the sick.
•Filipinos are also lovers of rituals as shown in
ceremonial dances during town fiestas, Christmas,
Easter, Ash Wednesday.
•There were dances performed by the priests &
priestesses in the thanksgiving, for a plentiful
harvest, a victorious battle, a prosperous
voyage/recovery from sickness, to drive away evil
spirits & in invoking their gods and anitos.
 The
Elements
of

Dance
Body Ask: Who?
Answer: Dancer

Action Ask: What?

Space Ask: Where?

Time Ask: When?

E nergy Ask: how?

Patterns: upper/lower body, homologous, contralateral,

Body shapes: Symmetrical/asymmetrical, rounded, twisted, angular,

Body systems: muscles, bones, organs, breath, balance, reflexes

Inner self: senses, perceptions, emotions, thoughts, intention,

Rhythmic Pattern
Metric Breath
4/4, 2/4, etc waves
Polyrhythms word cues
Cross-rhythm event cues
Tala felt time
Timing Relationship Before, after, unison, sooner than,
faster than
Dance
genre
A dance style, or a dance genre, is simply
a certain type of dance. Although there are
hundreds of dance styles, for simplicity,
we categorize different types of dance into
a few large groups: creative rhythm, folk
dance or ethnic dance, social/ballroom
dance, recreational dance, and creative
dance.
 CREATIVE
RHYTHM
• A contemporary form of dance
that combines movement and
artistic expression, without the
need for specific training.
• Typically, creative dance
focuses on the development of
motor skills and emotional
expression, as opposed to the
aesthetics based focus of
dance in more traditional
structured settings.
 FOLK DANCE/ ETHNIC
DANCE
• also known as traditional dances based on the
fact that they are handed down from
generation to generation being learned by the
younger generations. Dances of the people
depict their way of life, culture, traditions,
ritual, occupation, emotions, etc. Folk dances
show stories of the people, products of certain
tribes, mimicry of certain animals, etc.
• Folk dances are sometimes referred to
ethnic dance because of their being ethnic
which means being a characteristic of
particular group of people or coming from
a particular place.
• Arm and body movements are usually
simple and relaxed, with hands held at the
waist or hanging at the sides and the
body swaying in rhythm to the movement.
In some dances the performers remain
separate; in others, they hold hands, link
arms, or clasp one another around the
waist. Steps are usually repeated in long
series, but they often follow quite complex
and strictly ordered floor patterns
SOCIAL/BALLROOM DANCE
• Usually done to introduce people attending formal gathering
to each other or welcome guests to a social gathering.
• Ballroom dance is typically a dance style shared between
one male, who acts as the ‘lead’, and one female, who acts as
the ‘follow’.
• Ballroom dance tends to be very formal and performed in
competitions and referred as dance sports, whereas other
partner social dances are more casual.
• Ballroom dance is sometimes referred to as dance sport, and
ballroom dance styles can be divided into two categories:
smooth dances and Latin dances.
• Smooth dances include
the foxtrot, waltz and
Viennese waltz.
• Latin dance include
rumba, samba, chacha (or
chachacha).
• Other social partner
dances include salsa,
merengue, and bachata
 RECREATIONAL
DANCE
• Refers to any form of
informal dancing that
is done primarily for
its social, educational
or health benefits
• Dances are done for
enjoyment and can be
a popular dance.
• e.g. Aerobic Dance
 • Highest phase of dance in the
CREATIVE DANCEprogram.
• Original dance pieces are created
by the choreographer and its
main purpose is to entertain.
• It is basically classed as
spectacular dance that is
performed for viewing by an
audience and requiring the
dancers to undergo diligent and
extensive training in a particular
dance discipline.
 BALLET
• ballo, ballare, meaning "to dance;
to jump about”
• theatrical dance in which a formal
academic dance technique—is
combined with other artistic
elements such as music, costume,
and stage scenery.
• was developed during the Italian
Renaissance and is a
choreographed dance set to
classical music.
 CONTEMPORARY OR
MODERN DANCE
• It draws on classical, modern
and jazz dance styles, and is
the most popular form of
dance studied today.
• Hip-hop is also referred to
contemporary dance and is
also well known as street
dance. It can be a
competitive dance, with
groups challenging each
other to a dance battle.
 Activity
• Choose at least one phase/genre of dance to
perform. Make sure to involve the elements of
dance.

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