LEARNING PACKET

Grade 12 (HOPE 3)

PE 12
Week: 3
Quarter: 1st

I. OBJECTIVES
A. Categorize the different dances according to its nature, origin, and
forms.

Learning Competency Code: PE12FF-Ia-19

SUBJECT MATTER: NATURE OF THE DIFFERENT DANCES

II. PRE- ACTIVITY

Categorize each dances according to its type.
Stage play, Salsa, Birth, Death, Tango
Ballet, Interpretative, Waltz, War, Marriage

TRADITIONAL MODERN/CONTEMPORARY BALLROOM

e.g. war

III. LET’S STUDY

Nature of the Different Dances
Dance, the movement of the body in a rhythmic way, usually to music
and within a given space, for the purpose of expressing an idea or
emotions, releasing energy, or simply taking delight in the movement
itself.
Modern and Contemporary
Modern dance is a development that is less formal that a classical
ballet. Contemporary dance incorporates the strong legwork and
balance of ballet and the trunk movements of modern dance.
Ballroom Dances
Ballroom dances comprise of a number of different dances. There
are two categories: In American style, the categories are called Smooth
and Rhythm and in International style they are called Standard and Latin.
For the most part, the Standard and Smooth categories contain the same
dances and the Latin and Rhythm categories contain basically the same
dances. These are listed in the order that they are danced in
competitions. These are the waltz, the polka, the tango, the faxtrot, the
swing, the rumba, the quick step, the paso double, the samba, the
mambo, the cha cha, and the jive.
Cheer Dance
As the name implies, cheer dance is a combination of cheering and
dancing. Components include the mandatory cheer as well as a number of
gymnastic or acrobatic moves such as cartwheels and back hand springs.
The purpose of cheer dance is usually to motivate sports teams, entertain
audience, or the actual competition.
Hip Hop/ Street Dance
Hip hop or street dance has its roots traced to New York, from the
African American and Latino American communities. It is usually
associated with rap music, a form of chanting or poetry delivered at the
speed of 16-bar measures (time frame). The term hip-hop refers to a
complex culture compromising four elements: deejaying or “turntabling”;
rapping, also known as “MCing” or “rhyming”; grafitti painting, also
known as “graf” or “writing”; and “B-boying,” which encompasses hip-hop
dance, style, and attitude, along with the sort of virile body language that
Cornel West described as “postural semantics.” (A fifth element,
“knowledge of self/consciousness,” is sometimes added to the list of hip-
hop elements, particularly by socially conscious hip-hop artists and
scholars.)
IV. LET’S REMEMBER
Note: Answer the following question in a separate sheet of
yellow pad paper (1/2 size only).

1. Write an essay about the benefits and importance of dancing to

one’s health.
2. What food nutrients needed to consume and sustain the energy
to support the physical activities?

V. LET’S TRY
EXERCISE 1 IDENTIFICATION
Directions: From the pool of words below, choose the appropriate
answer to the following descriptions.

Folk dances Ballroom dance Contemporary dance

Modern dance Nature of different dances Hip hop/ street dance

Festival dance Traditional dance Dance

Cheer dance Ethnic dance

____________1. It is comprises two categories, Latin American like,

cha cha cha, samba, rumba, jive and paso double, and American
Standard like slow waltz, Viennese waltz, quick step, tango, foxtrot.
____________2. This are dances of indigenous communities that show
cultural traits of people in specific time and place.
____________3. It is usually associated with rap music. Refers to a
complex culture compromising four elements; turntabling, rapping, also
known as “MCing” or “rhyming”, graffiti painting and etc.
____________4. It is usually seen during celebrations or fiesta.
Ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some
characteristic aspect of that community and it’s religion or cultures.
____________5. It is an expression of the body, following rhythmic
patterns and is accompanied by music.
 ____________6. It is classified according to geographical locations
and the nature of the dances. It can be: occupational dances,
religious or ceremonial dances; courtship dances; wedding dances;
festival dances; war dances; comic dances; game dances; and social
dances.
____________7. It is a type of dance that is less formal than the
classical ballet. A broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance,
primarily arising out of Germany and the United States in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries.
____________8. It is classified in to two major categories, examples
are the dances of aetas and that of muslims. It’s forms have neither
music nor melodic accompaniment.
____________9. It incorporates the trunk movements of modern
dance. employs contract-release, floor wor, fall and recovery, and
improvisation characteristics of modern dance.
____________10. It motivates sports teams, entertain audience, or
the actual competition.
EXERCISE 2 MATCHING TYPE
Direction: Match the following Nature of different dances to its examples
Column A Column B
_____1. Ballroom Dance a. Rap music
_____2. Cheer Dance b. foxtrot
_____3. Ethnic Dance c. Gymnastic
_____4. Hip hop Dance d. Courtship dance
_____5. Folk Dance e. Aeta dance
f. Traditional

EXERCISE 3 MULTIPLE CHOICE

Directions: Encircle the correct answer
1. A development that is less formal than classical ballet.
a. Aeta dance c. Courtship dance
b. Cheer dance d. Modern dance
2. Associated with rap music and has a speed of 16-bar measures
(time frame).
a. Ballroom dance c. Modern dance
b. Hip hop dance d. Cheer dance
3. An expression of the body, following Rhythmic patterns.
a. Festival dance c. Dance
b. Folk dance d. Contemporary dance
4. Classified to geographical venues and the nature of dances.
a. Festival dance c. Geographical dance
b. Folk dance d. Nature of the different dance
5. Dances of indigenous communities that show cultural traits of
people in a specific time and place.
a. Traditional dance c. Ballroom dance
b. H.O.P.E d. Folk dance
6. Ethnic dance is classified into two major categories. What are those
categories?
a. Christian and Non-Christian c. Catholic and Muslim
b. Christian and Catholic d. Christian and Muslim
7. It is usually to motivate sports teams, entertain audience, or the
actual competition.
a. Hip hop c. Hip hop
b. Cheer dance d. Festival dance
8. It is from the primitive man expressing emotions in such events as
birth, death, marriage, war among other things, dance has evolved
to modern forms of social dancing.
a. H.O.P.E c. Traditional Dance
b. ‘Dances by the different Nature d. Nature of different dances
9. It is comprise of different number of dance
a. Ballroom dances c. Festival dances
b. Hip hop dances d. Cheer dances
10. It is usually celebrate good harvest or good fortune
a. Muslim dances c. Farmer dances
b. Harvest dances d. Festival dances