HOPE-REVIEWER

WHAT IS DANCE?

Differs from athletics or other daily activities because it focuses primarily on aesthetic or even
entertaining experience.

Dance - activity which can take many forms and fill many different needs. It can be
recreation, entertainment, education, therapy, and religion.

Dance - express emotion or a feeling

The words "Dance" and "Dancing" came from an old German word "Danson," which means
"To Move and to Stretch.”

Dance or Danson - every time you move you are dancing.

DO YOU KNOW WHERE DANCES COME FROM?

“Before man can do anything, he must draw breath, he must move. Movement is the source
and condition of life. To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more
powerful. This power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking” - Agnes de Mille
(1963)

Dance can be seen among all people and civilizations of the world. Dances thrived at different
periods of history and mostly were a result of intercultural exchange and contact. The origins
of dance are rooted in the prehistoric past.
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 has been major form of religious ritual and social expression within primitive
cultures.
 It was used as a way of expressing and reinforcing tribal unity and strength, as an
approach for courtship and mating, and as means of worship, communication, and
therapeutic experience.
 It was said that the first use of dance was a gesture in order to communicate.

Dance was also commonly used in education.

Greek philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates strongly supported this art as an
integration of the body and soul.

Plato immensely gave importance to dance in education as stated in his Elucidation on the
Laws.

Plato highlighted the two kinds of dance and music:

 Noble (fine and honorable)

 Ignoble (imitating what is means or ugly).

SPECIFIC BENEFITS OF DANCES

Dancing is one of the oldest and most popular forms of exercise. Several forms of dancing are
considered aerobic since they entail about an hour of “continuous exercises, choreographed
to music”.

PHYSICAL:

When done regularly, dancing is a good way to develop cardiovascular and muscular
endurance, body composition, as well as balance and flexibility.
PHYSICAL BENEFITS:

 Develops Cardiovascular and Muscular Endurance.

 Improves Coordination, Balance, Flexibility, and Body Composition.
 Lower risk of Cardiovascular diseases.
 Lower body mass index.
 Lowers resting heart rate.
 Improves lipid metabolism.
 Enable joint mobility (hip motion and spine flexibility)
 Helps improve and maintain bone density, thus avoiding Osteoporosis.
 Helps recover coordination and neuromuscular skills after injury

MENTAL/EMOTIONAL:

 also suggested that dance can be used as intervention in mental health in nursing. They
revealed that dance can offer “an acceptable way to release emotional and physical
pressure” Ravelin et al. (2006, p.3112)
 Helps keeps our brains sharp.
 Decrease incidence of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
 Decrease depressive symptoms
 Increase self-esteem and improve body (self) image
 Aids in releasing emotional and physical tension

SOCIAL:

Dance provides a unique opportunity for meaningful group involvement as it encourages

intense, positive social interaction, and interpersonal relationships in a working group. They
believe that “it contributes to each individual’s potential for the fullest possible self-
actualization in society”.

SOCIAL BENEFITS:

 Gives sense of togetherness within a group.

 Encourages positive social interaction and interpersonal relationship in a group.
 Contributes to individual’s potential for self-actualization in society.

CULTURE:

Dance promotes a place or a country’s rich culture through showing the different cultural
dances. The people around the world are bought to “a closer understanding of the lives of the
people represented and to appreciation of their respective folk cultures”

CULTURAL BENEFITS:

 Promotes Cultural Values

PERSONAL BARRIERS:

With technological advances and conveniences, people’s lives have in many ways became
increasingly easier, as well as less active. In addition, people have many personal reasons or
explanations for being inactive. The most common reasons adults don't adopt more physically
active lifestyles are cited as:

 Insufficient time to exercise

  Inconvenience of exercise
 Lack of self-motivation
 Non-Enjoyment of exercise
 Boredom with exercise
 Lack of Confidence in their ability to be physically active(low self-efficacy)
 Fear of being Injured or having been injured recently
 Lack of self -management skills, such as the ability to set personal goals, monitor
progress, or reward progress toward such goal
 Lack of encouragement, support,or companionship from family and friends.
 Non-availability of parks, sidewalks, bicycle trails, or safe and pleasant walking.
 Paths close to home or the work place.

THE TOP THREE BARRIER:

 Energy
 Time
 Motivation

Folk Dance – Tradition, culture, and history series of physical movements that are
accompanied in most cases by music, and which relate to the common people within a given
culture.

Examples:

 Itik-Itik
 Tinikling
 Sayaw sa bangko
 Pandanggo sa Ilaw
 Etc…

Ethnic Dance - is any dance form which can be identified as originating with an ethnic culture
and expressing the movement aesthetics of that culture
Examples:

• Binaylan
• Binalanak
• Dugso
• Pinagkabula
• Pinegket
• Talupak
• Tinambol

Fundamentals – Reflect how dancers want to communicate their intentions to partners or

audiences.

Steps:

 1-2
 3-4
 5-6
 7
 8