PATHFIT 3 them.

They danced for many occasions –

DANCE, SPORTS, MARTIAL ARTS, GROUP
EXERCISE, AND OUTDOOR AND
ADVENTURE ACTIVITIES
TOPIC 1: DANCE
Birth, love, courtship, thanksgiving,
wedding, war, victory, marriage, planting &
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.

● In your own interpretation, what There were dances performed by the

is DANCE?
● What do you observe when you
dance or when you watch
someone dance?
● What do you feel when
someone dances or when you
are dancing?
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

DANCE AS ART Influences the diversity of our cultural

beginnings and the drama of our everyday
Dance is a form of expression of oneself lives.
through rhythmic movement.

Dance is perhaps the oldest of the arts, BODY Who? Dancer

reflecting man’s age-old need to
communicate joy or grief by using the most ACTION What? moves
immediate instrument at his disposal – his
body. SPACE Where? through
space
DANCING
TIME When? and time
is a means of expressing one’s emotions
through movement disciplined by rhythm. ENERGY How? with
It is an act of moving rhythmically and energy
expressively to an accompaniment. The
word dancing came from an old German BODY
word “ danson” which means to “ stretch”.
Essentially, all dancing is made up of Parts of the Body: Head, eyes, torso,
stretching and relaxing. shoulders, fingers, legs, feet, etc
Patterns: upper/lower body, homologous,
contralateral,
DANCE IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY midline
Body shapes: Symmetrical/asymmetrical,
Influences the diversity of our cultural rounded, twisted, angular, arabesque
beginnings and the drama of our everyday Body systems: muscles, bones, organs,
lives. breath, balance, reflexes
Inner self: senses, perceptions, emotions,
It blends the exotic customs & cultures of thoughts, intention, imagination
many countries' races – Indonesian,
Malay, Chinese, Indian, Spanish & ACTION
American.
Locomotor (Travelling): Slide, Walk, Run,
Filipinos possess natural grace, an inborn Hop, Turn, Somersault, Gallop, Skip,
love for music and dance. Dancing was Crawl, Jump, Roll, Leap
considered a religious activity among
Non-Locomotor (Axial): Swing, Stretch,
Rock, Bend, Tip, Twist, Shake, Rise, sudden sustained
Suspend, Fall
strong gentle
SPACE
heavy light
Size: large, small, narrow, wide
Level: high, medium, low tight loose
Place: on the spot (personal space),
through the space (general space),
bound (controlled) free
upstage/downstage, in place, traveling
Direction: forward/backward, sideways,
diagonal, right/left, rotating Energy Qualities: vigorous, languid,
Pathway: traveling, traced in air, curved, furious, melting, droopy, wild, lightly, jerkily,
straight, angular, zig-zag, random, etc. sneakily, timidly, proudly, sharp, smooth,
Relationships: in front, beside, behind, sudden, sustained, etc.
over, under, alone, connected, near, far,
individual, and group proximity to object
DANCE GENRE

TIME A dance style, or a dance genre, is simply

a certain type of dance. Although there are
● METERED hundreds of dance styles, for simplicity, we
Duration: brief — long categorize different types of dance into a
Speed: fast — slow few large groups: creative rhythm, folk
Beat: steady — uneven dance or ethnic dance, social/ballroom
Tempo: quick — slow dance, recreational dance, and creative
Accent: single — multiple dance.
on beat — syncopated
Predictable — unpredictable
CREATIVE RHYTHM
● RHYTHMIC PATTERN
A contemporary form of dance that
Patterned Free
combines movement and artistic
expression, without the need for specific
Metric breath training.

4/4, 2/4, etc. waves Typically, creative dance focuses on the

development of motor skills and emotional
Polyrhythms word cues expression, as opposed to the aesthetics
based focus of dance in more traditional
Cross-rhythm event cues structured settings.

Tala felt time FOLK DANCE/ETHNIC DANCE

● TIMING RELATIONSHIP: before, after, Also known as traditional dances based on

unison, sooner than, faster than the fact that they are handed down from
generation to generation being learned by
the younger generations. Dances of the
ENERGY people depict their way of life, culture,
traditions, ritual, occupation, emotions, etc.
Folk dances show stories of the people,
sharp smooth 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 a
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 gatherings 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 to as dance sports, whereas other
partner social dances are more casual.
Ballroom dance is sometimes referred to
as a 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 dances 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
CREATIVE DANCE
Highest phase of dance in the program.
Original dance pieces are created by the
choreographer and its main purpose is to
entertain.
It is basically classed as a spectacular
dance that is performed for viewing by an
audience and requires 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.
It 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 as
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.