PHYSICAL EDUCATION 3rd Quarter Notetaking

Festival dances
- are cultural dances performed to the strong beats of percussion instruments by a community
of sharing the same culture usually done in honor of Patron Saint or in thanksgiving of a
bountiful harvest.
- Draw the people’s culture by portraying the people’s ways of life through
movements, costumes and implements inherent to their place.
Festival dances may be religious or secular in nature.
1. Religious Festivals – are done in honor of a certain religious icon or saint of a particular
place

2. Secular Festivals – celebrated in thanksgiving or celebration of people’s industry

and bountiful harvest.

Basic Dance Movements

Locomotor Movements
1. Step – basis of all locomotor movements. Prepared you to move in any direction .
Transfer of weight from 1 foot to the other
2. Walk – series of steps executed by both feet alternately in any direction.
3. Run – series of walks executed quickly in any direction wherein only one foot stays on
the ground while the other is off the ground.
4. Jump – simply describe by having both feet lose its contact with the ground.
Non Locomotor Movements – performed in one point in space without transferring to another
point.
1. Flexion – act of decreasing the angle of a joint. To ben.
2. Extension- opposite of flexion, extending if you are increasing the angle of a
joint. Stretching is another word for extension
3. Contraction – muscle movement done when it shortens, narrows and tightens
using sufficient amount of energy.
4. Release – muscle movement opposite to contration
5. Collapse – drop the exertion of energy into body segment
6. Recover – opposite of collapse. Regain the energy into a body segment.
7. Rotation- move a body segment allowing it to complete a circle its motion
8. Twist – move a body from an axis halfway front or back or quarter to the right or left
9. Pivot – change the position of the feet or any body part that carries the body’s
weight allowing the body face in less than 360
degrees turn
10.Turn – move in turning movement with a
base of support, usually a pointed foot, the
other raised, while equilibrium is maintained
until the completion.