DANCE

INTRODUCTION
 DANCE
 Is rhythmic and expressive body movements, usually coordinated into a pattern
and adapted to musical accompaniment.
 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.
 Means of expressing one’s emotion through movement disciplined by rhythm.
 The word “dancing” came from an old German word “danson” which means “to
stretch”.
 VALUES and Benefits from Dancing

1. It stimulates the creative potential

2. It promotes self and social awareness in an all-involving way
3. It serves the interest of health
 The Elements of Dance 
• are the foundational concepts and vocabulary that help students develop
movement skills and understand dance as an artistic practice. 

The acronym BASTE helps students remember the elements: 

      Body    
      Action    
      Space     
      Time    
      Energy

This framework is a way to discuss any kind of movement. While different

dance styles call for specialized skills and stylization choices, the underlying
elements of dance  are visible in all dance experiences. 
BODY is the mobile figure or shape, felt by the ACTION is any human movement included in the act
dancer, seen by others. Dancers may emphasize of dancing— it can include dance steps, facial movements,
specific parts of their body in a dance phrase or use partner lifts, gestures, and even everyday movements such
their whole body all at once. as walking.

Dancers interact with SPACE in myriad ways. They

may stay in one place or they may travel from one
place to another. They may alter the direction, level,
size, and pathways of their movements. 
 The movements in TIMING may be executed in
varying tempo (speed). Performers move with the
tempo of an underlying sound, known as beat or pulse

ENERGY is about how the movement happens.

 Choices about energy include variations in movement
flow and the use of force, tension, and weight.