Active Recreation:

Dance & Health Benefits

 Active Recreation is a therapeutic refreshment of
relaxations of one’s body and mind. Activities done for this
purpose are called recreational activities. Its main objective is
revitalized the physical, mental, social, and emotional aspects
of a person.
 Dance is a recreational activity that can develop our physical,
mental, social, and emotional health. Dancing as part of our lifestyle can
surely sustain our fitness. But it should be coupled with proper eating
habits and weight management for a person to live a healthy lifestyle.
 Dance is defined in different ways by
different people or authors of the art form.
• Dance transforms images, ideas and feelings into sequences of
movement that are personally and socially significant.
• Dance is a performance art form consisting of purposefully selected
sequences of human movement that has aesthetic and symbolic
value and is acknowledge as dance within a culture.
• Dance, the movements of the body in a rhythmic way, usually to
music and within a given space, for the purpose of expressing an
idea or emotion, releasing energy, or simply taking delight in the
movement itself.
• Dance is a broadly conceived as physical movement organized into
patterns in time and space.
Have you wondered where the dance came
from? Or when did it start?

Who is the first person who learns to dance?

HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS OF DANCE
• Plato concurred with his master Socrates that every educated
man should know how to dance gracefully-underscoring the manly
exercises that kept a body strong, supple and ready to do its duty are
all taken from the training called weapon dance or war dance.
• From among the Greeks, dancing was associated with
Dionysian merrymaking, as evidence on vase paintings
and stone carvings as presented by scientist of the time.
 The early Christians included their teachings
a love-hate relationship to the body, as they could
not accommodate the dancing body to their
worship.
On other hand, Dances are unlike paintings
or sculpture. Apparently and in certain cultural
context, they are created, appreciated and
analyzed as art works of human movement.
 Native dances reflect most of the purposes.
It can be ritualistic or ceremonial nature
• The war dance, expressing prayer for success and thanksgiving for victory.
• The dance of exorcism or healing, performed by shamans to drive out evil
spirits;
• The dance of invocation, calling on the gods for help in farming, hunting, the
fertility of human beings and animals, and other tribal concerns;
• Initiation dances for secret societies;
• Mimetic dances, illustrating events in tribal history, legends, or mythology;
• Dances representing cosmic processes;
• The dance of courtship, an invocation for success of love;
• Dance of religious ecstasy, in which hypnotic or trance-like states are induce.
 Dance teaches the importance of
movement and fitness in the variety of
reasons. Dancers learn to coordinate
muscles to move through proper
positions and can be a way to stay fit
for people of all ages, shapes, and
sizes. Dance is an enjoyable health-
promoting physical activity which
many people include into their lifestyle
today.
Not only is it important physically
but contributes to one’s mental health
and social interactions.
 Dances can be classified as Folk or
Native, Foreign, Folk, Social, Ballroom,
creative or interpretative, contemporary, street
dance, Hip-hop, and other similar forms.
Benefits of Dancing
• Improve condition of your heart and lungs
• Increase muscular strength, endurance and motor fitness
• Increase aerobic fitness
• Improve muscle tone and strength
• Weight management
• Stronger bones and reduce osteoporosis
• Better condition, agility and flexibility
• Improve balance and spatial awareness
• Increase physical confidence
• Improved mental functions
 Direction: Create a colorful slogan about “Health in Dancing”. These
includes the benefits of dancing to our health.

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Rubric
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