BALLROOM DANCE Flashcards
- partnership dance where couples, using
step-patterns, move rhythmically,
expressing characteristics of music - Ballare (latin) to dance
- 2 individuals: Leader (M) and Follower (F)
BALLROOM DANCE
HISTORY OF BALLROOM DANCE
● Origin: early 20th century when West End
establishments were developing art of
ballroom dancing
● Leading Board: Imperial Society of
Teachers of Dancing (ISTD) 1904
First Lady, world class
champion of ballroom
Josephine Bradley:
Modern Ballroom Dance Faculty of
the Imperial Society
Lady Humphries
found English style
GK Anderson:
Technique of
Ballroom Dancing
Alex Moore
SOCIAL
Partner
Feel/Exp
Flexibly adaptive
Enjoy
Not fixed
COMPETITIVE
Judges
Appearance
Expansive rigorously correct
Champion satisfied
Fixed choreo
EXHIBITION
Audience
Looks
varies on dance forms
Confidence enthusiast
Usually
● For ballroom dancing, remember your
partners have their own distinctive styles
also.
● Cultivate flexibility
● Be able to adapt your style
● You are not surrendering your individuality,
but blending it with that of your partner
FRED ASTAIRE
process of making plans for
something; most important of success; provides
information; top management needs to make
effective decisions about how to allocate resources
in way that will enable organization to reach
objectives
PLANNING
making arrangements/preparation for
event or activity often arranged in systematic way,
especially on large scale (always associated with
plan)
ORGANIZE
ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE EVENT PLANNING
- Understand purpose of event
- Know your audience
- Select right venue (vital)
- Choose suitable timing
- Draft plan and follow timeline
- Create content attracts target audience
- Design message to share through event
- Lead capture mechanism
activity is considered “fitness
level” because it was performed at higher intensity
than normal, routine activity
FITNESS EVENT
power/opportunity to act/take charge
before others do; ability to be resourceful and work
without always being told what to do
INITIATIVE
