FOREIGN DANCE Flashcards
It is the integral part of the whole educational program designed to promote the optimum development of the individual physically, socially, emotionally, and mentally through total body movement in the performance of properly selected physical activities
Physical Education
The oldest proof of existence of dancing comes from what?
9000 year old cave paintings that were found in India
What scenes does the 9000 year old cave paintings depict?
various scenes of hunting, childbirth, religious rites, burials and most importantly, communal drinking and dancing
Period that dancing became widespread
The third millennia BC, when Egyptians started using dance as integral parts of their religious ceremonies.
What is the Greek word origin of Dance?
Danson - to stretch
A simple analysis of the term “sayaw” will easily lead one to say that it must have derived from which word?
Saya
It is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic to music. Used as a form of expression, social interaction, or presented in a spiritual or performance setting.
Dance
The area surrounding a person in which he/she is able to move.
Space
8 Main Reasons why people dance
- It is a part of their culture or belief.
- It is their way of exercising.
- They do it as a hobby.
- It is their stress-reliever.
- They want to socialize.
- To entertain other people.
- To express their feelings.
- It is their career.
Enumerate the sub-elements of Space (tinatamad ako isa-isahin)
a. Shape: circles, squares, triangles, etc. made with parts of the body, the whole body, with groups of people, or by moving through space.
b. Level: The vertical distance from the floor.
c. Direction: Where the body moves.
(e.g. Forward, backward, up, down, sideways, diagonally, etc.)
d. Pathways: Patterns we make as we move through the air or across the floor.
e. Focus: Where the dancer’s eyes look as he/she is dancing.
f. Size: How large or small movements.
Time
The duration of the movement
Enumerate the sub-elements of Time
a. Beat: The ongoing underlying pulse.
b. Tempo: How fast or slow the movements.
c. Accent: Strong beats that usually occur at regular intervals.
d. Rhythmic Patterns: Patterns made by arranging long and short movement or strong and light movement.
e. Duration: The length of time the movement lasts.
How the body uses energy while moving.
Force
What are the two ways Force can be released?
a. Bound = releasing energy in a controlled, restrained manner
b.Flowing = releasing energy freely.
Applies to those dances which come from countries other than Philippines.
Foreign Dance
The distinct characteristics of foreign dances vary according to the country’s?
culture, values and traditions
Couple dancing, like quadrille and cotillion that developed first as a social diversion among the aristocrats in which continent?
Europe
These type of dances frequently tell stories based on myths, historical events, epic poems, and legends.
Thus their drama, music and dances are closely linked and mutually related often depending on symbolic gestures, masks and complicated make ups and majestic costumes.
Asian Dances
Which continent’s folk dance requires many couples participating in square dance.
America
These are dances that use imitative and symbolic gestures and sinuous body movements, or hand gestures to convey a story like a Hawaiian hula, and accompanied by chanting. Originally this is a religious dance mostly performed by warriors and priestesses.
Oceanian Dances
the motion of the hands of the clock. R shoulder is toward the center of an imaginary circle.
Clockwise
Foreign and contemporary dances can be preserved for the future generation through the use of?
films, video tapes and dance notation system.
Which country/continent actually borrowed directly from African dance movements, characterizing Spanish movements with Indian dance native elements?
Latin America
