LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET/ MGA GAWAING PAGKATUTO

DANCE 9
First Quarter/ Week 5-8

Name: ______________________ Date:_________

Grade and Section:_______________
Foreign Folk Dance ( TARANTELLA ITALIAN FOLK DANCE )
I. Learning Competency with code/Kasanayang Pampagkatuto at Koda
 performs selected foreign dances incorporating the elements of dance such as time, rhythm and
space, and movements.
II. Bacground Information for Learners/ Panimula (Susing Konsepto)
In this lesson, students identify the dance of Italy called “tarantella.” The students will be able to learn
the steps and right way on how tarantella dance will be executed. This music has somehow a fast-slow-
fast tempo. The time signature of this dance is 6/8times (sometimes 8/8 or 4/4).

III. Directions/ Instructions/ Panuto

 Before answering this Learning Activity Sheet don’t forget to fill out the learner’s information
above.
 Read the directions very carefully.
 Avoid erasures.
 Read the performance rubrics

IV. Exercises/ Activities/ Gawain

It’s time for the activity! Let us see if you understand the topic that we’ve discussed in this learning
activity sheet.
Activity 1: Jumbled Letters
Directions: Look at the following scrambled words. Rearrange the letter to form a word/term related to
the topic.

1. X
__ _
NMABIRTOUE
__

2.
X
_____
ALERTNAATL

3.
TTAATNARA

RACSF
4.

5.
UREC
Activity no. 2
1. What are the importance of applying elements of dance in every performance?
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Activity no. 3.
Complete the sentences below by supplying with most appropriate answers. Write your answers in one
the space provided.
1. Tarantella is a dance from _____________________________________________________.
2. The music is a _______________________________________________________tempo
3. Throughout history, dancing has been used as a way _______________________.
___________________________________________________________________.
4. Therefore I have learned that ___________________________________________________.
5. If given a chance, I would like to learn more about _______________________________.
Activity No. 3
Perform the dance step of Tarantella dance incorporating the elements of dance such as body, action,
space, time, and energy. If you are ready, perform it in front of the mirror. Don’t forget to take a picture
or video as a proof. You can send your video through messenger or in our google classroom. Music Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvlP4KrIzls
Note: You may use improvised tambourine (Bottle cap tambourine craft) as your props

Rubrics in Scoring the Tarantella Dance incorporating the elements of dance

CRITERIA EMERGING TYPICAL ABOVE AVERAGE SUPERIOR
(2 Points) (5 Point each) (10 Points each) (20 Points each)
Memory and Appears to have Completes dance Completes dance Completes dance
Recall in significant with some with few with no
prepared
difficulty errors, errors, generally obvious errors,
performance recalling or appears to have appears to appears to
some
following dance with focus dance with
choreography difficulty and focus and
recalling or
confidence confidence
following
choreography
Memory and Requires Comprehends Comprehends and Quickly
recall in other ongoing support and comprehends and
accurately
or
performance remembers remembers accurately
evaluation assistance to information and remembers
information and
activities remember
directions with directions, information and
information some directions,
some ability to
and follow
assistance dance in able to dance in
directions movement
movement phrases
phrases

Temporal Unable to Able to Able to consistently Able to

awareness consistently consistently match match consistently match
(Time/Rhythm) match body body body movements body
in prepared movements movements with with beat, movements with
beat beat,
performance with beat; reflects
appears to beat/rhythm in reflects
beat/rhythm in
struggle to whole body
dance in rhythm whole body;
demonstrates
keen sense of
time and
rhythm in
performance
Body Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates above Demonstrates
awareness below physical average unusual
and control in
average strength and physical strength physical
prepared physical strength flexibility and strength and
performance
and flexibility typical of peers flexibility; flexibility;
Demonstrates Demonstrates
above average unusually
balance and advanced balance
physical control and physical
control

Movement Demonstrates Demonstrates Demonstrates wide Demonstrates

quality below average range range of unusually full
awareness in
average range of movement movement qualities range of
prepared of movement qualities (e.g. (e.g. movement qualities
performance
qualities (e.g. strong, gentle, strong, gentle, (e.g. strong,
strong, gentle, bouncy, and bouncy, and gentle, bouncy,
bouncy, and swinging) swinging); and swinging);
swinging) demonstrates demonstrates
ability to move with unusual ability
subtlety to move with
and intensity subtlety and
 intensity

Emerging Typical Above Average Superior

Total Points Total Points Total Points Total Points
_________ _________ _________ _________
TOTAL SCORE

V. Answer Key/ Susi sa Pagwawasto

Activity 1

Activity 1
Activity 3

1. TAMBOURINE
1. ITALY
2. TARANTELLA
2. FAST-SLOW-FAST
3. TARANTATA
3. CELEBRATE, WORSHIP, UPLIFT, CUREAND
4. SCARF
BRINING INSIGHT INTO ITS RICH HISTORY
5. CURE
4. ANSWER MAY VARY
Activity no. 2
5. ANSWER MAY VARY
Answer may vary

V. Reflection/ Pangwakas
Must apply the elements of Dance for better performance

VI. Reference for Learners/ Mga Sanggunian

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvlP4KrIzls
2. https://www.italy.com/us_en/magazine/culture/dancing-the-tarantella/
3. https://italiandanceassesment139.weebly.com/costumesprops.html
4. http://www.italiansrus.com/galleries/folkdance/tarantellasteps.htm

Prepared by:/ Inihanda ni:

EMERLITA A. PASCUAL
Writer/ Pangalan ng may Akda
SPA Dance: Week 5-8
ITALIAN FOLK DANCE
TARANTELLA

Throughout history, dancing has been used as a way to celebrate, worship, uplift, and cure, and
countries around the world have folk dances that tell stories and bring insight into its rich history. Italy is
no exception, with dozens of beautiful folk dances created within its timeline. Of all the Italian folk
dances out there, none are more notable than the Tarantella.

Today, if you mention the word “tarantella” in Italy, you might be met with descriptions of a frenzied
wedding dance. But really, this folk dance has a much darker history spanning several centuries.

FROM A DANCE TO CURE

Also known as “the dance of the spider,” the Tarantella is derived from the Italian word tarantola,
meaning “tarantula.” The tarantola gets its name from the town of Taranto in Puglia, where the bite of
the local wolf spider (the tarantula) was widely believed to be highly poisonous and led to a condition
known as “tarantism.”
Tarantism was an epidemic that swept through Taranto and other parts of Italy between the 15 th and
17th centuries. According to legend, once bitten by a tarantula, the victim, referred to as the tarantata —
who was almost always a woman of lower status — would fall into a fit in which she was plagued by
heightened excitability and restlessness. Eventually, she would succumb to the condition and die.
The only cure, it seemed, was to engage in the frenzied dancing ritual of the Tarantella. Townspeople
would surround the tarantata while musicians would play instruments such as mandolins, guitars, and
tambourines in different tempos in search of the correct healing rhythm. Each varied beat would affect
the tarantata, leading her to move in erratic ways in line with the tempo. Once the correct rhythm was
found, the victim — dancing the Tarantella alone until exhausted — was thought to be cured, havin
“sweated out” the venom!

TO A DANCE TO COURT
As the passage of time faded the legend’s
mystique, the Tarantella eventually transformed
from a cure to a deadly disease to a couple’s dance
— either a man and woman, or two women —
performed at wedding ceremonies and other
celebrations. In fact, the Tarantella is now considered
unlucky by some to be danced alone.

With music written in a lively 6/8 time, this rapid whirling dance is characterized by light, quick steps, and
flirtatious gestures between the two partners. Typically, the woman carries a tambourine, and her rapid
movements are used as a way to excite her counterpart. On the other hand, the man’s movements are
made to charm his partner with his agility and tenderness.
 Costumes and props

The Italian ethnic dance, called the Tarantella, have traditional costumes for women and men.
The women traditional costumes are white, gathered skirts, white aprons, and a scarf around the neck.
The traditional costume for men are specially made shoes, three quarter pants, a black vest and
generally a little cap.
Props used in the Tarantella dance are the hoe, the well, the tambourine and vines from the vineyard.

Tarantella Dance Steps
Naples (Campania)

No. 8 skipping steps backward.

1. 8 skipping steps advancing
A skipping step is a hop preceded by a step, or a step and hop
danced staccato . . . Eight Measures.

No. Stationary step.

2. Step on right, cross left raised in front, hop on right,
          Count 1 and 2.
Step on left, cross right raised in front, hop on left,
          Count 3 and 4.
Four hops on right leg, turning to right, left raised,
          Count 1, 2, 3, 4.
Repeat these stationary steps commencing with the left
foot . . . . . . . . Eight Measures.

No. Step on right, point left front.

3. Step on left, point right front.
Half turning to face partner . . Two Measures.

No. Join right hands,

4. Circle about each other to original places with 16 skipping
steps to be executed in a very romping manner.
separate and end side by side . Eight Measures.

No.
8 backward skipping steps . . Four Measures
5.

No. Repetition of No. 2.

6. Step on right, cross and raise left, hop on right,
          Count 1 and 2.
Step on left, cross and raise right, hop on left,
           Count 3 and 4.
Four hops on right leg turning to the right
          Count 1, 2, 3, 4.
Repeat with left . . . . . Eight Measures.

No. Advancing obliquely to right, hop on left foot, and at same time
7. point right toe to the left toe,
          Count 1.
Hop on left and at the same time point right heel with toe raised
to the left toe,
          Count 2.
Repeat this until 16 counts have been made. Right hand on
hip, left hand raised over head.
          Eight Measures.

No. Transfer weight to right leg, raising the left behind, eight hops
8. on right leg turning rapidly to the right. Right arm extended in
front and left arm extended to the rear at the height of the
shoulders. Stop abruptly–pause an instant–take hands–and run
off . . . . . . Six Measures.