LESSON1: DANCE EFFECTS AND BENEFITS

Terms:

Aerobic Exercise
- Offers cardiovascular conditioning that
may lower your risk of coronary heart
disease, high blood pressure and being
over overweight.

Calories burned
- Depending on the type of dance you
choose, the number of calories burned
will vary.

Bone density
- Because dancing is weight-bearing, it
can help improve bone density and
decrease the likelihood of
Osteoporosis.

Psychologically
- Offers an opportunity to be with
others, and to work off stress and
fatigue. The music that accompanies
dancing can heighten energy and mood,
and provide an enjoyable time.
LESSON2: HISTORY OF DANCE
Terms:

Belly dance/dancing

- Considered as the oldest dance

form.
- Originated 6,000 years ago.
- Performed only by woman, for
woman.
- A part of goddess worship and to
celebrate womanhood
- Its practice purpose was to
exercise the abdominal muscles of
women to go through pregnancy
and child birth successfully.
Classical dance
- Historic and takes many years to
learn.
- Western classical dance is called
Ballet
- Choreography is used to create it.
Ballet
- Combines dance with mime
or silent acting.
- Invented by King Louis XIV In 1459
and used it in Italy for a royal
wedding.
- Performed to Classical music.
- Focuses on strength, technique
and flexibility.
Choreography
- The arrangement of dance steps
and movements in to an organized
sequence.
Improvisation
- Has no formal steps, although it
can be choreography.
- The basis of contemporary or
modern dance.
- Dancers express their feelings in
their movements to create a
highly personal, natural
performance.
Contemporary dance
- Began at the start of the 20th
century.
- Invented by Isadora Duncan
(1878-1927) from doing ballet.
- Dance has many different styles,
some of them closely linked to
music, such as jazz, rock and roll,
hip-hop.
Ballroom dancing
- Involves a number of partner-
dancing styles such as waltz,
swing, foxtrot, rumba and tango.
Hip-hop
- Urban dance style that involves
breaking, popping, locking and
freestyling.
Square dancing
- Folk dancing where four couples
dance in a square pattern and
changing partners.
Pole dancing
- Increasingly popular as a form of
exercise.
- Involves sensual dancing with a
vertical pole.
- Requires muscle endurance,
coordination, and upper-and-
lower-body strength.
Jazz
- High-energy dance style involving
kicks, leaps and turns to the beat
of the music.
Tap dancing
- Focus on timing and beats.
- Name originated from the tapping
sounds made when the metal
plates on the dancer’s shoes touch
the ground.
 LESSON3: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY DANCE

Terms:

Modern dance
- Emerged as a rejection or
rebellion against classical ballet.
- From the 19th century by Isadora
Duncan, Maud Allan, and Louie
Fuller.
- Greater freedom of movement.

Aesthetic or Free dance

- Pioneered by Isadora Duncan,
Maud Allan, and Louie Fuller in
19th century.
- New forms and practices for
performance.

Early Period (c. 1880 – 1923)

- Eurhythmics
- 1. Isadora Duncan
 2. Ruth St. Denis
3. Mary Wigman Modern Dance
- 1. Martha Graham
Eurhythmics 2. Mercier Philip “Merce”
- A system form of teaching musical Cunningham
rhythms through body 3. Lester Horton
movements.
- Arts of harmonious bodily Contemporary Dance
movement. - Rebels inspired from European
- Expressive timed movements in dancers.
response to improvised music. - 1. Isadora Duncan
2. Ruth St. Denis
3. Jose Limon
- Movement of the new dancers
who are against the classical ballet
and lyrical dance forms.
- Explore revolutionary
unconventional movements.
- They wanted to show that we
Central period/1930s (c. 1923 – 1946) should embrace freedom, ignore
- Second wave of modern dancers. old dance conventions and
- Turned basic movements into explore the limits of the human
dance movement. body and visual expression of
- 1. Martha Graham feelings.
2. Doris Hamphrey - 4. Alice Reyes
3. Hanya Holm

Late modern/ Postwar Developments

(c. 1946-1957)
- The third period after WWII ended
in 1945 and continues today.
- Combined and fused techniques
drawn from social dance, ballet
and modern dance.

Interpretative Dancing
- Form of dancing which portray
movements that the dancer want
to express in his/her composition.