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E & HEALTH REVIEWER Q1

 Lesson 1 – DANCE

 Benefits of Dance  Other benefits of Dance

- Mentally - Improved heart and lungs
- Socially - Increased muscular strength
- Culturally - Endurance and motor fitness
- Emotionally - Weight management
- Physically
 Other effects of Dance
 Effects of Dance - Better condition, agility
- Muscular strength - Improved spatial awareness
- Flexibility - Better social skills
- Aerobic fitness - Self-confident and esteem
- Balance - Physical confident and mental functioning
- Coordination
- Posture
 Aerobic Exercise
- Offers cardiovascular conditioning
- Lower rick of coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, and overweight
 Calories burned
- It depends on the type of the dance you choose
 Psychologically
- To be with others
- To work off stress and fatigue
- provide an enjoyable time
 can any body dance?
- Anybody can dance
 Why do people dance?
- Have natural urge to move in time to music (event, entertainment, and relation)
- Important part of many religious
- Mark the stages of life (birth or death)
- Human desire and social connection
 Bone density
- Osteoporosis

 Lesson 2 – HISTORY OF DANCE

 When?
- Archeologist found evidence in 9,000 years “old painting”
- In India at rock shelters of Bhimbetka & Egyptian tomb painting depicts figure, dated C. 3300 BC
- Dance ids difficult to access because it does not often leave behind clearly identifiable
- It is not possible to identify with exact precision when dance became part of human nature
 Oldest form of Dance
- Belly Dance (Birth Chance)
- 6,000 years by ancient culture
- Has negative annotations and considered to be seductive
- It was only performed by women
- Goddess worship and woman hood
- To exercise abdominal muscle so that they could 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 classical dance
- It is the arrangement of dance steps and movement into an organize sequence
- Dance is usually choreographed to music
 Improvision Dance
- Has no formal steps
- It is the basis of contemporary and modern dance
- Dancers express their feelings in their movement to create highly professional, natural performance
 Contemporary Dance
- Begin at 20th century
- When U.S dancer Isadora Duncan (1878-1927) broke away ballet and natural style
 - Has many different styles, such as jazz, rock & roll, and hip-hop
 Types of Dances
- Ballet
- Dance gracefully
- Classical music that focuses on strength, technique
- Ballroom
- Number of partner dancing style
- Waltz, swing foxtrot, rumba, and tango
- Hip-hop
- Urban dance style that can improve breaking, popping, locking and freestyling
- Square dance
- Folk dance, where 4-couples dances in a square pattern
- Moving around each other and changing partners
- Pole dancing
- Popular form of exercise
- Sensual dance with vertical pole
- Requires endurance, coordination and upper & lower body strength
- Jazz
- High energy dance style
- Involves kicks, leaps, and turns to the beat of the music
- Tap dancing
- Focuses on timing and beats
- It is originated from tapping sounds when small metal touch the ground

 Lesson 2 – MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY DANCE

 Modern Dance
- Rejector or rebellion against classical ballet
- Isadora Duncan, Maud Allan, Loie Fuller practices “aesthetic” or free dance
- The particular limited set of movement that were considered proper to ballet and stop wearing corsets
and pointed shoes in search for greater freedom of movement
 American Modern Dance Divided into Three Era:
- The Early Modern Period/ Early Era (C. 1880-1923)
- Eurhythmics
- Music rhythm through body movement
- Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, and Mary Wigman
- The Central Modern Period/ The 1930’s (C.1923-1946)
- Second wave of modern dancer s emerged
- Basic movement experiences and transformed this natural movement into dance movement
- Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Hanya Holm
- Late Modern Period/ Postwar development C.1946-1957)
- Began after WW2 ended in 1945 and continues today
- Combined and focused techniques drawn from social dance, ballet, and modern dance
 Emil Rath
- “Music and Rhythmic Bodily Movement are Twin Sister of Art”
- Interpretative Dancing
 Pioneers of Modern Dance
- Martha Graham
- May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991
- Founding mother of contemporary and modern dance
- First dancer to perform at the white house and receive a medal of freedom
- 7 decades Dancer and Choreographer
- Mercier Philip “Merce” Cunningham
- April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009
- “Choreography by chance” technique in selected isolated movements is assigned sequence such as
tossing a coin
- American Dancer and Choreographer, Forefront of modern dance more than 50 years
- Lester Horton
- January 23, 1906 – November 2, 1953
- Dance like “who you are” your personal individuality is your most priceless asset
- First racially integrated dance contemporary
 Pioneer of Contemporary Dance
- Earliest Dancer where rebel & took inspiration from European but developed unique dance in their own
 - Referred to the movement of the new dancers who did not want to follow strict classical ballet and lyrical
dance form
- Isadora Duncan
- May 26, 1877 – September 14, 1927
- Developed naturalistic movement
- Reject classical dance training rather express choreography of emotion, sculpture, classical music,
and freedom movement
- Ruth St. Denis
- January 20, 1879 – January 21, 1968
- First lady of American dance
- “I see dance used as communication between body and soul to express what it is deep to find for
words
- Jose Arcadio Limon
- January 12, 1908 – December 21, 1972
- Mexican born Dancer and Choreographer
- He created the natural rhythms of fall and recovery
- Alice Reyes (Philippines)
- Mother of Contemporary Dance
- Founder of “Ballet Philippines”
- Proclaimed national artist by President Aquino III on June 20, 2014
- Promote dance arts nationwide and Pioneer in the Philippines
 Elements of Dance
- Movement
- Locomotor such as run, walk, jump
- Non-locomotor such as bend, twist, swing
- Time
- Fast, medium, low, and with or without music
- Space
- Level such as low, medium, high
- Direction such as forward, sideway,
- Focus such as straight, open
- Energy
- Strong or light
 Dance Style
- Narrative
- Express message
- Chance
- Random selection of movement
- Contact Improvision
- Duet
- Physical contact and follow each other
- Improvision
- Spontaneous movement
- Post-modern
- Minimalist dance