Physical Education

1. College of Arts & Sciences of Asia & the Pacific
CASAP
Physical Education and
Health 3
SY 2022-2023

2. Folk Dance
Traditional Dance

3. Prayer

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5. Attendance

6. Objective
• Discusses the nature of the different dances.
• Explain the reason why people dance.
• Enumerate and discuss the elements of dance.

7. What is Dancing?
A rhythmic and expressive movement of the body in
successive movement usually accompanied by
music. It has been said to be the mother of the arts,
for it’s the oldest of the art which actually reflects
man’s age old need to communicate different
emotions such as joy, grief, excitement and others.

8. What is Dancing?
Dance simply started as man’s own life for almost all occasions, in
whatever aspects, as birth, death, healing of the sick, asking for
forgiveness, war, marriage – were celebrated by dancing.
There are dances that express thankfulness for a good harvest, in
celebration of religious festivities, or just a mere pleasurable
expression of the body. It uniquely intensifies different moods and
emotions that somehow deepen everybody’s feelings.

9. Why do people Dance?
• It has been used in worship.
• It plays a role in courtship.
• It serves as a form of acquaintance for a man and woman.
• It is an expression of the joy one feels.
• As in old times, it brings magical power to people.

10. Why do people Dance?
• It brings victory or somehow restores health to life.
• It even breaks the monotony of the daily activities.
• It serves to entertain others.
• It gives beauty and inspiration to others.
• It provides personal and effectiveness of
communication.

11. Two kinds of movement
1. Movement within the body which
includes the hand and arms.
2. Movement from one space to another.
Significant Features of the
Dance as a Form

12. Features of Dance
1. MUSIC - It is closely related to dance for it plays a significant role in
it. It is used as accompaniment that somehow motivates the dancer's
movement.
2. MOVEMENT - It refers to action of dances with the use of their
bodies to create organized patterns.
3. THEME – It pertains to the content or main ingredient of the dance. It
actually conveys the message of the dance.

13. Features of Dance
4. TECHNIQUES - It refers to the skill in executing movement. As a
dancer one needs to have a complete control over the muscles of his
body for him to be said technically proficient.
5. DESIGN – It refers to the arrangement of movements according to
pattern in time (either fast or slow) and space (one's position in
relation to his background).
6. PROPERTIES AND COSTUME-These contribute to the visual effect
of dance. The costumes can somehow relate closely to the beliefs
and environment of people.

14. 1.ETHNOLOGICAL DANCE- This is a dance that is indigenous to a
certain race or country. The term ethnic is used to distinguish
religious dances, and designed as hymns of praise to a god, or to
bring on good fortune in peace and war. They are symbolic in
meaning that can't be understood easily by persons who don't
belong to the ethnic group.
2.SOCIAL DANCE - These are popular type of dancing for pleasure
as generally performed by pairs or group of people following a
definite step or pattern. Most of these have specific rhythms and
coordinate with the movement and steps of the body, hand, foot and
head.
Kinds of dance

15. a. BALLROOM DANCE- It actually originated as square dance which
followed by waltz, tango, foxtrot, swing, etc.
b. FOLK DANCE- It usually derived from ethnic dances. People all overt
world have their own folk dances as distinct to their specific culture.
Kinds of dance

16. 1. TIME:
a. Speed – slow, medium, fast, freeze, suspend.
b. Rhythm - pulse, beat, pattern, syncopation.
2. SPACE:
a.Place – personal, general.
b. Size – small, medium, high.
c. Level – low, middle, high.
d. Direction – forward, background, left, right, up, down.
e. Pathway – straight, curved, zigzagged, turning.
Elements of Dance

17. 3. Energy:
a. Light, strong, weak, sharp, smooth
4. Body:
a. Shape - lines, curves, angles, various shape
b. Parts - head, neck, shoulder, arms, back, stomach, fingers, legs,
bottom, toes.
5. Movement concepts:
a. Locomotor - walk, run, heap, hop, jump, gallop, slide, crawl, creep,
slither
b. b. Non-locomotor - bend, twist, stretch, reach, swing, push, pull,
fall, sway, turn, spin, dodge, kick, poke, curl, slash, dab, punch,
flick, float, glide, shake, rise, wiggle, burst.
Elements of Dance

18. Thank you!