This document discusses the nature of dance. It begins by defining dance as rhythmic body movement accompanied by music. Dance originated as a form of communication and was used to celebrate important life events. There are many reasons why people dance, including worship, courtship, entertainment, and self-expression. Dance has key elements including music, movement, theme, techniques, design, and costumes. There are different types of dance such as ethnic, social, and theatrical dances. Theatrical dances include ballet and modern dance. Key elements of dance include time, space, energy, body, and movement concepts.

1. Physical Education
and Health 12
NATURE
OF
DANCES

2. Learning Content
• Dance as an art
• Why do people dance?
• Significant feature of dance.
• Feature of dance
• Kinds of dance
• Elements of dance

3. Target Competencies
• Discuss the different nature of dance.
• Explain the reason why people dance.
• Enumerate and discuss the elements of
dance.

4. DANCE AS AN ART
Dance is 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.

5. DANCE AS AN ART
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.

6. 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 s to people.
•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.

7. SIGNIFICANT FEATURES OF THE DANCE
AS AN FORM
Two kinds of movement
1.Movement within the body
which includes the hand and
arms.
2.Movement from one space to
another.

8. Features of Dance
1.MUSIC – It is closely related to dance for it plays a significantrole 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.
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.

9. Kinds of Dance
1.ETHNOLOGIC 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 coordinated with the movement and steps of the
body, hand, foot and head.
a. BALLROOM DANCE – It actually originated as square dance which wa
followed by waltz, tango, foxtrot, swing, etc.
b. FOLK DANCE – It usually derived from ethnic dances. People all over t
world have their own folk dances as distinct to their
specific culture.

10. Kinds of Dance
3. THEATRICAL or SPECTACULAR DANCE –this type of dance is so
called because it is performed for the entertainment of
spectators. Theatrical dancing includes the ballet, modern dance,
musical comedy dances, and tap dancing.
a. Ballet – formalized type of dance which has its origin in the
royal courts of the Middle Ages. It is often shown in the Cultural
Center of the Philippines. The term „ballet‟ refers to a series of
solo and concerted dances in which poses and steps are combined
with light flowing figures,.

11. Kinds of Dance
3. THEATRICAL or SPECTACULAR DANCE –this type of dance is so
called because it is performed for the entertainment of
spectators. Theatrical dancing includes the ballet, modern dance,
musical comedy dances, and tap dancing.
a. Ballet – formalized type of dance which has its origin in the
royal courts of the Middle Ages. It is often shown in the Cultural
Center of the Philippines. The term ”ballet” refers to a series of
solo and concerted dances in which poses and steps are combined
with light flowing figures.
b. Modern Dance – characterized as natural and free. Also called
expressional dance

12. ELEMENT OF DANCE
1. TIME:
a. Speed – slow, medium, fast, freeze, suspend.
b. Rhytm – pulse, beat, pattern, syncopation
2. SPACE:
a. Place – Personal, general
b. Size - small, medium, big
c. Level – low, middle, high
d. Direction – forward, background, left, right, up, down
e. Pathway – straight, curved, zigzagged, turning

13. ELEMENT OF DANCE
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. Nonlocomotor – 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.

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15. ACTIVITY
1.Divide your class into 3 groups.
2.Search for different example of Ethnologic
dance then select one from these example
for your group to perform.
3. Presentation is on next meeting.
4.Be guided by the rubric on how your
presentation be graded.