2. AEROBICDANCE
What is Aerobic Dancing?
-Aerobic dancing helps to keep the arteries clear and blood vessels healthy. Performing this dance
regularly will keep your cholesterol level in check. Another benefit of aerobic dancing is that it
reduces stress and uplifts your mood. By enrolling in an aerobics class, you will also get a chance
to meet new people.
-Aerobic dancing was invented by Jacki Sorensen in 1969, inspired by Cooper's book. Sorensen
began teaching her method and spreading it throughout the U.S. in the hands of hundreds of
instructors in the 1970s.
-Aerobic dancing helps to keep the arteries clear and blood vessels healthy. Performing this dance
regularly will keep your cholesterol level in check. Another benefit of aerobic dancing is that it
reduces stress and uplifts your mood. By enrolling in an aerobics class, you will also get a chance
to meet new people
3. AEROBICDANCE
What are the benefits of aerobic dance?
Improved condition of your heart and lungs.
increased muscular strength, endurance and motor fitness.
increased aerobic fitness.
improved muscle tone and strength.
weight management.
stronger bones and reduced risk of osteoporosis.
better coordination, agility and flexibility.
8. BENEFITSOFSTRENGTHTRAINING
Promotes strong and healthy bones
Helps control life's physical and emotional stresses
Improves intellectual capacity and increases one's
productivity Aids in the
natural way of losing weight and keeping it off Provides
significant protection from heart
disease Promotes better and more effective sleep.
9. HISTORY
Both the term and the specific exercise
method were developed by a physician,
called Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, in San Antonio
air force hospital in Texas. His book,
"Aerobics", was published in 1968.
After the publishing pf Cooper's book, the
fitness instructor Jackie Sorenson
developed a series of dance routines known
as the aerobic dance to improve the
cardiovascular fitness.
11. WHATISMODERNDANCE?
It is often referred to as contemporary or lyrical.
Modern dances strive to connect the mind and body
through fluid dance movements while focusing on
spontaneity and self- expression. A broad genre of
western concert or theatrical dance which include such
as:
BALLET
ETHNIC
RELIGIOUS
SOCIAL
DANCING
12. PURPOSEOFMODERNDANCE
Modern Dance offers dancers a chance to explore their creativity
through movement.
It can introduce you to a new form of technique in which you experience
the joy of movement.
It can heighten your appreciation of music, other various arts and
movement forms.
It can increase your respect and understanding of the dancer's
preofession.
It can expand your awareness and appreciation of the way you and
others move.
It also builds a lot of strength.
The new purpose of modern dance was to take what they already had
and make it better.
13. HISTORYOFMODERNDANCE
Modern dancers still rely on many ballet steps
as part of their choreographed modern dance
routines. Modern dance is deeply embedded
in ballet syllabus. Historically, modern dance
began as free form style lyrical ballet among a
community professional ballet dancers who
refused to stop dancing.
14. WHEREANDWHENITBEGAN?
A historical study of modern dance makes
evident three phases of this dance style:
The early period from 1880 to 1923 The middle
period from 1923 to 1946 .
The late modern period from 1946 to present.
It has began to develop in the UNITED STATE
and EUROPE.
20. HIP-HOP
Hip-hop cultural movement that attained
widespread popularity in the 1980s and
'90s;
the backing music for rap, the musical style
incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming
speech that became the movement's most
lasting and influential art form.
21. HIP-HOP
Although widely considered a synonym for rap music, the
term hip-hop refers to a complex culture comprising four
elements:
1. deejaying, or "turntabling";
2. rapping, also known as "MCing" or "rhyming";
3. graffiti painting, also known as "graf" or "writing";
4. B-boying which encompasses hip-hop dance, style,
and attitude, along with the sort of virile body language
that philosopher Cornel West described as "postural
semantics."
22. ORIGINSANDTHEOLDSCHOOL
Hip-hop originated in the predominantly
African American economically depressed
South Bronx section of New York City in the
late 1970s.
Graffiti and break dancing, the aspects of
the culture that first caught public
attention, had the least lasting effect.
23. HIP-HOPINTHE21STCENTURY
As the century turned, the music industry entered into a crisis,
brought on by the advent of digital downloading.
Hip-hop suffered at least as severely as or worse than other
genres, with sales tumbling throughout the decade.
Simultaneously, though, it solidified its standing as the dominant
influence on global youth culture.
Even the massively popular "boy bands," such as the Backstreet
Boys and *NSYNC, drew heavily on hip-hop sounds and styles,
and rhythm and blues and even gospel had adapted so fully to
the newer approach that stars such as Mary J Blige, R. Kelly, and
Kirk Franklin straddled both worlds.
26. CONTEMPORARYDANCE
The name "contemporary dance" describes a range of
techniques and styles used in classes, workshops and dance
choreography.
It was developed in the early 20th century as a recreation
against the rigid techniques of ballet.
Pioneers such as Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham
searched for ease of movement using the body's natural lines
and energy, allowing a greater range and fluidity of
movement than typical and traditional dance techniques.
27. HISTORYOFCONTEMPORARYDANCES
In European culture, one of the earliest records of dancing is
by homer, whose "Iliad" describes CHOREA (KHOREIA)
The art of dancing into a system that is expressive of all the
different passions.
The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, ranked dancing with poetry,
and said that certain dancers, with rhythm applied to
gesture, could express manners, passions, and actions.
The most eminent Greek sculptors studied the attitude of the
dancers for their art of imitating the passions.
29. TECHNIQUES
his style focused on the architecture of the body in space,
rhythm and articulation.
What does that mean? Cunningham uses the idea of the body's
own "line of energy" to promote easy, natural movement.
Cunningham Technique
(named after teacher and choreographer Merce Cunningham)
30. TECHNIQUES
Involves exploring the use of energy in relation to gravity and
working with weight in terms of fall, rebound, recovery and
suspension.
What does that mean? Limon technique uses the feeling of
weight and "heavy energy" in the body, and movement is
instigated using breath to lift, and swings through the body to
create and halt movement. It also feels very nice to perform!
Limon Technique
(named after Jose Limon)
31. TECHNIQUES
Improvisation Improvisation focuses on the investigation of
movement and its relation to performance. Development
of individual movement material is facilitated through a
variety of creative explorations.
Contact Improvisation Contact improvisation describes a
duet dance form characterised by weight exchange, fluid
movement and touch. Partners improvise using the natural
movement of the body.
Improvisation Technique
32. TECHNIQUES
Involves exploring the use of energy in relation to gravity and
working with weight in terms of fall, rebound, recovery and
suspension.
What does that mean? Limon technique uses the feeling of
weight and "heavy energy" in the body, and movement is
instigated using breath to lift, and swings through the body to
create and halt movement. It also feels very nice to perform!
Limon Technique
(named after Jose Limon)
