FUNDAMENTAL STEPS

OF ARMS AND FEET IN

FOLK DANCE
• It is recreational or ceremonial dance performed usually by
members of the community to which the dance is traditional.
Varying criteria have been used to differentiate folk dance from
other kinds of dance.
• the dancers are said to belong to a certain economic level or
come from certain locales.
• the steps are simple and repeated, so that any member of the
community can participate
• Each of these criteria can be contradicted by dances that are
indisputably folk dances, and in each of these criteria, folk dance
overlaps with other kinds of dance.
SWAY BALANCE – THE FIRST STEP IS USUALLY DONE OBLIQUENTLY FORWARD, CTS. 1,2,
THE CROSS-STEP IS DONE SIDEWARD (CT.3). THE SUCCEEDING STEP IS DONE
OBLIQUENTLY BACKWARD (CT.2) AND THE LAST TWO COUNTS ARE DONE IN FRONT, IN
PLACE. ARMS OPEN FROM THE FIRST POSITION TO THE FOURTH POSITION R OR L ARMS
HIGH. KUMINTANG R (L) HAND WHEN POINTING WITH L
(R ) FOOT ON CTS. 2,3 OF THE SECOND MEASURE.
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GROUP 4
QUIJANO, MELISSA F.
REGALADO, MARYLIGHT P.

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