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Dance is a form of art that uses rhythmic body movements and is often accompanied by music. It has been practiced in virtually every culture as both a creative art form and form of recreation. There are many different styles and purposes of dance including primitive, folk, social, and theatrical dances. Key components of dance include the dancer, basic steps and formations, choreography, dance notation, and theatrical elements like music and drama. Principles that guide dance composition include climax and resolution, contrast, repetition, sequencing and development, transitions, and unity.
Dance is a form of art that uses rhythmic body movements and is often accompanied by music. It has been practiced in virtually every culture as both a creative art form and form of recreation. There are many different styles and purposes of dance including primitive, folk, social, and theatrical dances. Key components of dance include the dancer, basic steps and formations, choreography, dance notation, and theatrical elements like music and drama. Principles that guide dance composition include climax and resolution, contrast, repetition, sequencing and development, transitions, and unity.
Dance is a form of art that uses rhythmic body movements and is often accompanied by music. It has been practiced in virtually every culture as both a creative art form and form of recreation. There are many different styles and purposes of dance including primitive, folk, social, and theatrical dances. Key components of dance include the dancer, basic steps and formations, choreography, dance notation, and theatrical elements like music and drama. Principles that guide dance composition include climax and resolution, contrast, repetition, sequencing and development, transitions, and unity.
Santiago, Correne Grace Cordero, Gabrielle, E. De Castro, Michael Cenido, Kirby What is dance? • It is a form of art using rhythmic bodily movements expressing ideas and emotions and accompanied by music. • Dance seems to be one of the oldest of art forms, being found in virtually every culture and attested to in records of cultures long since extinct. • Throughout the ages, the dancing body has inspired the musician, sculptor and the painter. • It has been called “Mother of arts” • Dancing is both a form of art and recreation. • As a form of recreation, dancing has long provided fun, relaxation and companionship. What is dance?
• Dance of the earliest times differ
from those of the present times; the dance of the barrio folks differ from those of the city.
• There are primitive and non
primitive dances. Indians dance to give thanks for a harvest. The Mexican to celebrate a religious festival, teenagers dance at parties, and children everywhere dance because it is pleasurable to express joy through bodily movements or body language. Why People Dance? • It has been used in worship. • It plays a role in courtship. • It even breaks the monotony of the daily activities. • It serves to entertain others. • Serves a way for man and woman to become acquainted before they marry. • Children dance because of the joy they feel. • Some primitive people believes that dances bring them magic powers. • Dance reaches its most beautiful form for those who treat dance as an art. They give beauty and inspiration to others. • Dancing provides one of the most personal and effective means of communication. Features of Dance • MUSIC – It is closely related to dance for it plays a significant role. It is used as accompaniment that somehow motivates the dancer’s movement. • MOVEMENT – It refers to action of dances with the use of their bodies to create organized patterns. • THEME – It pertains to the content or main ingredient of the dance. It actually conveys the message of the dance. • TECHNIQUES - It refers to the skill in executing movements. As a dancer, one needs to have a complete control over the muscles of his body for him to be said technically proficient. • DESIGN - It refers to the arrangement of movements according to pattern in time (either fast or slow) and space (one position in relation to his background) • PROPERTIES AND COSTUME – These contributes to the visual effect of dance. The costumes can somehow relate closely to the beliefs and environment of people. Components of the Dance 1. Dancer • It is through the body of the dancer that the art of dancing is portrayed, and the physical, emotional and natural characteristics of the dancer that determine the quality and the nature of the dance. • He executes the steps, follow the instruction of the choreographer, wears the customes, and carries props. Physical Requirements- Dancers are not just performing artists; their bodies are also the instruments through which the art is created. The quality of this art, therefore, necessarily depends on the physical qualities and skill that dancers posses. The stronger and more flexible a dancer’s body, the more capable it is wide range of movements. Importance of training-Daily classes are necessary not only to mold the body and develop the necessary physical skills but also to maintain the body in its proper conditions and prevent injury. Many dance movements make strenuous and unnatural demands on the joints, muscles, and tendons, and it’s easy to strain or damage them if the body is not properly maintained. Some bodies are more suitable for training than others, and in the West many aspiring dancers undergo extensive medical scrutiny to ensure that they have no weakness or disabilities, such as a weak or crooked spine, that make them unfit for dancing. Differences among dancers - However rigorous and uniform training may be, each dancer always has a excellent jumper, while another may have exquisite control and balance on slow, sustained dance passages. The same choreography may also look completely different when executed by two different when executed by two different bodies. 2. Basic Steps and Formation • Ballet and modern dance - The style and movement vocabulary of classical ballet id rooted in the five turned-out positions of the feet. • 1) heels touching and feet forming a straight line. • 2) heels apart and feet forming a straight line. • 3) one foot in front of the other with the heel against the insteps. • 4) feet apart, one in front of the other and • 5) one foot in front of the other with the heel against the joint of the big toe. Each of these ballet positions has a corresponding port de bras, or position of the arms and hands.
Modern dance use many of the steps and
positions of classical dance but often in a vary different style. The legs may be turned in and feet flex or held loosely rather than pointed. There is much greater use of the torso, which may twist, bend or crouch, and more rolls and falls in which the dancer works on or close to the floor. • Folk dance - Many of the steps used in folk dance are like basic versions of ballet steps: small hops and skips : running step similar to the pas de bouree : and move vigorous steps such as the gallop : in which one leg slides to the front or side and the other leg is brought to meet in the air with a small spring before the dancer lands on it , ready to slide the original leg forward again. Arm and Body movement are usually simple and relaxed, with hands held at the waist or hanging at the slides and the body swaying in the rhythm to the movement. • Social dance - Except for display, social dances are rarely performed in any strict formation, although dancers may sometime form themselves spontaneously into lines or circles. Ballroom dancers are categorized instead by they step patterns, rhythms, and tempos. Some of the best-known dancers are the waltz, fox trot, tango, rumba, samba, and cha- cha. 3. Choreography
• It is a dance director. He does the overall design of the
dance, assigns the step to be executed by the dancers, select customes and props that go with dance, and determines the set designed for the dance. • is the art of making dance, the gathering and organizations of movement into order and pattern. Most recent works of Western theater dance have been created by single choreography, who have been regarded as the authors and owner of their works in a way comparable to writers, composers, and painters. The choreographer must therefore be : • A dancer, or a former dancer • Someone who has studied dance technique and who understands the capacities and limitations of his aesthetic material: that is, the human body • Someone who has a variety of steps at his command, to avoid monotony • And someone with imagination and feelings who can give character and beauty to the dance. 4. Dance Notation
• Since dance is a performing art, the survival of
any dance work depend either on its being preserved through tradition or on its being written down in some form. Where tradition is continuous and uninterrupted, changes in style and interpretation may be corrected and the dance preserved in its original form. 5. Theatrical Elements • Music design and drama have all played important roles in the evolution of dance, and in many cultures dance has actually been inseparable from these arts. The Greek word mousike, for example, referring to music, poetry, and dance as one form, reflected the integral relation between these arts in classical Greek drama. I the early European ballets, dance, drama, and spectacle were equally inseparable. Principles of Dance 1. Climax and Resolution • All dances need to begin somewhere, build toward something, and come to a resolution (beginning, middle, and end). When a dance builds In intensity and interest and reaches a high point, the high point is called climax. A climax can be created in many ways. For example, dance phrases can increase in intensity of energy and speed to a high point before decreasing to a lull, or a narrative can build toward a highlight turning point before resolved. 2. Contrast
• Contrast can be achieved by combining and/or
juxtaposing unlike movements. Movements can differ in action, body, dynamic, space, or relationship concepts. 3. Repetition
• Repetition of movement phrases or parts of
phrases is reassuring for an audience. Repetition permits an audience to the movements in more detail, allowing them to become familiar with the movement vocabulary the choreographer is using. Repetition can also use to give movement emphasis. 4. Sequencing and Development • Refer to the ordering of movement in a meaningful way. When movements are purposely connected to each other, they gain significance and take on meaning. This is similar to a word gaining significance. This creates continuity, helping the audience follow the intent of the dance. 5. Transitions
• Are needed when movements and dance
phrases are connected. Transitions should work toward the intent of the dance composition by connecting the movements and dance phrases in a meaningful way. Transitional movements should promote continuity. 6. Unity
• When all the parts works together to contribute
to the whole dance, there is unity. Every movement, no matter how brief, should work toward the intent of the composition. Unity is achieved when the removal of any portion of the composition damages the whole dance. 7. Variety
• Variety with in a dance composition can engage
and hold an audience interest. Variety can be incorporated in several ways, selecting unlike movements to create variety, varying dance phrases in length and structure, varying spatial, dynamic body, or relationship aspects when movements or phrases are repeated, or presenting movements in retro gate. Kinds of Dances - Art of dancing started from the simplest forms of purer dance expressions performed by an individual for self satisfaction to the most sophisticated modern and large scale production in which dance is the dominant factor. 1. Ballet
• This type of dance has its origin in the
royal courts of the middle ages. It is the great spectacular dance form of the Western World and perhaps even in our country today. The term ballet refers to a series of solo and concerted dances in which poses and steps are combined with light flowing figures, accompanied by music and scenic accessories expressive of a dramatic story theme or atmosphere. • This dance is native to a particular ethnic group. They are performed by dancers associated with national and cultural 2. Ethnologic groups. Religious rituals (ethnic dances) are designed as hymns of phrase to a god, or to bring in good fortune in Dance peace or war. Folk dances expose a great deal about the culture of a particular people – their beliefs, desire, interests and habits. • They are popular type of dancing usually performed by pairs. They include such forms as waltz, foxtrot, swing, cha-cha, boogie, 3. Social and tango and the latest rock dances. Most of them has specific steps and rhythm but many newer ones allow the dancers to compose Ballroom dances their own movements as they dance. it is the kind of dance people do for fun thus it is called popular dancing. • Sometimes called contemporary and interpretative dances. They represent a rebellion against the classical formation of the ballet: emphasize personal communication of moods and themes. Modern dance has a dynamic tempo and is vitally 4. Modern precise, spontaneous, free and natural. The movements are based on the natural movements of the human body. The Dances dancers stretches, drops, exaggerates, distorts or intensifies such movement for arts sake. The human body in turn deals with skill and balance tension and relaxation. • This type of dance is so called because it is performed for the entertainment of spectators. Theatrical dancing includes for the ballet, 5. Theatrical or modern dance, musical comedy dances and tap dancing. Theatrical dancers may derive Spectacular Dance satisfaction from creating something beautiful but their own enjoyments is less important than their ability to interpret the dance effectively for the audience.