Uy, Erica Caitlin L.

PE12 (3:00-4:00pmTTH)

November 20, 2014

1. What is dance?
Dance is to move rhythmically to music, typically following a set sequence of steps.
2. What are the benefits or values you get in dance?
Dance keeps both the body and the brain active, vital for people of every age, helps you learn
about your body, improving your posture and balance, can led to new career opportunities, or help
build vital communications skills needed in every profession, can help increase your self esteem and
confidence through mastering new skills, and offers a creative outlet for people to express their
personalities in a safe environment
3. Phases of the dance program
a. Creative rhythms - a type of dance that reveals the spirit or motivation of the dancer to the
audience. The movements have an obvious beginning, middle, and end. In each case, there is a
connection to an external rhythm or beat, and sometimes a story in incorporated into the
dance.
b. Folk dance - a popular dance, considered as part of the tradition or custom of a particular
people.
c. Recreational dance - refers to any form of dancing that is done primarily for its social,
educational and health benefits.
d. Social and ballroom dance - a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and
competitively around the world, and growing all the more popular in North America.
e. Creative dance - a form of dance that provides the potential for personal expression.
4. Elements of Movements in Space
a. Direction - the movement of the body in terms of back, up, left, or right
b. Level - the different physical levels that the dancer or dancers reach.
c. Range - A task, problem, or other effort performed to develop or maintain fitness or increase
skill
d. Floor pattern - an area of floor in a disco, etc, where patrons may dance
5. Basic Natural Movements
I.
Locomotor definition
a. Walking - One foot to the other foot, with one foot always in contact with the floor.
b. Jumping - pushing oneself off a surface and into the air by Both feet to both feet
c. Running - One foot to the other foot, during transfer of weight both supports are off the floor.
d. Skipping - move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce.
e. Leaping - jump or spring a long way, to a great height, or with great force.
f. Hopping - move by jumping on one foot.
g. Sliding - move along a smooth surface while maintaining continuous contact with it.
h. Galloping - the fastest pace of a horse or other quadruped, with all the feet off the ground
together in each stride.
II.
Non Locomotor Movements
a. Twisting - Rotation of a body part aound its axis.
b. Bending - To move from a straight postion into a curved position.
c. Swaying - Shifting weight from one side to the other side smoothly.
d. Stretching - Causing a specific muscle to become longer than resting length
e. Turning - Turning the whole body around its axis in 360 degrees.
f. Swinging - Moving a body part side to side or forward and back as it is was a pendulum.