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LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND HEALTH 12
FESTIVAL DANCES
MODULE 2, WEEK 3

I. Introduction
Dance has been a part of our life ever since specially when there are
occasions. One of these dances is the Festival dances. Festival dances have
been a part of the celebration of festivals every year. In this learning activity
sheet, you will be able to know about the Festival dances. This will
introduces you to the value of festival dancing in the enhancement of your
fitness. You will do activities in this festival dancing which will in turn lead
to a greater awareness of the right foods to eat, proper ways to manage your
weight and of course opportunities to maximize the enhancement of your
fitness through festival dancing.

II. Learning Competency

Participates in an organized event that addresses health/dance issues and
concerns (PEH12FH-Ik-o-13)

III. Objectives:
At the end of this learning activity sheet, you are expected to:
• Know the meaning of Festival Dance
• Appreciate the Festival Dance as part of the Filipino Tradition
• Perform Festival Dance

IV. Discussion

Festival Dance
Festival dances are cultural dances performed to the strong beats of
percussion instruments by a community of people sharing the same culture
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usually done in honor of a Patron Saint or in thanksgiving of a bountiful

harvest. Festival dances may be religious or secular in nature.
It is an organized event where dance performance is celebrated. Dance
festivals may include competitions for individual dancers or teams, or may
simply serve as a cultural event focused on dance.
Some dance festivals seek to show off talented regional, national, or
international dance companies in all categories, while others focus on the
performance of a specific style of dance.

Why do we celebrate festival dances?

To conserve our traditions and values we need festivals and dances. It
is just a way to think of past and be thankful to god for all the things given.
A festival is a celebration that repeats once in a year and involves special
activities or amusements. Festivals bring people closer to each other and
make social bonds.

Where did festival dance originated?

Ati-Atihan in Kalibo, Aklan Known as The Mother of All Philippine
Festivals, the Ati-Atihan serves as the inspiration behind Cebu's Sinulog
and IloIlo's Dinagyang, among many other festivals in the country. While it
is also in honor of the Santo Niño, its origins are more pagan in nature,
dating some 800 years ago.

Types of Festival Dance:

Religious Festival-are festivals dedicated for patrons, gods, saints,
and others related to any Religion.
Secular Festival-is opposite of religious festival; maybe celebration of
people's industry and bountiful harvest.

RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS
Name of Festival Place of Origin Religious Figure Month
Honoured Celebrated
Sinulog Festival Cebu City Sto. Niño January
Dinagyang Iloilo City Sto. Niño January
Festival
Ati-atihan Kalibo, Aklan Sto. Niño January
Festival
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Peñafrancia Bicol Virgin Mary September

Higantes Festival Angono, Rizal Saint Clement November
Longganisa Viga City, Ilocos Saint Paul January
Festival Sur
Kinabayo Festival Dapitan City James the Great July
Pintados de Pasi Passi City, Iloilo Sto. Niño March
Pattarradday Santiago City Señor San Tiago May
Sangyaw Festival Tacloban City Sto. Niño June

SECULAR/ NON- RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL

Name of Festival Place of Origin Industry Month
Celebrated
Bangus Festival Dagupan, Milkfish Industry April to May
Pangasinan
Bambanti Isabela Scarecrow January
Festival (farming)
Mammangui City of Iligan Corn Industry May
Festival
Mango Festival Iba, Zambales Mango Industry April
Panagbenga Baguio City Flower Industry February
Festival
Ibon Ebon Pampanga Migratory Birds February
Festival Egg Industry
Masskara Bacolod Mask (Sugar October
Industry)
T'nalak South Cotabato Tinalak Cloth July
Weaving
Ammungan Nueva Viscaya Gathering of May
Festival Tribal Industries
Binatbatan Vigan, Ilocos Sur Weaving Industry May
Festival

V. Activities

ACTIVITY 1: PRE-ASSESSMENT BEFORE DOING THE FESTIVAL DANCE

Part I. Warm-Up (15 mins)

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Directions: This time you will be re-introduced to the basic warm-up

exercises that you have already learned during your PE class in Grade 7. Try
to recall and do them with your class so that before performing any physical
activity in the succeeding lessons, do the warm-up exercises first to
condition your body and prevent injuries from happening.
• A March (3 mins)
• High Knees (3 mins)
• Butt Kicks (3 mins)
• Shuffles (3 mins)
• Back Pedals (3 mins)
After performing the given exercises, use the following rating scale to assess
your performance:
I - I can perform the exercises by myself
O - I can perform the exercises with other’s help
W - I will just wait for my next PE class

Part II. HR Log

Directions: Below is an HR log, a template that allows you to self-assess and
report your heart rate before and after you perform a physical activity, the
time you spent, and your Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) of the physical
activities you do in a daily basis. Reflect on the physical activities you did
before going to school today or even in your PE class and fill in the needed
data in the given template. Do this in your activity notebook.
HR Log:

Name:
Date Activity Time HR (Pre) HR RPE Signature
Spent (Post)

Part III. Festival Dancing Questionnaire

Directions: Below is a survey questionnaire that reveals your involvement or
participation in festival dances. Copy it in your worksheet and accomplish
by putting a check mark ( ∕ ) corresponding to your response in each item.

Festival Dancing and Related Activities Yes No

1. I know the name of the festival in our place.
2. I am a member of a group representing our place in a
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festival dance competition

3. I usually watch actual festival dancing competitions in
other place
4. I am fond of watching festival dances in YouTube or in
TV shows.
5. I recognize the value of festival dancing to my fitness.
6. I contribute to the success of the festival in our place.
7. I am proud of the festival in my place.
8. I am a physically fit individual because I participate in
festival dancing.
9. I believe festival dancing can influence the fitness and
well-being of the community
10. Culture of the community is drawn and established
through festivals and festival dancing.

A scale is provided for you below which helps you make meaning of the
responses you have indicated in the survey-questionnaire.
Number of Yes Responses Relative Interpretation
1-3 Is inactive in festival dancing activities
4-6 Moderately active in festival dancing activities
7-10 Highly active in festival dancing activities

Based on your interpretation of your responses to the survey-questionnaire,

what does this reveal about your fitness and community involvement?
Express and share your answer to the class in 3-5 sentences.

Activity 2. REVIEW OF BASIC MOVEMENTS

In this activity, you will be given activities to recall the basic locomotor
and non-locomotor movements together with the basic steps and arm
movements in folk dance. They are necessary for you to know and be able to
do in producing your own festival dance relative to the context of the festival
you are celebrating.

1. Prepare a festival music. As it plays, try coming up with five figures of 16

counts each. Do this in ten minutes.

Locomotor Movements
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These are movements that allow you to move from one point in space
to another. It is canned from two words, “locos” which means place and
“motor” which means movement. They include the following:

Preparatory movement:

Step -This is the basis of all locomotor movements. It prepares you to move
in any direction you wish to go. It is defined as transfer of weight from one
foot to the other. Try one! Stand with your weight equally distributed to both
of your feet. Now, let your right foot carry it all. You got it! That’s what you
call a step.
Walk - Series of steps executed by both of your feet alternately in any
direction. In executing a walk, observe that there’s this moment when both
feet are in contact with the ground while one foot supports the weight and
transfers it to the other.
Run - Series of walks executed quickly in any direction wherein only one
foot stays on the ground while the other is off the ground.
Jump - This movement is simply described by having both feet lose its
contact with the ground.
There are five ways to do it:
• Take off from one foot and land on the same;
• Take off from one foot and land on the other;
•Take off from one foot and land on both feet;
• Take off from both feet and land on one foot; and
• Take off from both feet and land on both.

Non-Locomotor movements
These are movements that are performed in one point in space
without transferring to another point. They don’t allow you to move from one
place to the other. These movements include:
Flexion - It is the act of decreasing the angle of a joint. Another term for
flexion is to bend. If you bend a joint, like your elbow or knee, you are
performing flexion.
Extension - This is the opposite of flexion. You are extending if you are
increasing the angle of a joint. Stretching is another word for extension.
Contraction - A muscle movement done when it shortens, narrows, and
tightens using sufficient amount of energy in the execution. release - A
muscle movement opposite to contraction done when it let goes or let looses
of being held into a shortening movement.
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Collapse - To deliberately drop the exertion of energy into a body segment.

recover - The opposite of collapse. This is to regain the energy exerted into a
body segment.
Rotation - To rotate is to move a body segment allowing it to complete a
circle with its motion. It’s not only limited to circumduction which is done in
ball and socket joints. Rotation can also be done in wrists, waist, knees, and
ankles.
Twist - To move a body segment from an axis halfway front or back or
quarter to the right or left as in the twisting of the neck allowing the head to
face right or left and the like.
Pivot - To change the position of the feet or any body part that carries the
body’s weight allowing the body to face in a less than 360 degrees turn.
Turn - To move in a turning movement with a base of support, usually a
pointed foot, the other raised, while equilibrium is maintained until the
completion of the turn.

NAME OF STEP STEP PATTERN/ COUNTING (RHYTHM)

Close Step Step R sideward (1), Close Step L to R (2)
Bleking Step R. in place (1), Heel Place L in front (2)
Touch Step Step R sideward (1), Point L in Front of R (2)
Walk Step R forward (1), Step L forward (2)
Change Step Step R (1), Close Step L to R (and), Step R in Place
(2)
Cross Change Steps Cross R over L (1), step L sideward (and), step R in
place (2)
Hop Step Step R sideward (1), Hop R in place (2)
Mincing Point L in place (and), Step R in place (1), Point L in
place (and), Step R in place (ct. 2)
Cross Step Step R across L (1), Step L sideward L (2)
Heel-Toe/ Change Step Heel place R sideward (1), point L close to R (2),
change step with the R (Maybe repeated with L)
Elements of movements in space
Rhythm - Regular recurrence of a beat. It may be regular or irregular. In
basic music, rhythm is regular and metered (24, 34 or 44). They be slow,
moderate or fast. This element of rhythm is called tempo. Music dictates the
speed of movements we create.
Level- This refers to the level of movement. It may be low, when knees are
fully or slightly bent when executing movement; medium, if knees are
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normally straight when executing movement; high, if the heels are raised or
movements are done while off the floor.
Range-This element refers to the scope of movement execution. It is dictated
by the space provided. If the space is wide then movements shall be wide
and big. If space is limited then movements shall be small and limited too.
Floor Patter/Design-This refers to the designs created on the floor by the
bodies of dancers. They may be geometric or non-geometric formations.
Direction-This element adds to variety of movement. They may be
performed forward, backward, sideward, or even upward.
Focus-This is the focal point of dancers attention while moving in space.

Activity 3: Dance It
Now that you have recalled the basic movements you learned for the
past years. Make the celebration you have agreed upon be the theme and
your guide in creating the movements. You are expected to come up with
five figures of 16 counts each.

Activity 4: Festival Dancing and Fitness

In this activity, you will be provided with a review on the implication of
dancing activity to your fitness by way of determining your range of Target
Heart Rate. Let’s see if you can still recall.
This is how to determine your THR (Target Heart Rate) range. Follow
the steps provided and you’ll arrive at your own PMHR and THR which you
could use in determining the intensity of your dancing activity and raising it
to a higher level if necessary.

STEP 1:Find you PMHR in beats per minute by subtracting your age
from 220: • 220 - __________ = (your Predicted maximum heart rate)
Example: • 220 - 15 = 205 (PMHR of a 15 year-old individual)
STEP 2: You need to work out your lowest Target Heart Rate that you
need to aim for during exercise by multiplying your PMHR by 60% (or .6): •
_____(PMHR) x 60% (or .6) = (Lowest Target heart rate)
Example: 205 x .6 = 123 beats/minute (Lowest THR of 15 year-old
individual)

STEP 3: Lastly, you need to work out for your Highest Target Heart
Rate that you can aim for during exercise by multiplying your PMHR by 80%
(or .8): • _____(PMHR) x 80% (or .8) = (highest Target heart rate)
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Example: 205 x .8 = 164 beats/minute (Highest THR of 15 year-old

individual)

So, when you are dancing, you are aiming for the range of the two
figures you have come up with in Steps 2 and 3. In the example given, the
Target Heart Rate of a 15 year-old individual is from 123 to 164 beats per
minute during exercise. To maximize the benefits you can derive from social
dancing in relation to cardio-vascular fitness, you need to know your Target
Heart Rate Range. This helps you determine the intensity or level of exerted
effort you are pouring into your dancing.

1. Perform the same dance routine simultaneously 4 times with the music.
2. Stop and get your heartrate by placing your middle and pointing fingers
in your carotid pulse located just below your jaw, beside your throat. In 15
seconds, take your pulse. Multiply it by 4.
3. So, have you reached your minimum THR? If not yet, 5 repetitions is not
enough. Let’s dance more!
4. Do the same process in getting your THR.

VI. Assessment
Directions:
1. Perform a Festival Dance with the other members of your family.
2. Record a video of your performance and send it to your teacher.
You performance will be assessed using the following criteria:
➣ Concept/Theme 30%
➣ Variety of movements 30%
➣ Creativity (Application of the elements of movements in space) 40%

VII. Reflection
Direction: Answer the question.

1. Are you satisfied with your performance? Why or Why not?

2. While performing the festival dance, do you think you followed the steps
and procedures given to you? How did it help you?
3. In your own opinion, what is the importance of Festival Dance as part of
the Filipino Tradition?

VIII. References
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https://askinglot.com/what-is-the-festival-dance#
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.zenrooms.com/blog/post/festi
vals-in-the-philippines/amp/
https://www.slideshre.net/mobile/chelTobato/festival-dances
Physical Education and Health Learner’s Material

Prepared by:

CRYSTAL JOY AEPOLE C. GALAPON

Teacher II
Herminio G. Nicolas High School

Note: Practice Personal Hygiene Protocols at all times.