Pe 2 Chapter 1 Dance
Pe 2 Chapter 1 Dance
Pe 2 Chapter 1 Dance
DANCE
1. THE ART OF DANCING
Dance involves a successive group of bodily motions and steps rhythmically performed and timed
to music.
Dancing is both an art and a form of recreation. As an art, a dance may tell a story, set a mood,
or express an emotion. A form of recreation, dancing has long provided fun, relaxation, and
companionship.
It can be traced that dance as an art started from the moment it was harnessed to a rhythm,
probably the stamping of the feet and clapping of the hands. It is an art ever present in the
performer’s bodies till they die. It was only recently that the movements of dances were recorded
and used in films and in television shows.
Dance has primitive beginnings. It can be deducted from the behavior of primitive tribes surviving
today that the rhythm that spurred on the dances mostly came from the best sustained through
the stamping of the feet on the ground.
In earlier times, a supplication to the Gods was the beginning of the religious aspect of dancing.
It is believed that the more grotesque kind of dancing in plays and spectacles were developed
by the Romans. This brought the theatrical form of dancing into disrepute.
FUNCTION OF DANCE
1. In many societies, dancing has been used in workship.
2. Throughout history, dancing has also played a role in courtship.
3. Children dance because of the joy they feel.
4. Some primitive peoples believe that dances bring them magic powers. They danced to
bring victory, or to restore health to life.
5. Much of our social dancing it’s for the sake of companionship.
6. They dance to give beauty and inspiration to others.
Dancing serves many other purposes. For many people, dancing provides one of the most
personal and affective means of communication. And it provides for us a release of tension in
our body.
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3. COMPONENTS OF THE DANCE
1. THE DANCER it is through the body of the dancer that at art dancing is portrayed, and the
physical, emotional and natural characteristics of the dancer determine the quality and
the nature of the dance.
2. CHOREOGRAPHER is the arranger of dances, either for a soloist or for a group and is the
most important figure in dance history. He has a creative mind that invents the order and
combination of steps, the pattern of group dances, and the communication of narrative
by using familiar actions in new and more complex ways.
3. ACCOMPANIMENT TO THE DANCE sound for the dancer who is blessed with conscious
rhythm and can perform highly complex and stylish movements in silence.
4. THEATRICAL EFFECTS every device of costume, make-up and theatrical effects.
THEME it’s the content or the main ingredient of the dance. It tells us what a dance is trying to
tell or convey. It has something to do with the message of the dance
DESIGN refers to the planned organization or pattern of movement in time and space.
MOVEMENT is the action of dancers as they use their bodies to create organized patterns.
KIND OF DANCES
Varied in form, the dance may be performed for religious, magical, commemorative, ceremonial,
recreational, or entertainment purposes some type which are important are the following:
a. TINIKLING is our national dance. All attired in native apparel, the balintawak and
barong tagalog, the onlookers cheer as a couple dance, skipping between
bamboo poles.
b. BANGA literally means clay pot, used as water for food containers these clay pots
are balanced on the head of Igorot women as they wind up and down the
mountain trail.
c. BILAAN is a dance that depicts the lively, simply movements of birds in flight and
as they preen themselves, beautifully portrayed tribal maidens. Costumes worn are
typical of the ethnic tribe Bilaan from Cotabato.
d. ITIK-ITIK is native dance interpreting the playfulness of ducklings wading in the river.
e. JOTA CAVITIŇA is that shows strong Spanish influence. Costume is elaborately
embroidered “Maria Clara” and “Barong Tagalog”. Castanets, fashioned from
bamboo, provide clacking sounds adding to the lilting music.
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f. PANDANGGO SA SAMBALILONG is a flirtation dance from Bulacan. It shows a barrio
swain and his lady love play and dance with a native hat. He tries to show off by
picking the hat from the ground without using his hands.
g. SAYAW ED TAPEW NA BANGKO a couple “showing off” their skills while dancing on
top of a long and narrow bench.
h. SINGKIL is a famous dance from Mindanao. The princess, prince and their retinue,
in a pose of the Singkil. This is an intricate dance where the dancer’s feet dart
precariously in and out of a complicated pattern of clacking bamboo poles.
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a. BALLET is the formalized type of dance which as its origin in the royal courts of the
Middle Ages.
b. MODERN DANCE is a dance form characterized as natural and free. It does not
stick to conventions, and has varied styles of movements, usually based on the
current trend.
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RHYTHM
Is the arrangement of sounds as they move through time.
In Music, the placement of sounds in time. In its general sense rhythm (Greek rhythmos, derived
from rhein, “to flow”) is an ordered alternation of contrasting elements. The notion of rhythm also
occurs in other arts (e.g. poetry, painting, sculpture, and architecture) as well as in nature (e.g.,
biological rhythms).
RHYTHMIC ACTIVITIES
- Activities where one responds to music physically and emotionally to any rhythmic
accompaniment.
FUNDAMENTAL RHYTHMS
2. Parts of a Note
flag
stem
head
3. Meaning and Different time signature
It is the number of beats per measure and a kind note that receives one beat.
“Common Time”
“Cut Time”
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Two beats per measure Half note gets the beat
“Waltz Time”
“6/8 Time”
4. Beat
Is the basic unit of time
Is a steady of a pulse
5. Count
Refer to things that can be divided up into smaller units which are separate and
distinct each other.
6. Measure
A measure is the section of a staff that comes between two barlines (or bar lines).
Each measure satisfies the specified time signature: a song written in 4 time will hold
four quarter note beats per measure.
7. Bar
Vertical line in a measure
8. Double Bar Line
Two vertical lines, symbolizes to a top measure of a song.
9. Sound
Is created when an object vibrates. These vibrations are perceived by our ears and
then sent to our brain. Our brain in tum analyzes these signals and lets us know what
type of sound we are hearing (i.e. an alarm clock ringing, a car horn blaring, etc.
Music is differentiated from other sounds because it has certain qualities.
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MOVEMENTS COMMON TO ALL DANCES
All forms of dance involve movement of the body. Although dance movement may at times be
confined only to the body which are NON-LOCOMOTORS or AXIAL MOVEMENT.
GRAPHIC PRESENTATION
A walk, leap, jump and hop are all done to an even beat, sometimes designated as long
and represented graphical as:
count 1 count 2
LONG LONG
counting interval
SLIDE the weight as transferred from one foot to the other by means of a step on one foot followed
by a quick drawing up of the other foot, with an immediate transfer of weight to it, resulting in a
sideward movement.
GALLOP is similar to a slide, except the gallop
moves forward, and the foot executing the
leap is brought up to but not beyond the foot
that has completed the step.