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Dance Lecture

Dance is a multifaceted activity serving various purposes such as recreation, therapy, and social interaction. It encompasses elements like space, timing, energies, and bodily shapes, which contribute to its artistic expression. Line dance is highlighted as an accessible form of dance characterized by straightforward steps and a unified direction among dancers.

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Dance Lecture

Dance is a multifaceted activity serving various purposes such as recreation, therapy, and social interaction. It encompasses elements like space, timing, energies, and bodily shapes, which contribute to its artistic expression. Line dance is highlighted as an accessible form of dance characterized by straightforward steps and a unified direction among dancers.

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Dance

Dance - is an activity which can take many forms and fill many
different needs. It can be recreation, entertainment, education, therapy
and religion. In Its purest and most basic form, dance is an art, the art of
body movement (Barbara Mettker, 1980).

Although there have been immense comparative


differences in period and culture, people still dance mainly in
four reasons:

a. to please gods
b. to please others

c. to please themselves or
self-expression

d. to build community w/in an


ethnic group or social interaction.
Specific Benefits of Dance

CULTURAL

PHYSICAL

MENTAL / EMOTIONAL

SOCIAL
Elements of Dance
SPACE – this is the area the performers occupy and where they move.
Four Aspects of Space

a. Direction

b. Size

c. Level

d. Focus
Elements of Dance
TIMING - this can be barriers by moving faster or slower than the
normal beat. When a sequence of a movement or group of phrases
is done in varying tempos, they generate rhythmic patterns. The
addition of silences or pauses also adds to rhythmic patterns.

DANCE ENERGIES –a propelling force or energy. Force can either


initiated or stop an action. Dance uses different energies and a varied
use to these minimize the monotony of the movement in a
performance.
Elements of Dance

BODILY SHAPES – it refers to how the entire body is molded in


space or the configuration of the body parts. The body can be
rounded, angular, or combination of two. Other body shapes can be
from wide to narrow and from high to low. They can be symmetrical
and asymmetrical.

GROUP SHAPE – dancers are arranged in ways that they are


wide, narrow rounded, angular, symmetrical or asymmetrical and
viewed together as a total picture or arrangement within a picture
frame (Minton, 2007).
Line Dance
Line Dance
- are very easy to learn
- the steps are straightforward
- involve repeating series of steps
- dancers face the same direction
thru out the dance

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