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Physical
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Module
Brief History and Nature of Dance
5
What I Need to Know
This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to
help you master the Brief History and Nature of Dance. The scope of this
module permits it to be used in many different learning situations. The
language used recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of students. The
lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the course. But the
order in which you read them can be changed to correspond with the
textbook you are now using.
Hello! Have you tried dancing at home or in any place that makes you dance
with music you heard? What do you fell after dancing? What have you
noticed about your heart beat, did it pump fast?
This module will help you describe the brief history and nature of dance.
Essential Learning Competency:
• Self- assesses health- related fitness (HRF) status, barriers to physical
activity assessment participation and one’s diet (PEH12FG-Ig-i-6)
Objectives:
At the end of this module, you as learner is expected to:
a. Describe the nature of the different dances by creating an organization
map
b. Show appreciation in the history of dances by pointing out the
benefits of dance in each era.
c. Create dance steps incorporating the health- Related Fitness
Component as a self- assessment.
What I Know
ACTIVITY 1- PRE-TEST
Instructions: Identify what Health-Related Component of Fitness is best used in
each activity. Write the word/s of the correct answer before the number.
STRENGTH MUSCULAR ENDURANCE FLEXIBILITY
AEROBIC CAPACITY BODY COMPOSITION
CARDIOVASCULAR ENDURANCE
1. Lifting a barbell
2. 2-minute plank
3. Dancing ballet
4. Jogging
5. Maintaining a healthy diet
6. Learning gymnastics
7. Carrying a heavy bag to school
8. Monitoring calorie intake
9. Wall Push-ups
10. Doing sit and reach
What’s In
During your elementary days have you tried to participate in any field
demonstration or dance during school activities? If yes, you will appreciate
this lessons that talks about dance history. Are you ready? Let’s begin…
What’s New
I hope you are excited about the activities that you are going to do in
this module. Now, I want you to read and understand the nature of dance.
What is Dance?
An act or instance of moving one's body rhythmically usually to
music: an act or instance of dancing.
Features:
• Movement of body which includes hands, arms and head.
• Movement from one space to another.
You will now learn and understand in this module the Nature of Dance…
What is It
DIFFERENT ERAS OF DANCE
Primitive Cultures
The term ''primitive cultures'' was used by the first anthropologists to
describe non-European groups of people and their customs because they
believed, and not always correctly, that they were closely related to
prehistoric cultures. As the term has a somewhat biased and negative
connotation, especially when used in comparison to Western culture,
contemporary anthropologists use other words, like ''bands'' and
'tribes.
https://study.com/academy/answer/how-was-dance-used-in-primitive-cultures.html
Primitive Culture Dance Era in the Philippines
The following are various indigenous dances of the major ethnic
groupings of the Philippines
Igorot
There are six Igorot ethnolinguistic
tribes living in Luzon's mountain terrains:
the Bontoc, Ifugao, Benguet, Apayo, and
the Kalinga tribes, which retained much
of their anito religions. Their lives have
been centered on appeasing their gods
and maintaining a harmonious
relationship between spirits and man.
Dances are usually linked to rituals for a
good harvest, health, prayers for peace,
and safety in war.
http://www.reflectionsofasia.com/folkdance_props1.htm
Moro
The Moro people are
the various usually
unrelated Muslim Filipino
ethnic groups. Most of their
dances are marked by
intricate hand and arm
movements, accompanied
by instruments such as
the agong and kulintang.
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Cynthia/dances/vinta_couple_on_bamboo.htm
Lumad
The non-Islamized natives of Mindanao are collectively known as
the Lumad people. Like the Tagakaulo, they still practice worshiping anitos
through dance.
https://www.pinterest.de/AsiaCostumes/mp-ph-lumad-tagakaolo/
Ancient Egypt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_ancient_Egypt#/media/File:Female_topless_e
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The ancient Egyptians were a dance-loving people. Dancers were
commonly depicted on murals, tomb paintings and temple engravings.
Ideographs show a man dancing to represent joy and happiness. Pictorial
representations and written records from as early as 3000 B.C. are offered
as evidence that dance have a long history in the Nile kingdom. According to
the International Encyclopedia of Dance, “dance was part of the Egyptian
ethos and featured prominently in religious ritual and ceremony on social
occasions and in Egyptian funerary practices regarding the afterlife. "The
study of ancient Egyptian dance is based mostly on identifying dance scenes
from monuments, temples and tombs and translating and interpreting the
inscriptions and texts that accompanied them. [Source: International
Encyclopedia of Dance, editor Jeane Cohen]
According to the International Encyclopedia of Dance, dances were
performed “for magical purposes, rites of passage, to induce states ecstasy
or trance, mime; as homage; honor entertainment and even for erotic
purposes." Dances were performed inside and outside; by individual’s pair
but mostly by groups at both sacred and secular occasions.
Dance rhythms were provided by hand clapping, finger snapping,
tambourines, drums and body slapping. Musicians played flutes, harps,
lyres and clarinets, Vocalizations included songs, cries, choruses and
rhythmic noises.
Dancers often wore bells on their fingers. They performed nude, and
in loincloths, flowing transparent robes and skirts of various shapes and
sizes. Dancers often wore a lot of make-up, jewelry and had strange hairdos
with beads, balls or cone-shaped tufts; Accessories included boomerangs
and gavel-headed sticks. The hieroglyph for heart was a dancing figure.
http://factsanddetails.com/world/cat56/sub365/entry-6140.html
Greek and Bacchanalian Dance
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Dance, according to Greek thought, was one of the
civilizing activities, like wine-making and music.
Most Greek Mythology was written by poets, like
Homer, and as the spiritual sustenance for its
people, dance communicated its wisdom and truth as effectively as words.
The strong dancing tradition prevalent among the Greeks was likely
inherited from Crete which was conquered by Greece around 1500 BC but
Greece was very effective in synthesizing the best from surrounding
cultures, its poets and artists borrowed significantly from surrounding Pyria
and Thrace and its scholars were being initiated into the Egyptian mysteries
by temple priests long before Alexander the Great conquered Egypt.
Learning to dance was considered a necessary part of and education
which favored learning an appreciation of beauty.
Ancient Greece drove a sharp distinction between the Apollonian
dance and the Dionysian dance. The former – the Apollonian dance – was
accompanied by guitars called lyres, lutes and kitharas. It was a ceremonial
dance incorporating slower cult dances performed during religious festivals,
as well as martial and social dances performed during communal events and
funeral practices. The Dionysian or Bacchanalian dance, associated with the
cult of Dionysus, is about passion, panic and desire. It is an “orgasmic”
dance with breathtaking moves whose purpose is to connect all to a frenetic
dance vibration. The synthesis of the Apollonian and the Dionysian is the
art of dance. The tension between these opposites played an instrumental
role in the shaping of the ancient Greek theatre and the birth of tragedy in
the evolution of the arts for civilization.
http://www.carnaval.com/greece/dance/
Christianized Filipinos
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Pre-Colonial
Before the recorded history of the Philippines, before the Spanish
conquistadors conquered and Christianized the populace, from the earliest
occupation of this volcanic archipelago, the people danced. They danced to
appease the gods, to curry favor from powerful spirits, to celebrate a hunt or
harvest, to mimic the exotic life forms around them. They danced their
stories and their shamanic rituals, their rites of passage and their
remembered legends and history.
Rural dances include such favorites as the high-stepping Tinikling, which
mimics a bird, and the Gaway-Gaway, which features the movements of
children pulling the stalks of the gaway roots during a bountiful harvest. The
pagan tribes, the Higaonon, Subanon, Bagogo, and others who have inhabited
the Philippines for thousands of years, preserved their customs and symbolic
dances. Partly through isolation, they kept their culture free from the influence
of the waves of immigrants who settled the archipelago over the centuries.
Today, tribal dances like Dugso (a dance of gratitude for a good harvest or a
male heir, danced with ankle bells), Sohten(an all-male war dance) and Lawin-
Lawin(another male dance which mimics a swooping, soaring eagle) are
carefully documented and kept alive in performance by Filipino folk dance
troupes and cultural institutions, such as the Parangal Dance Company.
https://dance.lovetoknow.com/Philippine_Folk_Dance_History
Nobility
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Baroque dance is the conventional name given to the style of dancing
that had its origins during the seventeenth century and dominated the
eighteenth century until the French Revolution. Louis XIV was a major
influence in its development and promotion. Even at the age of fourteen,
Louis was an accomplished dancer: as the sun god Apollo in the ‘Ballet de la
Nuit’ (1653), he became Le Roi Soleil, an image that he was to cultivate
throughout his life. His courtiers were expected to dance in his new style at
the formal balls, and they performed in court ballets, in rather a similar
fashion to what was considered appropriate to Stuart court masques.
During 17th century dancing had not only a great social importance, but
could also carry political importance.
In 1661, Louis founded the Acadé mie Royale de Danse. This academy
was responsible for devising a system of notation (first published by Raoul
Auger Feuillet in his book Choré graphie in 1700) to enable dancing masters
more readily to assimilate the new style of dancing and to learn new dances.
https://www.earlydancecircle.co.uk/resources/dance-through-history/baroque-dance-
17th-and-18th-centuries/
Early Renaissance Period
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As the arts and sciences
flourished in the European
Renaissance, dance quickly rose to
preeminence. Dance increased in
sophistication and social importance
through the 14th century, but
unfortunately no choreographic
descriptions survive from this
century. It is from preserved music
tabulatures and literature, such as Boccaccio's Decameron, that we know the
names of these lost dances, which include the balli, carola (carole), stampita
(estampe, istampita, stantipes), salterello, rotta, trotto and farandole. Only treatises
from later centuries give us any hint as to what these 14th century dances
might have looked like.
The 15th century is the first period in western history to have dances
documented well enough for reconstruction. Several surviving manuscripts
describe the dances of the aristocracy, for whom dance was an important courtly
pastime. The dances from the northern courts (primarily Burgundy – a large
area north of the Alps including some of present-day France, Germany
and the Netherlands) tended to be conservative and Gothic. Southern France
(Provence) was more innovative, while Italy was the hotbed of the avant garde.
The primary dance of the Burgundian court was the stately Bassedanse.
This was a memorized sequence of steps performed as a processional, danced to
music in "perfect" (i.e. triple) time. One surviving Burgundian dance source is the
beautiful handwritten Brussels manuscript, penned in gold and silver ink by an
anonymous scribe. The Italian courts also danced the Bassadanza (as they spelled
it), although it was lighter in spirit and somewhat more intricate than the
Burgundian Bassedanse. But the epitome of Italian court dance was the Ballo.
The 15th century Balli was beautifully designed choreographies for a set number of
dancers that featured a wide variety of steps, figures and rhythms. Unlike the
Bassadanza, the music and dance phrases of the Balli were inseparable.
http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/early_renaissance.htm
Courts of Europe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance
_dance#/media/File:Robert_Dudley_Elizabeth_
Dancing.jpg
Renaissance dances belong to the
broad group of historical dances.
During the Renaissance period, there
was a distinction between country
dances and court dances. Court
dances required the dancers to be
trained and were often for display
and entertainment, whereas country dances could be attempted by anyone.
At Court, the formal entertainment would often be followed by many hours
of country dances which all present could join in. Dances described as
country dances such as Chiarantana or Chiaranzana remained popular over
a long period – over two centuries in the case of this dance. A Renaissance
dance can be likened to a ball.
Knowledge of court dances has survived better than that of country
dances as they were collected by dancing masters in manuscripts and later
in printed books. The earliest surviving manuscripts that provide detailed
dance instructions are from 15th century Italy. The earliest printed dance
manuals come from late 16th century France and Italy. The earliest dance
descriptions in England come from the Gresley manuscript, c.1500, found in
the Derbyshire Record Office, D77 B0x 38 pp 51–79. These have been
recently published as "Cherwell Thy Wyne (Show your joy): Dances of fifteenth-
century England from the Gresley manuscript". The first printed English source
appeared in 1651, the first edition of Play ford.
The dances in these manuals are extremely varied in nature. They
range from slow, stately "processional" dances (bassadance, pavane, almain)
to fast, lively dances (galliard, coranto, canario). The former, in which the
dancers' feet were not raised high off the floor were styled the dance basse
while energetic dances with leaps and lifts were called the haute dance.
Queen Elizabeth I enjoyed galliards, and la spagnoletta was a court favorite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_dance
What’s More
Direction: Fill in the box to come up with the complete word/phase . Write
your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
1. A fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic
“rebirth” following the middle ages.
2. A dance developed by people that reflect the life of the people of a
certain country or region.
3. A Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and
revelry.
4. An act or instance of moving one's body rhythmically usually to
music.
5. It refers to distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or
guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution.
Good job! I know you can do it! More exciting activities a
head Good luck!
What I Can Do
Dance a Folkdance.
Itik-Itik is a Philippines folk dance form created by imitating the
“movements of a duck” such as wading, flying, and short steps and
splashing water on their backs like the ducks do.
This “mimetic” folk dance is said to have originated from the province of
Surigao in Philippines. Apparently, this dance form is said to have been
popular in towns such as Carrascal, Cantilan, Lanuza, and Carmen.
https://danceask.com/itik-itik-philippines/
The Itik-Itik
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Have fun with this dance. The Itik-Itik is sometimes described as
humans making the motions of a duck, so feel free to improvise along with
these basic steps.
1. Step to your left and raise your left arm up in a flowing motion.
2. Step to your right and raise your right arm up in a flowing motion.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 seven times.
4. Step forward and bring your hands into your chest, bending your
elbows and making sure to point your hands inward. Repeat seven
times.
5. Step in a circle as you sway your arms to the right, then to the left.
6. Raise your arm and step hop to the left.
7. Raise your arm and step hop to the right.
8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 five times.
9. Sway to the right, then to the left. Repeat six times.
10. Repeat all steps three times.
https://dance.lovetoknow.com/Filipino_Folk_Dance_Steps
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