COMPONENTS OF DANCE

ILLUSTRATION OF TUMBLING SKILLS

FORWARD ROLL

BACKWARD ROLL

CARTWHEEL

AERIAL CARTWHEEL

FORWARD HANDSPRING

BACK HANDSPRING

BACKTUCK

DANCE AND ITS ELEMENTS

Interpretative Dance

Dances that are meant to be interpreted for performances and staging.

Dance literatures and signature basic steps are already inherent to these dances which serve as identifying steps to the dance.

Such dances include folk dance, ballroom dance, and ballet.

 

Creative Dance

Dances that are created out of two approaches, the elemental approach and creative approach.

These dances are highly improvisational in nature considering the different elements necessary in the creation of dance.

Dances that fall under this classification include modern-contemporary dance, jazz,

pop and hip-hop (b-boying).

Elemental Approach in the Creation of Dance

1. SPACE

Floor Pattern

Patterns created by the body as it moves through space examples of which include lines, letters, shapes or polygons, and other non-geometric patterns.

Direction

The course or way in which movement is directed with reference to the frontal plane of the body.

Examples include forward, backward, sideward, diagonally sideward and upward.

. Focus

Point of attention by either the performer or the audience.

Personal focus is the point of attention by the performer while performing, while general focus is the point of attention that the performer draws the audience to

It may be a personal focus or general focus.

Dimension

- How performers appear with reference to the audience’s view.

The nearer the performer, the bigger he would appear; the farther the performer, the smaller he would appear.

Dimension has something to do with perspective

Balance

It may be static or dynamic in nature. Static balance is balance

at rest, while dynamic balance is balance in motion

Levels

They are classified as low, middle and high with the lowest

level the basis of middle and high levels.

Reminder: you are advised to do level 1 or low level lifting ONLY.

Mass and Volume

This is dictated by the number of bodies performing through space.

There are dances or parts of the dance performance that require more dancers while some require less or few.

Contours and Shapes

- Shapes and forms created by the body orbodies as they move through space.

2. TIME

Dance is both a space and time art because it makes use of space and spends time as movements are executed.

Once time passes and movements are executed, it may or may not be the same when done again.

That’s why live performances of dances are preferred to maximize its artistic and aesthetic values, which are put on full display when performed live.

Time in dance dictates and determines its speed or length, its mood, and the energy required in its performance.

Time in dance is represented by music specifically, and is predominantly influenced by rhythm, tempo, dynamics and melody. Rhythm guides the movement count, tempo dictates the speed of movement, and dynamics and melody speak of the mood of movement.

3. ENERGY

Pertains to the amount of effort exerted in the performance of dance or dance movements and combinations.

Energy in dance makes the difference in terms of the intensity of movement.

Two dancers might be executing same movement, but differ in the manner of execution and level of energy exerted.

ASSIGNMENT

1.What is a locomotor movement ?

2.What is a non locomotor movement?

3.Give the definition of the ff:a. WALKb. RUN

C. JUMP K. TWISTD. FLEXION L. PIVOTE. EXTENSION M. TURNF. CONTRACTIONG. RELEASEH. COLLAPSEI. RECOVERJ. ROTATION

WRITE YOUR ANSWER IN A 1 WHOLE SHEET OF PAPER TO BE PASSED NEXT MEETING.

-MR. ORTIZ AND MRS.CRUZ