1. Just Dance!!

2. Warm Up and Cool Down
You want to warm up and cool down to prevent injury.

3. Body Alignment
Head up
Back Straight
Shoulders Back

4. Elements of Dance Space- area where you dance
Personal space- distance between people
Spatial relationships- distance between partners

5. Elements of Dance Force- energy to do movements Fast to slow
Rough to smooth

6. Elements of Dance
Time- counting of steps and duration of the song

7. Types of Dance
Theatrical Dance- performed on stage before an audience or judges
Social Dance- Dance for fun (School Dance)

8. Theatrical Dances
Ballet- started in the courts of Italy. Early works were historical. Later works added magical story themes.

9. Social Dancing Square Dancing Done in groups of 4
Formations:
running set (a circle)
Longways (2 lines)
Format: Call and response

10. Social Dancing
Folk Dancing- taught to each generation normally in a circle format
See here

11. Folk Dancing
Ireland- hands normally at the sides. Soft or hard tap shoe worn.
Scotland- same as Ireland except they do arm movements
Latin- passionate dances. Cha-Cha, Rumba, Mambo, Tango, Lambada
Africa- ceremonial dances
Native American- ceremonial dances, tribal

12. Folk Dancing Hawaii- Hula is done to chants and music
China- dance and drama are combined
Japan- also combined with drama are “No” and “Kabuki”

13. Purposes of Dance Ceremonial- religious
Recreational- entertainment or exercise
Artistic- theatrical/ ballet

14. Body Movements Locomotor- feet move/ run, skip, jump, leap, kick
Non-locomotor- feet DON’T move (upper body) bend, twist, turn

15. Compositional Forms of Dance
AB- two different parts
ABA- 3 parts, but A repeats
Call & Response- square dancing
Narrative- tells a story
Rondo- repeats movement

16. Tinikling National dance of the Philippines