G2 Q3 Week 1 Rhythmic Activities and pattern

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1. Rhythmic Activities This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY

2. What is Dance ? Dance  – inner impulse of man to rhythm or music expressing his feelings of joy, moods, sentiments or any human experience. Do you know? Our body moves to the beat or to the rhythm of a song or music that we hear? We can jump. Walk. Hop and move different ways in response to the music that your heard.

3. Rhythm  – regular pattern of sound and or movement   Rhythms  – movement activities with musical accompaniment.   Rhythmic Activities  – rhythmic movements using the body as a means of expressing a communication. Can be either being through fundamental rhythms using locomotor or axial movements or in higher form of dance.

4. IMPORTANCE OF DANCE   1. Dancing is a key to good health     2. Dancing is a fun social activity   3. Dancing is a skill that can be always used 4. Dancing is a natural stress reliever 5. Dancing is a great confidence booster

5. 1. Even      – walking, running, jumping, hopping, and leaping   2. Uneven – skipping, galloping, and sliding   Some movements respond to even rhythm while some respond to uneven rhythm. The locomotor movements that respond to even rhythm are walking, running, hopping. jumping, and marching. These are performed with an equal amount of time between each movement. See the pattern below:   Walking : step. step, step, step   The locomotor movements that respond to uneven thythm are galloping. skipping, and sliding. These movements are performed with one movement longer or shorter than the other. See the patterns below. The lines represent how long or short each movement is done: step, hop, step, hop, step, hop step, close, step, close

6. ELEMENTS OF DANCE MOVEMENTS

7. ELEMENTS OF DANCE MOVEMENTS   1. ENERGY  -  As applied to dance, energy describes an exertion which initiates, controls, and stops movement. The quality of a dance movement is determined by the way energy was used.   Intensity  – when a dancer moves, he can exert effort more or less intensity, ranging from almost imperceptible tension to a violent burst of energy.   Accent  – occurs when some stress of either greater or lesser force is displayed.   Quality  – Dance movement quality is determined by the way energy is used.

8. 2. SPACE  -  Movements exist in space; which to a dancer means a potential of position and dimension.   Position  – includes a dancer’s level in regard to the floor surface and the direction in which he is moving.   Dimension  – refers to the size of the dancer’s movement. Size is related to the dancer’s range of movement both in space and on the floor surface.    Design  – refers to the arrangement of the movements according to a pattern.  

9. 3. TIME  - Dance movement uses energy to fill space, but it must do so within time.   Tempo, or speed  of dance movement, is determined by the time span in which a given series of movement is completed, the period in which the dancer’s body must accomplish a sequence of actions.   Rhythm , requires a structuring of movement patterns.   Focus of the eyes  is important in dance movements.  Balance  is enhanced when the eyes are focused on a stationary point and the communicative aspect of dance is  given emphasis when punctuated by focus.   Technique , or the degree of body control and mastery of basic steps and positions, is very much necessary for dance movements to clearly show the dancers purpose in moving along with gestures, especially hand movements.

10. How does dancing help the person or individual? How about the differently abled person? Can they still enjoy dancing?