• Dance is a form of expression of oneself through

rhythmic movement.

• Dance is perhaps the oldest of the arts, reflecting

man’s age-old need to communicate joy or grief by
using the most immediate instrument at his disposal
– his body.
• Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully
selected sequences of human movement. This
movement has aesthetic and symbolic value, and is
acknowledged as dance by performers and observers
within a particular culture. Dance can be categorized
and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of
movements, or by its historical period or place of origin.
• refers to movement set to music where there emerges
organization, structure and pattern. It is a composition
that implies arrangement of parts into a form.
• Dancing - is a means of expressing one’s
emotions through movement disciplined by
rhythm. It is an act of moving rhythmically
and expressively to an accompaniment. The
word dancing came from an old German
word “ danson” which means to “ stretch”.
Essentially, all dancing is made up of
stretching and relaxing.
• Influences the diversity of our
cultural beginnings and the drama
of our everyday lives.

• It blends the exotic customs &

cultures of many countries races –
Indonesian, Malay, Chinese, Indian,
Spanish & American.
•The Philippine archipelago had been inhabited
by three different racial groups (Pygmies,
Indonesians, & Malays) even before the coming
of Magellan in 1521.

•The Negritos and Proto-Malays were the

descendants of the Pygmies.
•Filipinos possess natural grace, an inborn love for
music and dance. Dancing was considered a
religious activity among them. They danced for
many occasions – Birth, love, courtship,
thanksgiving, wedding, war, victory, marriage,
planting & harvesting, prosperous voyage,
recovery from sickness and healing of the sick.
•Filipinos are also lovers of rituals as shown in
ceremonial dances during town fiestas, Christmas,
Easter, Ash Wednesday.

•There were dances performed by the priests &

priestesses in the thanksgiving, for a plentiful harvest, a
victorious battle, a prosperous voyage/recovery from
sickness, to drive away evil spirits & in invoking their
gods and anitos.
• The setting of the social and ballroom
dance is a gathering with the more
formal atmosphere than the simple
and informal parties in which the
recreational dances are the usual
forms.
LATIN AMERICAN DANCES
• Cha-Cha
• Jive
• Samba
• Boogie
• Rumba
• Merengue

STANDARD DANCES
• Tango
• Quickstep
• Foxtrot
• Waltz
a cultural art form handed down from generation to
generation. It communicates the customs, beliefs,
rituals, and occupations of the people of a region or
country.

Examples of folk dances:

•Jotas
•Mazurkas
•Pandanggos
Examples of ethnic dances are the
dances of the mountain peoples of the
Cordilleras, dances of the ethnic groups in
the Cagayan Valley Region, and the
ethnic dances in the Mindanao Regions,
among others.
Contemporary dance is a style of expressive dance that
combines elements of several dance genres
including the mind and the body through fluid dance
movements. The term modern,jazz, lyrical and
classical ballet. Contemporary dancers strive to connect
"contemporary" is somewhat misleading: it describes a
genre that developed during the mid-20th century and
is still very popular today.
Hip-hop dance refers to street dance styles primarily
performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part
of hip-hop culture. It includes a wide range of styles
primarily breaking which was created in the 1970s and
made popular by dance crews in the United States. The
television show Soul Train and the 1980s films Breakin', Beat
Street, and Wild Style showcased these crews and dance
styles in their early stages; therefore, giving hip-hop
mainstream exposure. The dance industry responded with a
commercial, studio-based version of hip-hop—sometimes
called "new style"—and a hip-hop influenced style of jazz
dance called "jazz-funk".