Basic Techniques for Teaching Dance and Styles of Dance

Question 1

What are “called” movements?

Answer 1

spin, jump, forward, back move your hips, 5 6 7 8! ;)

Question 2

How do you teach dance to children? (What are good elements for this)?

Answer 2

• Easy to remember moves
• “called” movements
• can teach children about various cultures
• enhance their aesthetic appreciation
• can show symbolism/emotions (open happiness, closed body, fear)

Question 3

What are moodras? (sp?)

Answer 3

Indian dance, specific symbolism, (like their hands, specific moves)

Question 4

In different cultures what could dance serve as?

Answer 4

rights of passage, birthdays, weddings, important events, religious events,
Native americans = Rain dance
European culture = Maypole dance, Romans, honor flora, bring SPRING
-also just for fun :)

Question 5

What are “performance” dances?

Answer 5

• takes years of training, complex movement, highly trained

- ballet tap, jazz,

Question 6

Ballroom dance

Answer 6

• dances that were done in Balls. the Balls were held by Aristocrats, victorian era. How they socialized. (their version of bar hopping!) lead to cueing system. People that have never danced together, can.
• includes waltz, hustle, swing (Lindy hope, west coast), salsa, tango, mambo and others.
• SOCIAL dances, based on a learning system of movements and CUES a leader may use to communicate with partner who follows.

Question 7

Waltz

Answer 7

started in early 1800s. Considered very scandalous. Now formal. Dance is very rooted in time and place,

Question 8

Folk dances

Answer 8

traditionally Commoners dance, instead of aristocrats.

• learned informally and passed down to children
• clogging, morris dance, and square dancing
• Chain dance- done by commoners in medieval Europe. Later became popular with nobility

Question 9

Dance in Asia

Answer 9

-kept it a singular entertainment form.
dance, drama, and opera were all together, opposed to separately as they did in the west. Because of the emphasis on honoring tradition, they keep their dances the same, very few new forms.
-done to entertain nobility.
-Eastern styles- audience can come and go as they please. can even go back stage

Question 10

Dance can also serve as… (besides enjoyment)

Answer 10

political and social commentary.

Ex: Cake walk, african americans, they were making fun of hawty slave owners, making social statements.

Question 11

How are new dance styles often formed?

Answer 11

they build upon or combine elements of previous dance styles. all intertwined. Tap dancing= Irish jig, clogging, all come together to a new form.