Dance

• What's in the image?

  Igorot

  
• What's in the image?

  Moro

  
• What's in the image?

  Lumad

  
• What's in the image?

  Ancient Egypt

  
• Hand position

  Bucket

  
• Hand Position

  Candlestick

  
• Hand position

  Blade

  
• Hand position

  Jazz Hands

  
• Hand position

  Clap

  
• Hand position

  Clasp

  
• Arm position

  Flying V

  
• Arm position

  Overhead Clasp

  
• Arm position

  Dagger

  
• Arm position

  Box

  
• Arm position

  L motion

  
• Arm position

  Punch

  
• Arm position

  K motion

  
• Arm position

  Checkmark

  
• Body Position

  Beginning Stance

  
• Body Position

  Cheer Stance

  
• Body Position

  Side Lunge

  
• Body Position

  Squat

  
• Dance


  An act or instance of moving rhythmically one's body usually to music
• What are the dance techniques used in cheer dance competitions?

  • Contemporary
  • Jazz
  • Hip-hop
  • Modern dance
  • Contemporary ballet
  • Ethnic or folk dance
• Dance techniques 


  depending on the competition requirements, various dance techniques may be used in a cheer dance competition
• The term "primitive cultures" was used by the first anthropologists to describe non-European groups of people and their customs because they believed, and not always correctly, that they were closely related to prehistoric cultures.
• There are six Igorot ethnolinguistic tribes living in Luzon's mountain terrains: the Bontoc, Ifugao, Benguet, Apayo, and the Kalinga tribes.
• Igorot


  Dances are usually linked to rituals for a good harvest, health, prayers for peace, and safety in war
• The Moro people are the various usually unrelated Muslim Filipino ethnic groups
• Moro


  Most of their dances are marked by intricate hand and arm movements, accompanied by instruments such as the agong and kulintang
• Lumad


  The non-Islamized natives of Mindanao are collectively known as the Lumad people.
• Ancient Egypt 


  Dancers were commonly depicted on murals, tomb paintings and temple engravings
• Aerobic 


  it entails about an hour of "continuous exercises, choreographed to music."
• Dance is one of the oldest and most popular forms of exercise
• Elements of Dance

  Space

  Timing

  Energy or Force

  Bodily Shape

  Symmetrical

  Asymmetrical

  Group Shapes
• Types of Space

  Direction

  Size

  Level

  Focus
• Types of energy/force

  Sustained

  Percussive

  Vibratory

  swinging

  Suspended

  Collapsing
• Space


  this is the area the performers occupy and where they move. It can be divided into four different aspects, also known as spatial elements.
• Direction 


  dance movements can travel in any direction. The performers can go forward, side, backward, diagonal, circular and so on.
• size


  movements can be varied by doing larger or smaller actions.