PE

• Before man can do anything, he must draw breath, he must move.
• Movement is the source and condition of life.
• To dance is to be out of yourself, larger, more beautiful, more powerful.
• This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
• The human being has an innate yearning for regular rhythmic movement, whether this is in the form of athletic, activities of daily living or dance.
• The human body is primarily an instrument for each, with dance using the body as an instrument of expression in time and space.
• Dance is an expression of the body following rhythmic patterns and is accompanied by music.
• Dance differs from athletics or other daily activities because it focuses primarily on an aesthetic or even entertaining experience.
• Dance is one of the oldest and most popular form of exercise.
• Dance uses the body as an instrument of expression in time and space.
• Dance focuses primarily on an aesthetic or even entertaining experience.
• Bodily shapes in dance refer to how the entire body is molded in space: the body can be rounded, angular or combination of two, wide to narrow, high to low.
• Energy in dance is about “how” - it refers to the force of an action and can mean both the physical energy and psychic energy that drive and characterizes movements.
• Six qualities of dance energies are: sustained, percussive, vibratory, swinging, suspended, collapsing.
• Movements in dance can be done in high, medium or low level.
• Bodily shapes in dance can be symmetrical or asymmetrical.
• Time in dance is the keyword for the element of time is “when”: the movement in timing may be executed in rhythmic patterns, beat/pulse, patterns, tempo, simultaneous or sequential timing.
• Movements in dance can be varied by doing larger or smaller actions.
• Direction in dance means that dance movements can travel in any direction: forward, side, backward, diagonal, circular and so on.
• In dance, performers may change their focus by looking at different directions.
• Dance is made up of streams of movement and pauses, so action refers not only to steps and sequences, but also to pauses and moments of relative stillness.
• Whether watching dance or dancing ourselves, we shift back and forth between the inner - outer sense of body.
• Action in dance is any human movement included in the act of dancing — it can include dance steps, facial movements, partner lifts, gestures, and even everyday movements such as walking.
• Space in dance refers to the area the performers occupy and where they move.
• The body is the conduit between the inner realm of intentions, ideas, emotions and identity and the outer realm of expression and communication.
• The skeletal system or breath is used in dance.
• Exercise is planned, structured, repetitive bodily movement done to improve or maintain one or more components of fitness.