Prof. Lordinio A. VergaraDirector, Center for Sports

DevelopmentFormer Head, Center for Cultural Arts

Philippine Normal University

Learning Area Standard

The learner demonstrates understanding of the concept of physical activities in achieving, sustaining, and promoting an

active lifestyle for health, lifelong fitness and wellness.

The learner demonstrates understanding of integrating physical activity behaviors in achieving a healthy lifestyle

Key Stage Standard

BENEFITS OF DANCE EDUCATION

In a policy statement on dance education by the National Dance Association in the United States, the following justifications were cited for the incorporation of dance into the curriculum:

1. Dance as an art is a form of education – it clarifies and intensifies the human experience.

Aesthetic Benefit

2. It reinforces formal learning, as it relates to other academic areas.

Intellectual Benefits3. It provides an alternative to the usual modes of education and is valuable in reaching children who may not respond to more formal modes of teaching.4. It promotes self- and social awareness, helping students confront and understand themselves, and cooperate effectively with others.

Social and Cultural Benefits

5. It promotes a fuller understanding of one’s own culture and those of other peoples’.6. It promotes good health and may be of particular value to students with physical or mental disabilities.

Physiological Benefits

Generally, these six points can be classified into four groups, with each group constituting a particular benefit. E.g. Points 2 and 3 are values that benefit the intellectual development of students.

Preliminary Arrangements Knowing the Group Developing Lesson Plans Teacher Preparation Teaching a Single Dance Dance Styling Group climate in Dancing

Quarter 4: Local and Indigenous Dances

The learner demonstrates understanding of local and indigenous Philippine dances that promote physical fitness.

The learner performs skillfully local and indigenous dances as physical activity that promotes physical fitness.

1. Discuss the nature/background of local and indigenous dances

2. Explain significant benefits to health and fitness when folk dancing

3. Perform basic steps peculiar to each dance

4. Execute rhythmic patterns of selected local and indigenous dances through various ways

5. Describe costumes, props and accessories of local and indigenous folk dances

6. Interpret dance figures correctly following the step by step instruction of the teacher

7. Perform figures of the dance with grace, form and sense of rhythm

Quarter 4: Regional/National Dances with Asian Influence

The learner demonstrates understanding of regional and Philippine National Dances to promote the fitness, health and wellness of the family.Binislakan/Sakuting/ Sua-ko-Sua/Pangalay

The learner performs skillfully regional and Philippine National Dances to promote fitness, health and wellness in the family.

1. Promote folk dancing as a physical activity within the family

2. Trace the origin/location of folk dance by its costume/music

3. Execute rhythmic patterns of selected regional and national dances with Asian influence (Binislakan/Sakuting/ Sua-ko-Sua/Pangalay)

4. Demonstrate mastery of basic steps in folk dancing

5. Identify the meaning of the gestures and hand movements of folk dance identified

6. Interpret folk dance literature

7. Relate folk dancing to the enhancement of one’s character through cultural education

Quarter 4: Social and Ballroom Dances

The learner demonstrates understanding of the benefits that can be derived from engaging in social dances to promote community wellness.Social danceBallroom dance

The learners participate actively with members of the community in performing and/or patronizing social and ballroom dances to promote physical activities as a means to achieve lifelong fitness, health and wellness among the members of the community.

1. Discuss the nature and background of social and ballroom dances

2. Describe the benefits of social dancing in the community

3. Demonstrate fundamentals of social and ballroom dances

4. Create other styles and combinations of social dances for the community

5. Engage consistently in social and ballroom dances with the community to attain health and fitness

Quarter 4: Other Dance Forms (Hip-hop, Street Dance, Festival Dance, Contemporary etc.)

The learners demonstrate understanding of the benefits that can be derived from engaging in other dance forms to achieve lifelong fitness.

The learners participate actively with members of the society in performing and/or patronizing other dance forms to promote physical activities as a means to achieve lifelong fitness, health and wellness among the members of the society.

1. Discuss the nature and background of other dance forms

2. Identify the benefits of participating in other dance forms

3. Demonstrate fundamentals of other dance forms

4. Create other styles of other dance forms

5. Engage consistently in other dance forms to appreciate worldwide trends and improve one’s fitness and health.

Dances belonging to group without Western influences. In pre-colonial days, pagan rites were practiced all over the islands. Animistic rituals to celebrate planting, harvest, birth, death, and all kinds of community activity were common occurences.

Community dances that emanates among the people of the area commonly with Spanish and American Influences. These dances were introduced by Spain to replace ethnic dances in the different festivities celebrated in the region.

MODULE 4 Session 1 – Overview of Philippine Folk

and Ethnic Dances Session 2 – Understanding Local and

Indigenous Dances Session 3 – Dance Movements of

Selected Local and Indigenous Dances Session 4 – Other Philippine Folk Dance

Movements and Steps

Session 5 – Understanding Tinikling Session 6 – The Basics of Tinikling Session 7 – The Cultural and Fitness

Benefits of Tinikling Session 8 – Tinikling Challenge

Choreography is the art of planning and arranging dance movements into a meaningful whole; the process of building a dance compositions.

Choreographer – a person responsible for composing, presenting a dance on stage, and supervising a production.

The Process of Presenting Folk and Ethnic Dances

on Stage

Should it be attempted? Will the whole effect – dance, music,

and costumes – be of interest to the intended audience?

Can it be faithfully represented within the limitations of the staging process?

Can both music and dance be reasonably performed by the available performers?

Aesthetics

Composition

Costuming

Chronological and Geographic Integrity

Music