HUM 10 – ART APPRECIATION
MODULE 2: LESSON 7 - DANCE
NAME: Jethro L. Malabar
SECTION: IT 1A
INSTRUCTOR: JANRY M. ORTEGA, LPT
Instruction: Answer the following questions below with a minimum of 5 sentences each
question. (10 points each)
1. How does dancing affect your everyday life?
According to Integrity Dance Center (2019), dancing affect our daily life
by allowing people to become more active and be able to socialize with others.
Dancing also helps with the strengthening of the muscles. It also develops the
creative and physical self. Dancing is also a good stress reliever since it allows
you to have some fun and forget the things that gives you burden even just for a
short time. Dancing can also help with our relaxation because through dancing,
we can just express what we feel by the way how we perform the dance.
2. Is dance considered as an art? Why or why not?
According to the website Art. Art (2021), in THE article “The Art of Dance;
Choreography, Movements, & History”, dance is actually a performing art. It is
because dance can transmit culture, emotions, tell stories and can be used to
show our creativity and skills in body movements. Just like any other form of art,
dance has its own unique characteristics that makes it stand-out among the
other form of art. Dance or dancing also gives inspiration to some artist since
dancing is an art that involves movements. By the use of a set of movements, an
artist can express his emotions or feelings more efficiently.
3. What is choreography? And how it affects in dancing?
According to Southcoast Dance School (2017), “choreography is the
process of designing the dance steps to correspond with specific styles of
dances throughout a performance.” Choreography involves a series of
movements that allows a dance performance to have its own or unique
movement patterns. Choreography also helps the dance performs to be in sync
and organize. The choice of music can also be considered in choreography. The
dance steps should be in match or follows within the rhythm of the music in order
for the dance to be more understandable and more elegant to watch. In
choreography, every details and movements is actually observed.
4. Research the following topic:
a. The significance of dance in music
According to Sites at Penn State (2015), the significance of music
on dance is that music sets the mood, drop the beat, and create the
motivation needed to start movements in a dance piece. Music also
can affect the way how we let our emotions flow in every movements
or step we make in a dance piece. Music also has different styles that
can be corresponded to a certain type of dance. Music also adds life
to a dance performance and also allows the choreography to
become more efficient. Music allows a dance piece to become more
understandable.
b. The importance of dance to humans
According to IvyPanda (2019), dancing helps an individual to
improve his or her posture, strengthen the muscles and also helps their
emotional aspects. Dancing can an individual to stay fit no matter of
his or her age. It can improve the blood circulation and the condition
of lings and heart of those who perform dancing. Also, dancing does
not only covers the physical aspect of an individual, but also his or her
mental health. Dancing can help in relaxing and reliving the stress of a
person. In general, the importance of dancing is that it helps an
individual to stay physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy.
5. How is dance a tool for promoting peace in a particular territory?
According to Jeffrey (2015), dance has a potential to promote peace by
creating opportunities for nonverbal, embodied learning, exploring, identity and
relationship. Dancing can be an alternative dialogue in expressing peace to a
certain territory. For instance, if there will be cases that words or talking about
peace became noisy and people cannot hear one another, then dancing can
be another medium to get the attention of the people and express the idea of
peace. Through this, dance can be used as a tool to promote peace in a
certain territory. Also, since dance involves movements and can also involve
music, one can express or interpret his or her idea of peace more efficiently. As a
common saying says “Action speaks louder than words”, then dancing could
actually be a good tool for promoting peace.
Essay Rubrics:
FEATURES 10-EXPERT 7-ACCOMPLISED 5-CAPABLE 2-BEGINNER
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extraordinary interesting style voice. Gives Gives no new
style and and voice. some new information
voice. Somewhat information and very
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informative organized organized organized
and well
organized.
Grammar, Virtually no Few spellings A number of So many
Usage and spelling, and punctuation spellings, spellings,
Mechanics punctuation errors, minor punctuation punctuation
or grammatical or and
grammatical errors. grammatical grammatical
errors. errors. errors that it
interferes with
the meaning.
