Physical Education - Module 13
Physical Education - Module 13
Physical Education - Module 13
LESSON
◦ Hip – Hop Dance
◦Hip – hop and street dancing is a broader style of dance with
various techniques and movements. Breakdancing, funky, and
uprock, which are first styles, were created in year 1970’s in the
United States. These dances where used for entertainment and also
a manner of competition among groups.
Basic types of Hip – Hop and Street Dance
1. B-Boying
◦ B-boying or breaking, also called breakdancing, is a style of street dance and the first hip-hop dance style that originated among Black and Puerto Rican
youths in New York City during the early 1970s.
◦ 4 Movements of B - Boy
A. Toprock
B. Downrock
C. Freeze
D. Power Moves
1. Popping
◦ Popping is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in a dancer’s body.
1. Locking
◦ Locking can be identified by its distinctive stops. It is usually performed by stopping the fast movements that you are doing, locking your body into a
position, holding it, and then continuing at the same speed as before.
1. Krumping
◦ It is free, expressive and highly energetic.
1. Tutting
◦ It is a creative way of making geometric shapes forming right angle using your body parts.
1. Shuffling
◦ The basic movements of the dance are a fast heel-and- toe action with a style suitable for various
types of electronic music. Some variants incorporate arm movements.
1. Waacking
◦ Waacking consists of stylized posing and fast synchronized arm movements to the beat of the music.
MODULE 11
BALLROOM AND SOCIAL DANCES : STANDARD
INTRODUCTION
◦ The word “Ballroom” is derived from the word “ball” (a large room) and “ballare” which
means to dance. The ballroom dancing was social dancing term for the privileged people
while folk dancing is more for the lower classes.
◦ Ballroom dancing was very popular among the gentry (or upper class) of England, in the
late 18th and early 19th centuries and didn’t really catch on with the working class until the
late 19th and early 20th century.
◦ The popularity of competitive dancing began in the early 1920’s. As a result, the Imperial
Society of Teachers of Dancing (formerly known as The Imperial Society of Dance Teachers)
formed a Ballroom Branch whose function was to standardize and ballroom dances.
Standard Dances
◦ Smooth/ Ballroom style of dance – these are flowing dances that move
around the entire dance floor in a counter – clockwise fashion.
◦ Examples are Foxtrot, Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz and Quickstep.
Ballroom Styles
Standard (International)
Waltz
Tango
Viennese Waltz
Foxtrot
Quickstep
WALTZ
◦ Waltz is one of the smoothest ballroom dances. It is a progressive dance marked by long, flowing
movements, continuous turns, and “rise and fall.” The dance is so graceful and elegant; Graceful and
elegant, Waltz dancers glide around the floor almost effortlessly. At 28 – 30 measures per minute, the
tempo is slow at best, but the expressive quality of the music often invites very powerful and dynamic
movement form dancers.
◦ There are several references to a sliding or gliding dance, a waltz, from the 16 th century including the
representations of the printer H. S. Beheim. The French philosopher Montaigne wrote of a dance he saw
in 1580 in Augsburg, where the dancers held each other so closely that their faces touched. Shocking
many when it was first introduced, the waltz became fashionable in Vienna around the 1780s, spreading
to many other countries in the years to follow. It became fashionable in Britain during the Regency
period, through the entry in the Oxford English Dictionary shows that it was considered “riotous and
indecent” as late as 1825.
◦ Trivia: When first introduced into the English ballrooms in the early 1800’s the Waltz was criticized by
both church and state for its vulgarity and immorality….. this was, after all, the first time society had
seen this despicable dance position, whit the man holding the lady so close to his body. But the very
thing that brought it such criticism also made it pleasing, and the Waltz was here to stay.
◦ Meter : ¾
◦ Tango is a dance that has influences from Spanish and African culture. Dances
from the candombe ceremonies of former slave peoples’ held shape the
modern day Tango. The dance originated in lower – class districts of Buenos
Aires. The music derived from the fusion of various form of music from
Europe. The word Tango seems to have first been used in connection with the
dance in the 1890s. The Argentine tango is characterized by staccato
movements of the feet and flexed knees, and stylized poses that highlight its
dramatic style.
◦ Trivia: Historians argue the name comes from the African candombe drum beat known as “tan-go”, or
possibly from Latin word tangere (to touch). The dance began as a pantomime of communication between
prostitute and pimp. The improvisation was filled with emotional outpouring and suggestive gyration. This
sexual choreography was accented by the melancholy drone of the bandoneon, a German instrument very
similar to the accordion.
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◦ Meter : 4/4
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◦ Music : Fast music in 3/4 or 6/8 time, often classical such as Waltzes.
◦ Compared with today’s standards, the original Foxtrot was moderately fast, simple
and unrefined, not unlike the music of the time. The popularity of the dance
stemmed from its overall versatility and rhythmic variation (Foxtrot is noted for
being the first dance to introduce the “Slow” count, before which time the popular
dances such as the Waltz and the One – Step had only a single – count rhythm). But
it wasn’t until the early 30’s that Foxtrot began to take on a smoother and more
flowing quantity in contrast to the new and exciting Latin dances hitting the scene.
◦ Style : Intl Standard (Ballroom)
◦ Meter : 4/4
◦ Meter : 4/4