A development that is less formal than classical ballet.

Associated with rap music and has a speed of 16-bar measures (time frame).

An expression of the body, following Rhythmic patterns.

Classified to geographical venues and the nature of dances.

Dances of indigenous communities that show cultural traits of people in a specific time and place.

Ethnic dance is classified into two major categories. What are those categories?

It is usually to motivate sports teams, entertain the audience, or the actual competition.

It is from the primitive man expressing emotions in such events as birth, death, marriage, war among other things, dance has evolved to modern forms of social dancing.

It comprises a different number of dances.

It is usually celebrated through dance with their good harvest or good fortune.

The relationship of one movement or part of a movement to another. Includes pulse, speed, duration, rhythm, and phrases.

The speed with which a movement is performed.

A movement or shape is performed in such a way as to give emphasis.

A temporary accenting of a normally weak beat in music to vary the rhythm.

A pattern is made as a dancer moves through the air or on the floor.

A magnitude of body shape or movement; from small to large movements.

The form is created by the body’s position in space.

The following are the elements of dance, EXCEPT?

_______ is the degree of muscular tension and the use of energy while moving.

_______ is a flow of sound or movement having regular accented beats; a movement or activity in which some action repeats regularly; patterns made by arranging long and short sounds or strong and light sounds.

A series of steps. The steps are from one foot to the other. The weight is transferred from heel to toe.

A _____ may be compared to a fast walk except that the weight is carried forward on the ball of the foot.

A Spring from one or both feet, landing on both. On landing the balls of the feet touch the floor first, then the heels come down, the knees bend to absorb the shock of landing.

A spring from one foot landing on the same foot.

A fast step hop.

A glide followed by a quick close.

A spring on one foot landing on the other foot.

A series of stepping and cutting movements done either sideward or forward with one foot always leading.

Are movements through space that bring the body from one place to another.

A program sets the basis for rhythmic movement in all forms of dance activities through its stress on fundamental skills done in rhythm.

Locomotor and non-locomotor movements are the two centers of fundamental rhythm.

Non-Locomotor movement is the act or power of moving from one place to place.

Non-Locomotor or Axial Movements are the movement that moves around the axis of the body (spine) rather than a movement that takes the body through space.

Walking is an example of Non-Locomotor movement.

Hop is a spring from one foot landing on the same foot.

Gallop is a spring on one foot landing on the other foot.

Running on a treadmill is an example of locomotor movement.

Stretch is a rotation of some body parts around its long axis. It can only take place at the spinal, neck, shoulder, hip, and wrist joints.

A jump is a spring from one or both feet, landing on both. On landing the balls of the feet touch the floor first, then the heels come down, the knees bend to absorb the shock of landing.

Bend or flex is a movement of the arms, legs, upper trunk, head, or body as a whole in a circular of pendular fashion around a stationary center.