🕺 PE Q2 LT1 L?: Contemporary Dance Forms

Dance Forms

• One way to achieve your desire

• Movement of the body w/ expression

• no equipment

Zumba

• Well-known & popular activity for everyone loves dance and wants to lose weight.

• range of movements

• improves cardiovascular dance

• balance and coordination

• founded October 1998 by Alberto “Berto” Perez (Columbian Dancer in Columbia

• Originally named Rhumba

• Americans changed it to Zumba

HipHop Dance

• Cultural Movement

• best known for its impact on music

• Origins in Bronx and NYC

• 1910s from African Americans and Latin Americans

• Composed of

  • DJ-ing

  • Breakdancing

  • graffiti Art

• Street Dance styles

Street Dance

• Evolved outside of dance studios

• performed in streets

• Collection of various similar dance moves & styles put together in 1 practice

• regarded same dance

Cheerleading

• Cheer and Dance

• Shout out words and phrases that may help motivate

• express emotions and gestures

• origins in the USA

Contemporary Dance

• Expressive Dance

• Several Dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical, and classical ballet.

• mid 20th-century

• Freely express their feelings through body movement.

Pioneers of Contemporary Dance (ID, MG, MC)

• Isadora Duncan

• Martha Graham

• Merce Cunningham

Possible Benefits

• Help lose weight.

• Strengthen the bones

• Improve blood circulation

• improve flexibility, balance, and posture

• hand-eye-feet coordination

• best memory-sharpening brain workout

• cost-efficient

• grows your social circle