The document discusses various types of ethnic dances from around the world. It defines ethnologic dances as those native to a particular ethnic group and religious rituals as dances designed as hymns or to bring good fortune. Folk dances are often derived from ethnic dances and developed among villages as a form of social dancing reflecting a people's customs. Examples of specific ethnic dances are then provided from Korea, Japan, Mexico, India, Texas, and England with brief descriptions of each dance's origins and cultural significance.
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The document discusses various types of ethnic dances from around the world. It defines ethnologic dances as those native to a particular ethnic group and religious rituals as dances designed as hymns or to bring good fortune. Folk dances are often derived from ethnic dances and developed among villages as a form of social dancing reflecting a people's customs. Examples of specific ethnic dances are then provided from Korea, Japan, Mexico, India, Texas, and England with brief descriptions of each dance's origins and cultural significance.
The document discusses various types of ethnic dances from around the world. It defines ethnologic dances as those native to a particular ethnic group and religious rituals as dances designed as hymns or to bring good fortune. Folk dances are often derived from ethnic dances and developed among villages as a form of social dancing reflecting a people's customs. Examples of specific ethnic dances are then provided from Korea, Japan, Mexico, India, Texas, and England with brief descriptions of each dance's origins and cultural significance.
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The document discusses various types of ethnic dances from around the world. It defines ethnologic dances as those native to a particular ethnic group and religious rituals as dances designed as hymns or to bring good fortune. Folk dances are often derived from ethnic dances and developed among villages as a form of social dancing reflecting a people's customs. Examples of specific ethnic dances are then provided from Korea, Japan, Mexico, India, Texas, and England with brief descriptions of each dance's origins and cultural significance.
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ETHNOLOGIC DANCE
Submitted by: Velasco, Ladie V. III-BSBA MA
Submitted to: Prof. Josephine Resquir
ETHNOLOGIC DANCE
Is native to a particular ethnic group. Are performed by dancers associated with national and cultural groups.
Religious Rituals (Ethnic Dances)
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Are designed as: Hymns of phrase to a god To bring in good fortune in peace or war.
Folk Dances
Are often derived from ethnic dances. Is a form of social dancing that has become part of the customs and traditions of people. Most folk dances developed among villages and were on from generation to generation in a particular region.
Folk Dances
Expose a great deal about the culture of the particular people including their: Beliefs Desires Interests Habits
Folk Dances
Has undergone much refinement, from a more lusty, and uninhibited dancing to a more refined dancing. It depicts a particular religion, typically reflecting the lifestyle of its people. It has grown to a larger dimension because it has been embraced and accepted enthusiastically by the people.
Examples of Foreign Ethnic Dances
KOREA
Pungmul - is a Korean Folk Music tradition that includes drumming, dancing, and singing. Most performances are outside, with tens of players, all in constant motion. Pungmul is rooted in the dure (collective labor) farming culture.
Examples of Foreign Ethnic Dances
JAPAN Kenshibu- (meaning 'sword and poetry dancing') is a category of Japanese interpretive dances performed to traditional music accompanie d by poetry known as shigin. Kenbu refers to dances performed with the aid of a sword, and shibu to dances performed with one or more fans. While fans may also be employed in some kenbu dances, not all require them.
Examples of Foreign Ethnic Dances
MEXICO Jarabe Tapato - known in English as the Mexican Hat Dance, is the title of the musical piece and the dance that accompanies it, which is accorded the title of the "national dance of Mexico". In the Spanish language, jarabe is a sort of dance (though the word is homonymous with one meaning "syrup" or "elixir"), and the adjective tapato indicates something from Guadalajara,Jalisco.
Examples of Foreign Ethnic Dances
INDIA Bhangra - pronounced (p a) is a form of dance and music that originated in the Punjab region. Bhangra dance began as a folk dance conducted by Punjabi Sikh farmers to celebrate the coming of the harvest season. The specific moves of Bhangra reflect the manner in which villagers farmed their land. This hybrid dance became Bhangra.
Examples of Foreign Ethnic Dances
TEXAS, USA "Cotton-Eyed Joe - is a popular American folk song known at various times throughout the United States and Canada, although today it is most commonly associated with the American South. In the Roud index of folksongs it is number 942. "Cotton Eyed Joe" (also known as "Cotton Eye Joe") has inspired both a partner dance and more than one line dance that is often danced at country dance venues in the US and around the world.
Examples of Foreign Ethnic Dances
England
English country dance - is a form of folk dance. It is a social dance form, which has earliest documented instances in the late 16th century. Queen Elizabeth I of England is noted to have been entertained by "Country Dancing," although the relationship of the dances she saw to the surviving dances of the mid-17th century is disputed. English Country Dance (ECD) was popular well into the Baroque and Regency eras.
