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PMIQs
Let's do our PMIQs! Please reflect on what you've read in this chapter, and make a quick no about what you thought. Use the following to guide your analysis:
- P = Plus
- M = Minus
- I = Interesting
- Q = Questions
World Map Puzzle Stations!
Your teacher will place several world map puzzles around the dance classroom. You will for teams and compete to see who can get the world map puzzle completed. Winners will earn extra credit, a snack from a culture you are not yet familiar, or will not have homework this week! Either way, you all win by learning more about the places in the world. Let's puzzle!
Key Takeaways
Why Do Humans Dance?
Dance serves different cultural functions including art, stress relief, propaganda, courtship, work, healing, ritual, exercise as well as tells stories, religious or spiritual prayer to God(s), entertain, solidify a group’s identity, or defend a community. Dance is a transient mode of expression, performed in a given form and style by the human body moving in space. Dance occurs through purposefully selected and controlled rhythmic movements; the resulting phenomenon is recognized as dance by both the performer and the observing members of a given group (Keali’inohomoku, 1983).
Why Learn Dance History with Global Perspectives?
It is prudent to study world dance history in order to cultivate a global lens, to actively avoid ethnocentrism and view different cultural dance forms as expressions of a people who have their own sovereign history and ethnic pride. When we look at culture, we should be aiming to view dance with an emic approach, to attempt viewing dances from around the world through the perspective of that culture, rather than in a biased and judgmental stance of your own etic perspective. Developing a cultural lens might conjure greater harmony among nations and bring people together in a shared common humanity.
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