Class Dance

The UC Dance is part of the training course of the student in the 1st cycle in Physical Education and Sport, scientific area Physical Education and Sport. It aims to acquire practical and theoretical dance content (covered by the three levels of specification of the PNEF), referring to the dance forms indicated in the Expressive Rhythmic Activities Area and respective didactics, in order to demonstrate knowledge and skills in order to provide bases for the intervention of the Physical Education and Sport professional.

It provides essential basic and transversal skills to professional performance, having as areas of action and intervention domains, knowledge of different styles/modalities of Dance, methodological progressions of teaching with an emphasis on improvisation and choreographic construction, through the development of its creative potential with intervention in the domains of Knowledge, Description, Interpretation, Application and Execution with correction.

1. Body and Movement Block
     1.1. Factors of movement (body, time, space and dynamics) and the different relationships between them;
     1.2. Improvise and comport movement sequence - Choreographic creation;
     1.3. Danced movement - video recording and writing
2. Popular Dance Block
     2.1. Identify and reproduce the selected repertoire - PNEF;
     2.2. Specific basic concepts, concepts and terminologies inherent to traditional dances;
     2.3. Ethnocoreographic register (description forms and traditional dance record);
     2.4. Choreographic creation: recreating the traditional;
3. Block of Social Dances - hall
     3.1. The two major groups of ballroom dances: modern and Latin American;
     3.2. The dances contained in the national programs according to the factors: Body, Space and Rhythm;
     3.3. Specific basic concepts, concepts and terminologies inherent to the dances contained in the PNEF;
     3.4. Perform, individually and in pairs, the choreographic threads learned.

Theoretical and theoretical-practical classes (experiential learning) will be taught and the b-learning system (moodle) will be used, where support materials will be available for each of the classes (dance videos, music, descriptions of techniques and support sheets).
In continuous assessment: students will have to participate effectively in 70% of classes and perform all evaluation moments with a rating equal to or higher than 9.5 and never less than 7.5. Students who rank between 7.5 and 9.4 will be subjected to an extra task specific to the deficit part of the matter.
The classes will be mostly theoretical-practical (where experiential learning, group and individual work on learning dance content will apply.
The final classification results from the theoretical-practical performance (70% referring to the practical evaluation and 30% referring to the theoretical evaluation of the contents developed in each Block).

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