Exploring Personal Heritage Through Dance : Yoga Dance

A) Yoga Dance will be what the presentation is based off of. If you will work to create a seven to ten-minute (7 – 10 min.) presentation on Yoga Dance.
B) The presentation should explore the cultural significance and critically analyze the yoga dance form, looking at both the historical development and
current expression as seen through a physical demonstration.
C)The speaker notes are to be formed in the answers to these questions: •How did this dance form develop historically? What country did it start in?
Why did it begin? •What does the dance form look like? What are its characteristic movements or shapes? •Who are the people who perform this
dance? What is the cultural significance of this dance form to the people who perform it? Are the performers themselves significant to the culture? If
so, how? •What was the social impact of this dance form? Is it used in celebration of a religious ceremony, a civil or political ceremony? Is it a form of
community building or ritual of growth/passage? •What do people wear to perform this dance form? What is the significance or importance of the
different elements of the costume? Are men and women, old and young, higher and lower ranking, performers dressed differently? •Where is it
typically performed? (On a stage, outdoors, in temple, in a home, etc.) Is it performed at a certain time of year, time of day, etc.? Is the length of the
dance culturally significant?