Technical skills

• Actions 


  Travel

  Turn

  Gesture
• Space


  Levels

  Directions

  Pathways
• Dynamics


  Fast & slow

  Acceleration & deceleration

  Flowing & abrupt
• Relationships


  Contact

  lead & follow

  Action & reaction
• Define gesture


  when you move a part or the whole of your body but not using your weight
• Define pathways


  Designs traces in space e.g. circular pathway
• Define levels


  distance from the ground (high, medium, low)
• Define Patterns


  Designs crested with dancers on the floor
• Define lead & follow


  One dancer initiating the movement and others following
• Define mirroring

  Replicating the actions of another dancer on the opposite side of the body
• Define accumulation

  A method of canon where dancers join in
• Define counterpoint 


  Performing different phrases at the same time
• Define contact 


  Dancers interacting with one another through touch