Week 3

• Physical Activity Towards Health and Fitness 4: Dance - Appreciation - and - Composition
• This chapter focuses on appreciating and understanding what a good dance performance is.
• A good dance performance should have a significant meaning or convey a message.
• Dance may be presented abstractly and symbolically but still convey emotion and meaning.
• A good dance performance should transport the audience from their seats during the performance.
• Dance should have a beginning, middle, and ending/conclusion.
• Form is the instrument by which ideas and elements are arranged or combined into logical sequence which results in unity and consistency, and by means of which the content or idea can be expressed and communicated.
• The form should progress through time from the beginning to the end of the choreography.
• Each section of the choreography is composed of several units that are smoothly connected to each other, these units are called “phrase”.
• A phrase is the smallest unit of form in the whole dance.
• A good dance contains a theme or a motif to be able to convey its meaning to the audience.
• Unity in dance is when the interconnected phrases of the dance are coherent and flow smoothly together.
• Continuity and development in dance is when the phrases of the dance are organized progressively and there is a continuous development of the movement that the audience is swept along to the end.
• Variety and contrast in dance is when movement phrases add excitement and flavor to the dance.
• Transition in dance is the link between movements, phrases and sections of the dance.
• Repetition in dance is used to emphasize the significance of a phrase.
• Dance and music closely resemble in so many ways.
• The success of any dance performance may depend on who the evaluators are, evaluators’ roles are categorized as choreographers, dancers, and audience.
• Interpretation in dance involves appreciation of ideas, content, images, and style.
• Description in dance involves close observation of all the elements, characteristics and components of dance.
• Collage in dance consists of “a series of movement phrases that are often not related”.
• Evaluation in dance takes into consideration how effectively the features and the context of the dance have been utilized in the actual performance.
• Climax in dance is the point where the apex of energy in the dance is reached.
• Tableau in dance is performed simultaneously in the same space and connect transitional movements for each scene to produce a progression.
• Contrapuntal forms in dance involve the main theme seen against itself or against one or more themes, examples include Ground Bass, Round or Canon, Fugue of Accumulation, and Suite.
• Episodic form in dance is not musical, they are found in literature and they tell a story called episodes and narrative form is episodic, usually seen in a classical ballet.
• Sequential forms in dance include specific order AB (two-part) form, ABA (three-part ABACA (Rondo) Theme and variations.
• Natural structures in dance are structures such as seasons, life cycles, everyday life experiences.
• Selecting the structure which best expresses the dance idea is fundamental in choreographic form of dance.
• Chance in dance is performed in random and different order and therefore has different appearance.