key words

• Accessory


  An additional item of costume, for example gloves
• Actions


  What a dancer does, for example travelling, turning, elevation, stillness, use of body parts, floor work, and transference of weight
• Acceleration


  Speeding up movement
• Accompaniment


  The sound you hear during a dance, for example percussion
• Accumulation


  When a dancer performs a series of movements and others join in at different times until all perform in unison
• Air Pattern


  A design that is traced in the air by a part of the body
• Alignment


  Correct placement of body parts in relation to each other
• Appreciation


  Recognition and understanding of the qualities of dance
• Artistic Intention


  The aim of a dance; what the choreographer aims to communicate
• Artistry


  Creative skill
• Auditory


  Relating to sound
• Aural setting


  An audible accompaniment to the dance such as music, words, song and natural sound or silence
• Balance


  A steady or held position achieved by an even distribution of weight
• Binary


  A composition in two parts or sections
• Canon


  When the same movements overlap in time
• Choreographic approach


  The way in which a choreographer makes the dance
• Choreographic devices


  Methods used to develop and vary material
• Choreographic intention


  The aim of the dance; what the choreographer aims to communicate
• Choreographic processes


  Activities involved in creating dance such as improvisation, selection and development
• Choreography


  The art of creating dance
• Climax


  The most significant moment of the dance
• Complementary


  Perform actions or shapes that are similar to but not exactly the same as another dancer's
• Constituent features


  Characteristics of choreography such as style, stimulus, subject matter, number/gender of dancers, action content, choreographic principles, form and structure, physical and aural settings
• Contrast


  Movements or shapes that have nothing in common
• Control


  The ability to start and stop movement, change direction and hold a shape efficiently
• Coordination


  The efficient combination of body parts
• Costume


  Clothing warn by dancers in performance
• Counterpoint


  When dancers perform different phrases simultaneously
• Critical appreciation


  Evaluation of dance based upon knowledge and understanding, including original insights
• Dance film


  Where dance and film are both integral to a work; this includes documentary, animation, dance for camera and a screen adaption of a stage work
• Dance for camera


  Where the choreographer collaborates with or is the filmmaker; where the intention is to produce a dance work in a multi-media form that cannot be achieved in live performance
• Dancewear


  What the dancer wears for class and rehearsal
• Deceleration


  Slowing down the movement
• Development


  The way in which movement material is manipulated
• Direction


  The facing of a movement
• Dynamics


  The qualities of movement based upon variations in speed, strength and flow
• Elements of dance


  Actions, space, dynamics and relationships
• Elevation


  The action of going up without support, such as in a jump
• End-stage


  A performance space with the audience on one side, also known as end-on
• Episodic


  A choreography with several sections, linked by a theme