Dance Forms

• Interpretive Dance are dances that are ment to be interpreted for performances and staging.
• Examples of interpretive dance includes Folk Dance, Ballroom Dance, and Ballet
• Creative Dance is highly improvisational in nature considering the different elements necessary in the creation of dance.
• Examples of creative dances includes Modern-Contemporary Dance, Jazz, Pop, and Hip-Hop
• Action is the human movement included in the act of dancing.
• Floor Pattern created by the body as it moves through space, examples of which include lines, letters, shapes or polygons.
• Direction is the course or way in which movement is created with reference to the frontal plane of the body.
• Focus is the point of attention by either the performer or the audience.
• Dimension is how performers appear with reference to the audience view.
• Balance may be static or dynamic in nature.
• Static means rest, dynamic means in motion
• Levels are classified as low, middle and high with the lowest level the basis of middle and high levels.
• Mass and Volume is dedicated by the number of bodies performing through space.
• Contours and Shapes are forms created by the body or bodies as they move through space.
• Time in dance is represented by music specifically, and is predominantly influence by rhythm, tempo, dynamics, and melody
• Energy pertains to the amount of effort exerted in the performance of dance or dance movements and combinations.
• Locomotor Movement allows one to move from one point to another
• Non-Locomotor Movement these are the movements that are performed in one point in space without transferring to another point.
• Mirroring imitating the movements done by a dancer in face to face formation
• Succession is to repeat same sequence of movement or movement combination after every count, two, three or even four, depending on the need to repeat the movement
• Counterpoint is the levels of movement or energy application in the execution of movement
• Retrograde is repeating a movement sequence from the end to beginning
• Theme and Variation each movement combination has a common movement that is seen in a succession of movement combinations
• Unison this technique is the most commonly used in lengthening a dance movement
• Unison all movement combination are done simultaneously by all dancers
• Canon all groups performing the same sequenced movements with all arrive at a common movement an end at the same time