technical skills

• action content

  travel, turn, elevation, gesture, stillness, use of different body parts, floor work, transfer of weight
• dynamic content


  fast/slow, sudden/sustained, acceleration/deceleration, strong/light, direct/indirect, flowing/abrupt.
• spacial content


  pathways, levels, directions, size of movement, patterns, spacial design
• relationship content


  lead and follow, mirroring, action and reaction, accumulation, complement and contast, counterpoint, contact, formations
• rhythmic content


  repeated patterns of sound or movement
• timing content


  the use of time or counts when matching movements to sound or other dancers
• style


  characteristic way of dancing