DANCE_2

• The ____is the instrument of dance. Just as a painter paints with a brush, in dance it is through the ____ that movements appear

  BODY
• is any human movement included in the act of dancing.

  ACTION
• Action can include dance steps, facial movements, lifts, carries, and catches, and even everyday movements such as walking. Actions can travel (locomotor) or move on the spot (non-locomotor).
• Is where the body moves. It is the area occupied by the dancer’s body; includes direction, size, pathways, levels and shapes

  SPACE
• Direction: which way a dancer faces or moves; e.g., forward, backward, sideways, up and down.
• Size: magnitude of a body shape or movement; from small to large movements
• Pathways: patterns made as a dancer moves through the air or on the floor (straight, vertical, horizontal, zig-zag); can be made with locomotor or nonlocomotor movements, separately or in combination
• Levels: the vertical distance from the floor. Movements take place on three levels: high, middle or low and deep.
• Shapes: the form created by the body’s position in space. Aspects of shape are open/closed, symmetrical/asymmetrical, angular and curved
• TIME: The relationship of one movement or part of a movement to another
• • Degree of muscular tension and use of energy while moving.
  • It refers to the force of an action.

  ENERGY
• Dynamics: how a movement is done; how the body moves

  Flow: continuity of movement (bound/free flowing/balanced/neutral)

  Weight: strength or lightness of movement (heavy/light)
• Choreography is the art of arranging dances
• Theme: the basic idea of the dance, which the choreographer dramatizes through the conflict of characters
• Rondo: a dance structure with three or more themes where one theme is repeated. ABACAD
• Narrative: choreographic structure that follows a specific story line to convey specific information through a dance
• Variations: contrasts in the use of the dance elements, repetitions.
• a classic form of dance growing out of the French nobility

  BALLET
• Its root is court dances.

  BALLET
• is a percussive dance form in which dancers produce sound by wearing shoes to which metal taps have been adde

  TAP
• an American dance form which concentrates on footwork and rhythm, has roots in African, Irish and English clogging traditions.

  TAP
• Its roots lie in recreational dance (Irish Step dance, jig and African steps

  TAP
• American music marked by lively rhythms with unusual accents and often including melodies made up by musicians as they play

  JAZZ
• Its roots are in social dances and early musical theatre dance

  JAZZ
• a form of dance developed by dancers interested in breaking from ballet traditions and expressing a more liberating form of movement

  MODERN
• It expresses complex emotions and abstract ideas

  MODERN
• We will look at three basic but important aspects that dancers need to focus on to develop strong posture

  proper breathing,

  balance, and

  core stability