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• Body


  The mobile figure or shape, felt by the dancers, seen by others
• Body in dance


  • Dancers may emphasize specific parts of their body in a dance phrase
  • Dancers may use their whole body all at once
• Action


  Any human movement included in the act of dancing, including dance steps, facial movements, partner lifts, gestures, and even everyday movements such as walking
• Space


  Dancers interact with space in countless ways, such as staying in one place or travelling from place to another, altering the direction, level, size, and pathways of their movements
• Time


  Dance movements may show different timing relationships, such as simultaneous or sequential timing, brief to long duration, fast to slow speed, or accents in predictable or unpredictable intervals
• Energy


  How the movement happens
• Choices about energy


  • Variations in movement flow
  • Use of force, tension, and weight
• Arm gesture


  • Free flowing and easily stopped
  • Powerful and tight or gentle and loose
  • Heavy or light
• Festival dances


  • Strengthen the culture of a community
  • Promote products and honor saints or heroes
  • Develop fundamental movement skills
• Types of festival dance

  • Religious festival
  • Secular festival
• Religious festival


  Festivals dedicated to patrons, gods, saints, and others related to religion
• Secular festival


  Celebration of people's industry and bountiful harvest
• Rhythm


  Regular recurrence of a beat
• Rhythm


  • Can be slow, moderate, or fast
  • Music dictates the speed of movement we create
• Level


  Refers to the level of movement, may be low, medium, or high
• Range


  Refers to the level of movement, may be low, medium, or high
• Floor pattern


  Refers to the designs created on the floor by the bodies of dancers, may be geometric or non-geometric formations
• Direction


  Adds to variety of movement, may be performed forward, backward, sideward, or upward
• Focus


  The focal point of the dancer's attention in space while moving
• Locomotor movements


  Movements that allow you to move from one point in space to another, derived from "locos" which means place and "motor" which means movement
• Non-locomotor movements


  Movements performed in one point in space without transferring to another point, do not allow you to move from one place to the other