technical skills

• action content

  • refers to what is happening in the dance

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

  • refers to how the dancer moves
  • (e.g fast/slow, sudden/sustained, acceleration/deceleration, strong/light, direct/indirect, flowing/abrupt)
• spatial content

  • refers to how the movement of dancers is organised in the dancing area
  • (e.g pathways, levels, directions, size of movement, patterns, spatial design)
• relationship content

  • the way in which the dancer moves with other dancers
  • for duet/trio performance only(e.g lead and follow, mirroring, action and reaction, accumulation, complement and contrast, counterpoint, contact, formations)
• timing content
• rhythmic content 


  Repeated patterns of sound or movement.
• movement in a stylistically accurate way