Dance key terms

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  • Technical skills
    Action content
    Dynamic content
    Spatial content
    Relationship content - (lead and follow, mirroring, action and reaction, accumulation, complement and contrast, counterpoint, contact, formations)
  • Technical skills
    Timing content
    Rhythmic content
    Movement in a stylistically accurate way
  • Choreographic devices:
    Motif and development
    Repetition
    Contrast
    Highlights
    Climax
    Manipulation of number
    Unison and canon
  • Physical skills:
    Strength
    Flexibility
    Stamina
    Isolation
    Extension
    Mobility
    Control
    Coordination
    Balance
    Alignment
    Posture
  • Mental skills (during performance):
    Movement memory
    Confidence
    Concentration
    Commitment
  • Safe working practices (process):
    Nutrition
    Hydration
    Warming up
    Cooling down
  • Mental skills (process):
    Mental rehearsal
    Capacity to improve
    Response to feedback
    Planning of rehearsal
    Systematic repetition
    Rehearsal discipline
  • Expressive skills:
    Phrasing
    Facial expression
    Spacial awareness
    Focus
    Projection
  • Safe working practices (during performance):
    Appropriate dance wear (footwear, hairstyle, jewellery)
    Safe execution
  • Choreographic processes
    Improvisation
    Selection
    Development
    Researching
    Generating