Topic 2 WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A MODERN DANCER

• To be a good dancer, one must be focused on learning what?

  the correct skills
• Enumerate the dance skills:

  Posture

  Alignment

  Balance

  Coordination

  Control

  Flexibility

  Mobility

  Strength

  Stamina

  Extension

  Isolation
• For Posture, Good posture is important because it?

  It provides you with a strong base to build the rest of the skills onto.
• A good Posture is?

  the correct formation of the body where your bones and muscles can hold you upright against gravity
• For alignment, Alignment focuses more on the?

  the placement of your body, not so much on the way you are standing.
• Alignment is important if?

  You are dancing with a group of people, since you want to be in the right place to be in sync with the choreographed routine
• For Balance, Balance is important because?

  it helps you achieve elaborate moves while dancing.
• Keeping your balance will help you to?

  Stay upright while performing allowing you to avoid slipping and falling
• Aside from that, good balance can also help you what?

  Expand the types of moves you can execute
• For coordination, being coordinated is?

  one of the most important skills
• You can either be coordinated while?

  while dancing alone or in a group.
• Therefore, coordination refers to what?

  Refers to knowing where your body should be and when to move it.
• Having good coodination will help your moves?

  Look smooth to the audience
• In a group setting, coordination is essentially being?

  Being in syn with the other dancers, making the perfromance look fluid
• for control, having good control will? and define control

  make you a solid dancer. This is when you can start and stop performing on command. This also applies to while standing still during performance.
• Control is important while doing a stance so that?

  You do not appear to be moving
• for flexibility, Flexibility is important because?

  you will be able to perform almost any move.
• The term flexibility means?

  The range of motion that is availbale to you through your joints.
• If you are flexible, what?

  it will be easy for you to do things like splits.
• For mobility, Mobility is important because?

  You will be able to transition from move to move very quickly without much struggle.
• What is the term that goes hand and hand with mobility

  Quickness
• For strength, good dancers possess what?


  A lot of strength mainly in their arms and legs. This allows them to push off the floor elegantly and execute moves without struggle.
• for stamina, stamina is very important if you compete in what?

  dance tournaments or long routines.
• Stamina is defined as?

  the amount of energy that you cna expand during an activity. Having a lot of stamina will keep you in shape during the routine and keep you from being sloppy
• for extension, it is often used in where? and what is it?

  Extension is often used in ballet, it refers to the ability to rise theier leg up their head.
• Being able to extend will do you well when?

  It comes to learnig how to dance
• Isolation refers to?

  Moving only one part of your body while keeping everything else still.
• Isolation will give what to the audience?

  rhythm and wow to the audience