5. Movement Categories

Question 1

What are all the movement categories?

Answer 1

Gesture, elevation, falling, travelling, turning and stillness

Question 2

What is the acronym for movement categories?

Answer 2

GEFTTS

Question 3

What is the acronym GEFTTS for?

Answer 3

Movement categories

Question 4

Define gesture

Answer 4

Movements of any isolated body part executed singly or in combination with other actions.

Question 5

Define elevation

Answer 5

Actions that result in the upward change of levels in a dancer’s body or body part. It can refer to whole body movements and/ or to actions of limbs or body parts that are raised or lifted.

Question 6

Define falling

Answer 6

Movements which result in the downward change of level of the body or body parts, from one level to a lower one.

Question 7

Define travelling

Answer 7

Movements that the dancer uses to traverse the space from one location to another.

Question 8

Define turning

Answer 8

Amount of rotation of a body or body parts around a vertical or horizontal axis.

Question 9

Define stillness

Answer 9

Control of movement that results in the stillness of a single parts, multiple parts or the whole body.