Chapter 3: The Constituent Features of Dance: Movement

Question 1

What are the 4 constituent features of dance?

Answer 1

1. movement components
2. dancers
3. physical setting
4. aural setting

Question 2

what are the 6 dance actions?

Answer 2

1. gesture
2. elevation
3. turn
4. travel
5. stillnes
6. fall

Question 3

what are the 3 phases of movement?

Answer 3

preparation

action

recovery

Question 4

What are two types of fslling?

Answer 4

1. a coolapse: relaxed successive giving in which happens over the centre of gravity
2. an off-balance fall: centre of gravity shifts off-centre making falling unavoidable

Question 5

What are the space components?

Answer 5

1. Personal and general space
2. Floor and air patterns
3. Directions
4. Planes
5. Levels
6. Size of movement
7. Focus
8. Shape and volume

Question 6

What are floor an air patterns?

Answer 6

patterns made by travelling on the floor and gesturing in the air

Question 7

What are the effects of directions?

Answer 7

forward=assertive authoritative

backwards=retreat defensive

jumping up=lively

falling down= lifeless

sideways=sneaky

Question 8

What are the three planes?

Answer 8

Sagittal Plane:

divides the body right to left,

movement in plane: travelling backwards and forwards

axis: anterior-posterior back to front

Frontal Plane:

divides the body back to front

movement in plane: rise and fall jumps

axis: vertical up to down

Horizontal Plane:

divides body top from bottom

movement in plane: open and close-spins turns twist from waist

axis: horizontal side to side

Question 9

What is phrasing?

Answer 9

actions joined together in a simple unity with a beginning middle and end to reate a sense of unity and logic. individual and group timings give a dance its form and clarity because it allows the audience to find a visual sense. breath can be a strong influence in phrase duration

Question 10

What is dynamic?

Answer 10

when force and time act together dynamics result

force relleases energy through the body there if free or bound flow

Question 11

What are the components of reletionships between dancers?

Answer 11

1. contrasting and complimenting body shapes
2. group formations
3. spaces between dancers
4. relationship between dancers in time
5. non-contact and contact