Choreographic devices - cry

Question 1

Name and define six choreographic devices?

Answer 1

1. embellishment = to add detail eg. a hand or head
   movement
2. transposition = transfer a movement to a different body
   part
3. repetition = a movement, motif or phrase repeated in
   exactly the same way
4. augmentation = making the movement larger in space
   and time
5. insertion = adding new material into the movement
   phrase
6. addition = the process of adding one movement to the
   next or one phrase to the next

Question 2

Brief account of first response?

Answer 2

• repetition in resolution section
• ball change step while holding onto skirt, then turns
• E.I displayed is happiness as she celebrates the CRA
• repetition creates the effect pf emphasis and intensifies
  the E.I (elaborate on E.I)

Question 3

structure of choreographic device response?

Answer 3

• state what device and what section
• explain M.V relevant to the device
• E.I of the movement
• how the device creates the E.I

Question 4

Brief account of second response?

Answer 4

• inversion in the development section (repeats a
  movement but changes the direction of her body)
• she steps upstage with arms in an open fifth, leg behind
  then turns faces other way same step
• E.I suggests the she’s is trying to get herself noticed,
  whilst also searching for a way out
• inversion creates the effect of change and difference,
  relevant as the dancer is desperately searching, in not
  one but two ways