Dance Flashcards
What are the changes in your body when you dance?
- Your brain is more awake
- You are able to concentrate better
- Your heart is beating faster
- You are breathing deeper and faster
- Your muscles are warmer
What is posture?
how you hold your body
What is joint mobility?
means how much and how easily something can move and it important to move their joint
How to jump properly
- bend your knees paying attention to your posture
- Push strongly off the floor, stretching your legs and feet in the air
How to land properly
- toes still pointed and touching down
- ball of foot touching down
- heel (whole foot) touching down
Dance terminology: Space
- what is all around you
- any area in the room and around your body
- dancers use space in different ways
Dance terminology: direction
the line along which you travel
Dance terminology: pathways
the combination of directions you use in a sequence of movement or dance
-a pathway may make a shape like a circle
Dance terminology: levels
the distance from the ground of the shapes in space that dancers make
-we call these levels low, middle or high
Dance terminology: Shape
the outline of, or space taken up by an object or person
-when we dance, we make shapes with our bodies in space
Dance terminology: Dimension
length, breadth or depth of something
Dance terminology: Duration
the time something takes
Dance terminology: Tempo
the speed at which you move
Dance terminology: Rhythm
a group of beats creating a patter in time
Dance terminology: Phrase
a chain of movements grouped together
Dance terminology: Dance conventions
habits that dancers regularly follow to help to make a dance class run smoothly and allow them to dance at their best
Dance terminology: Warm-up
- slow repetitive movements used by dancers,
- gradually becoming faster in order to increase body temperature and prepare the body for dance
What type of exercises to do for warm-ups
- Should rolls
- Head tilts
- Swings
What exercises to do for Floor work
- flexing and stretching your feet and
- rounding and lengthening your spine
How to do transfer of weight
First you move your one foot to one side and put all the weight on the one foot . Then slide to the other foot
How to do Small jumps from two feet to two feet
Start with your feet together, with you hands on your waist
- Bend your knees and do three bounces, keeping your heels firmly fixed to the floor
- use the third bounce to push off the floor into a jump and land (repeat this)
How would you do a travelling jump
1-Start with your feet together and your hands on your waist
2-Point your right foot in front of your body
3-Step onto your right foot, bending your knees as you do
4-Jump straight up off your right leg and lift your left leg up so that your foot is touching your knee
5-Land safely on a bent leg
6-Run two steps forward (left foot, then right foot)
7-Step onto the left to repeat the hop and two runs
What strengthening exercises can be done for the abdomen
- simple abdominal curl
- cobra
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