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Dance Flashcards

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What are the changes in your body when you dance?

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  • 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
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What is posture?

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how you hold your body

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What is joint mobility?

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means how much and how easily something can move and it important to move their joint

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How to jump properly

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  • bend your knees paying attention to your posture

- Push strongly off the floor, stretching your legs and feet in the air

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How to land properly

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  • toes still pointed and touching down
  • ball of foot touching down
  • heel (whole foot) touching down
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Dance terminology: Space

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  • what is all around you
  • any area in the room and around your body
  • dancers use space in different ways
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Dance terminology: direction

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the line along which you travel

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Dance terminology: pathways

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the combination of directions you use in a sequence of movement or dance
-a pathway may make a shape like a circle

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Dance terminology: levels

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the distance from the ground of the shapes in space that dancers make
-we call these levels low, middle or high

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Dance terminology: Shape

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the outline of, or space taken up by an object or person

-when we dance, we make shapes with our bodies in space

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Dance terminology: Dimension

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length, breadth or depth of something

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Dance terminology: Duration

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the time something takes

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Dance terminology: Tempo

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the speed at which you move

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Dance terminology: Rhythm

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a group of beats creating a patter in time

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Dance terminology: Phrase

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a chain of movements grouped together

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Dance terminology: Dance conventions

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habits that dancers regularly follow to help to make a dance class run smoothly and allow them to dance at their best

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Dance terminology: Warm-up

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  • slow repetitive movements used by dancers,

- gradually becoming faster in order to increase body temperature and prepare the body for dance

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What type of exercises to do for warm-ups

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  • Should rolls
  • Head tilts
  • Swings
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What exercises to do for Floor work

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  • flexing and stretching your feet and

- rounding and lengthening your spine

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How to do transfer of weight

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First you move your one foot to one side and put all the weight on the one foot . Then slide to the other foot

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How to do Small jumps from two feet to two feet

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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)
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How would you do a travelling jump

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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

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What strengthening exercises can be done for the abdomen

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  • simple abdominal curl

- cobra

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What cooling down stretches can you do?

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  • Inner thigh stretch
  • Seated arm stretch
  • Simple neck stretch
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What changes in your body whilst doing the cooling down exercises?

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  • breathing becomes slower and more relaxed
  • heart rate slows down
  • body temperature cools
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What are the ingredients of a good cool-down?

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  • slow repetitive movement
  • deep breathing
  • stretches
  • rises, side bends and spinal rolls
39
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What are the characteristics of Hip Hop dance

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  • baggy trousers and caps
  • jewelry,
  • stylised funky movements
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What are the characteristics of Spanish dance

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  • flamenco music is used- guitar and castanets

- movements include clapping, stamping, wrist and arm circles and turns

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What are the characteristics of Bhangra

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-every small movement, even of just a finger, changes the meaning of the dance

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What are the characteristics of Gumboot dance

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  • dancers use boots
  • make complex rhythms
  • energetic
  • often danced in unison
  • uses line formations
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What are the characteristics of Pantsula dance

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  • a lot of fast footwork,
  • energetic
  • theatrical
  • dancers often wear sneakers

G7 - Creative Arts exams (2 decks)

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