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Dance Definitions Flashcards

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Artistry

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The degree of expressive execution of movement vocabulary by the dancer when performing a dance work.

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Arranging

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The process of manipulation of movement vocabulary and choreographic devices to express the intention of the dance maker.

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Asymmetry

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Unbalanced proportion within the spatial design of either the body itself or the place met of groupings within the performance area judged by diving the space into even sections horizontally, vertically and diagonally.

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Body actions

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Gesture
Locomotion
Elevation
Falling
Turning
Stillness
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Canon

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A minor successive time difference.

This can be one movement put unto canon by two or more dancers or a phrase of movements put into canon

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Choreography

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The planning and arranging of dance sections to make a unified composition.
The process of improvising, selecting and refining of movements.

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Choreographic devices

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Application of the elements of movement, aspects of dance design, dance making methodology, spatial organisation and group structures within dance compositions.

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Specific ways of manipulating movement to generate movement material and form such as: augmentation, accumulation, abstraction, distortion, embellishment, inversion, insertion, repetition, retrograde, rearrangement.

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Composition

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The process of improvisation, selection and refining of movement into a dance that has a beginning, development and resolution.

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Dance design

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The expressive intention, form and movement vocabulary within the dance (all interrelated).

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Dance making

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Creating movement works through exploration of ideas, themes or observations and experiences of movement itself.
It is the practical translation of the initial intention, content, idea, motif, theme, story.

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Dance making process

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The making of dances through the use of improvisation, selection, arrangement, refinement and evaluation. (ISARE)

Movement creation; use of choreographic devices, rehearsal practices, pre performance practices and performance practices.

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Dimension

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Size of both the personal shape size and group size (height, width, depth)

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Direction

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The line of locomotor movement.
The direction of movement of the dancer’s total body or body parts upwards, downwards, sideways, forwards, backwards, diagonally and circular.

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Dynamic qualities

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The use of the movement qualities of suspending, sustaining, swinging, percussive, vibratory and collapsing. (SSSPVC)

The changes in energy force and effort flow needed to execute the desired movement or phrase.

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Elements of dance design

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Expressive intention, form, movement vocabulary (all interrelated).

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Elements of movement

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Time, space and energy (all interrelated)

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Evaluation

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The oral and written reflections on the processes of rehearsing and performing learnt dance works and of composing one’s own dance.

Analysis of the use of choreographic devices by the dance maker.

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Expressive intention

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The central concern that guides the formulation of the dance. The purpose, idea, emotion or theme of the dance.

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Form

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The structure of the dance by selecting, arranging and refining movement phrases into a unified composition.

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Formal structures

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The manipulation of elements of movement; the creation of movements phrases and linking of phrases into sections.

Binary (AB)
Ternary/sequential (ABA)
Rondo (ABACA)
Theme and variation (A A1 A2 A3)

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Group structures

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Two or more dancers interacting together through the use of the choreographic devices of unison, canon and contrast. Through groupings of dancers placed either symmetrically or asymmetrically.

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Improvisation (free)

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A spontaneous movement response without preplanning. The key elements are concentration and spontaneity. By it’s very nature, improvisation will not be unified.

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Structured improvisation

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To improvise spontaneously and imaginatively within a given framework.
Eg: using props, interpret dance in reaction to colours, listen to music beforehand and improvise movement.

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Influences

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Those factors which affect the choices made by the choreographer/dance maker- the economic, political, philosophical, religious, social and/or environmental background of the idea (expressive intention).

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Interpretation

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To aim to bring out the stated meanings, emotions, subtleties and nuances of gestures when learning and performing another choreographer’s dance works.

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Learnt works

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A dance work made by another person and transferred to the student through imitation and repetition in order to reproduce exactly that person’s choreography.

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Level

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An spect of height dimension which includes the variety of working heights from prone to as high as one can jump or even higher by taking into account a prop or stairs.

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Modes of dance making

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  1. Structured improvisation
  2. Own composition
  3. Learnt works
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Motif

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A brief movement or movement phrase with an obvious characteristic, often repeated at intervals during a dance. The motif can be explore through the use of manipulation by choreographic devices.

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Movement creation process

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The use of improvisation, selection, arranging, refining and evaluating (ISARE)

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Movement memory

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The acquiring of the ability to commit to memory movement phrases and sections in order to develop the power to retain and reproduce dances exactly as originally set by the choreographer.

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Movement qualities

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Variations do suspending, sustaining, swinging, percussive, vibratory and collapsing (SSSPVC) that leads to variations in force and flow.

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Movement vocabulary

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A range of movement skills.

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Organisation

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One of the necessary stages in making a dance.

The intellectual choice and ordering of the movement vocabulary and/or the form of the dance.

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Performance practices

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The processes used I the final preparation for the performance of a dance work.
Eg: a run through in the space.

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Phrase

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The linking of two or more single movements.

The linking of two or more measures of music.

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Physical skills

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Movements of the body in space practiced regularly in order to gain balance, correct alignment, flexibility, muscular strength, control, stamina, transference of weight and transitions between movements.

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Production aspects

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Lighting
Scenery
Props
Costumes
Performance space
Make-up
Mechanical and digital devices
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Quality of movement

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Refining of selected movement skills.

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Rehearsal practices

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This process is involved in the refining of the dance work after the initial creation of the movements, phrases and sections,

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Refining

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The dance makers process of editing of their dance work’s initial form and movement vocabulary in order to make a more succinct, polished dance statement.

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Safe dance practice

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Fundamental understanding of anatomical dats that leads to the safe use and care of the dancer’s body.

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Spatial design

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Relationship/interaction of dancers in a group.
The floor and air patterns created by the dancer/s in space.
The dimension, direction, focus and levels contained in a made dance.

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Spatial organisation

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The arrangement of the dancer/’s within the performance area.
This can include:
The use and manipulation of direction, level, dimension and focus.
Groups structures of symmetry and asymmetry.
Interaction in unison, contrast and canon form.

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Symmetry

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Balanced, even position of the body shape itself, or of the placement of groups within the performance space.

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Unified composition

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A dance which has a beginning, development and resolution of the initial intention, idea, motif, emotion, theme etc. The relationship between the three area can e complimentary or contrasting.

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Unison

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Dancers moving exactly alike.

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Warm-down (cool down)

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Essential light movements and gentle stretching, undertaken at the end of an of an activity session, which are designed to flush out toxins that gather during the heavier physical section of the dance class.

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Warm-up

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Initial light movements designed to prepare muscles, ligaments, tendons and joints for heavier physical activity. These are normally of 15-20 minutes in duration.

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Spatial orientation

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The awareness of where one is within the performance area.

The relationship of the dancer to other performers within the performance area.

Dance VCE Units 3 & 4 (10 decks)

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