Jazz Flashcards
(30 cards)
What is alignment
Alignment refers to lining up body parts so they’re all stacked nicely on top of each other
What is placement
Placement is where the weight of your body is placed and how you stand
What is Posture
Posture is the position in shape you stand in
What is the correct order thoracic vertebrae coccyx sacrum lumbar vertebrae cervical vertebrae
Cervical vertebrae thoracic vertebrae lumbar vertebrae sacrum coccyx
What is the tripod of the foot
Metatarsal arch to heel to longitudinal arch
What is lordosis
Banana back
What is kyphosis
Humpback
What is Scoliosis
S-curve back
Why do people dance
Social ritual fun health artistic
Define dance
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What is the African dance called
adzohu
where does adzohu originate
ghana
what is adzohu
Fierce gestures of spirit throwing and bottle like movements prepared for war performed as a social cultural event
What are the elements of dance
Space shape time and energy
What is space
Space is size level focus directions pathway relationships and direction it’s the way you use the area around you to dance
What is Shape
All objects make shapes in space they can be angular twisted straight is a metrical symmetrical or curved
What is time
How fast or slow movement is your speed and rhythm
What is energy
Energy is very in degrees of movement is for Sweet quality and still has that I’ll have it impact on energy
What are the types of bones
Long short flight irregular and sesamoid
What are long bones
Sheep like tubes longer than they are wide for example arms and legs
What are short bones
Square in shape as wide as they are long that it upper parts of hands and feet
What are flat bones
send sometimes slightly curved found an upper part of the pelvis ribs sternum and skull
What are irregular bones
Shaped for a certain purpose including to protect organs
What are sesamoid bones
Short or irregular embedded in a tendon to protect it
