M2: Dance Flashcards
Is the art form in which human movement becomes the medium for sensing, understanding, communicating ideas, feelings, and experiences
Dance
are usually employed on contract or for particular performances/productions.
Professional dancers (dancer)
generally university trained and are typically employed for particular projects or, more rarely may work on contract as the resident choreographer for a specific dance company.
Choreographer
A _______is protected intellectual property. Dancers may undertake their own choreography.
choreographic work
dance schools rely on reputation and marketing.
Dance teacher and operators
s danced by an individual dancing alone, as opposed to couples dancing together but independently of others dancing at the same time, if any, and as opposed to groups of people dancing simultaneously in a coordinated manner.
solo
dances whose basic choreography involves coordinated dancing of two partners, as opposed to individuals dancing alone or individually in a non-coordinated manner, and as opposed to groups of people dancing simultaneously in a coordinated manner.
partnerr
danced by groups of people simultaneously, as opposed to individuals dancing alone or individually, and as opposed to couples dancing together but independently of others dancing at the same time
group
Elements of Dance
Body, Action, Balance, Posture, Gesture, Rhythm, Space, Centering, Gravity, Time, Breathing
mobile figure or shape, felt by the dancer, seen by others. The ___ is sometimes relatively still and sometimes changing as the dancer moves in place or travels through the dance area. Dancers may emphasize specific parts of their body in a dance phrase or their whole body.
body
Types of Body
Ectomorph, Mesomorph
Thin/delicate build
Usually tall and lanky
Flat Chest
Doesn’t easily gain weight
Slouchy shoulders, posture problems
Trouble gaining muscle, lightly muscled
Not a lot of fat on the body
The Ectomorph
Hard body
Well developed muscle
Mature appearance
Good posture
Thick skin
The Mesomorph
It is the key to balance and movement
It reveals your feelings but can also reveal feelings in you.
Posture (Alignment)
Involves using the body as an expressive instrument to communicate feelings and ideas in patterns of movement.
gesture
It is something that everybody has and some people are not aware or sensitive to it.
It is essential for a dancer.
Rhythm
This is fundamental to your ability to dance well. This is maintaining a sense of your own body center that holds you together as you move.
centering
It is a force you have to work with because it constantly inhibits movements.
gravity
It is an inner relationship between all the points of your body which you hold in your awareness.
balance
It can include dance steps, facial movements, lifts, carries, and catches.
Dancers may choose movement that has been done before, or they may add their own original movements to the existing dance movement vocabulary.
action
Dancers interact with ____ in myriad ways. They may stay in one place and move parts of their body or their whole body, or they may travel from one place to another.
space
Dancers may take sight cues from each other to start the next phrase or use a shared sense of sensed time to end a dance. They may even take cues from an event such as a train whistle during an outdoor dance performance.
time
It refers to the force of an action and can mean both the physical and psychic energy that drives and characterizes movement.
energy
Not only does it bring oxygen to the body but it also gives your movement fluency and harmony.
breathing
