PE Topic 8 Flashcards
What are the 5 elements of dance?
Body
Action
Space
Time
Energy
This is any human movement involved in the act of dancing.
Action
What are the 2 types of action?
Locomotor and Non-Locomotor/Axial Movement
What are the subtopics of space?
Level: Is the movement on the floor, or reaching upward? Are they performed high, medium, or low?
A rhythmic pattern is less predictable than metered time. Dancers may perform movement without using music, relying on cues from one another.
Free Rhythm
A repeated rhythmic pattern often used in music (like 2/4 time or 4/4 time). If dances are done to music, the movement can respond to the beat of the music or can move against it.
Metered Time
The speed of the rhythmic pattern is called its tempo.
Is the movement tight, flowing, loose, sharp, swinging, swaying, suspended, collapsed, or smooth?
Quality
Is the movement sharp and sudden, or smooth and sustained?
Attack
Does the movement show heaviness, as if giving into gravity, or is it light with a tendency upward?
Weight
Does the movement seem restricted or bound, with a lot of muscle tension, or is it relaxed, free, and easy?
Flow
Does the movement go forward, backward, sideways, right, left, or on a diagonal?
Direction:
Is the movement done on the spot (personal space), or does it move through space (general space, downstage, upstage)?
Place
How are the dancers positioned in space in relationship to one another? Are they close together or far apart? Are they in front of, beside, behind, over, under, alone, or connected to one another?
Relationships
Does the movement take up a small, narrow space, or a big, wide space?
Size
Is the path through space made by the dancers curved, straight, or zigzagged? Or is it random?
Pathway
