Dance Terminology

What are the Elements of Dance? (B.D.S.T.)

• Body, Dance, Space, Tests

• Better, Dynamics, Space, Tabs

• Body, Dynamics, Space, Time

• Battements, Dancing, Stages, Time

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Body includes:

• Bases

• Shapes

• Parts

• Injuries

• Awareness

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Time includes:

• Time Signature

• Tempo

• Rehearsal Time

• Accents

• Phrasing

The skull, ribs, sternum and spine make up what skeleton?

What is this choreographic device?

New movements are added to existing movements in a successive manner (1, 1+2, 1+2+3 etc.)

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Energy includes:

• Vibratory

• Sustained

• Collapse

• Swinging

• Suspend

True or False.

Inversion is where dancers perform movement as if they are looking in a mirror.

• True

• False

What choreographic structure is seen in two distinct parts, an 'A' theme and a 'B' theme (AB)?

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Space includes:

• Performance/Stage Space

• Personal Space

• Formations

• Floor Plans

What is this choreographic device?

Two or more dancers performing the same movement at the same time.