Dance Glossary

A structure in which one soloist or group performs while a second soloist or group’s performance responds to or answers the first.

• Balance

• Body

• Call-and-Response

• Art Form

Qualities or experience derived from or based upon the senses and how they are affected or stimulated.

• Abstract Concept

• Aesthetic

• Aesthetic Judgments

• Aesthetic Principles

The shape and structure of fine arts activity, the origin of the components comprising a work of art in to a distinct order; a product or process of dance, music, theatre, or visual art.

• Aesthetic

• Aesthetic Judgments

• Aesthetic Principles

• Art Form

Arrangement (symmetrical or asymmetrical) of proportionate parts so that equilibrium exists; manipulation of floor pattern, movements and dancers in relation to each other.

• Audience Etiquette

• Awareness of Space

• Balance

• Body

The ability to execute each step in a dance clearly and completely.

• Canon

• Choreographic Forms

• Choreography

• Clarity

Introduction of a theme or pattern different than the original that differs in a way that can serve to distinguish or intensify meaning.

• Collage

• Contrast

• Concentration

• Creative Process

A written review analyzing all aspects of dance performance.

• Creative Process

• Culture

• Critique

• Dance

Any movement used to communicate through the language of dance.

• Dance Skills

• Dance Movement

• Dance Conventions

• Dance

Sequential arrangement to achieve a key statement or intensity; the portion of the composition given primary emphasis or representing culmination; the most intense or highest point in the development or resolution of choreography.

• Climax

• Clarity

• Collage

• Contrast

A choreographic form that reflects the musical form of the same name in which individuals and groups perform the same movement phrase beginning at different times.

• Clarity

• Choreography

• Choreographic Forms

• Canon