Structure in Dance

What is a dance/composition that has two parts?

• Ternary

• Rhondo

• Binary

• Episodic

A dance/composition in three parts is

• Binary

• Ternary

• Narrative

• Rhondo

A music/dance with alternating and repeating sections (verse and chorus)

• Ternary

• Episodic

• Narrative

• Rhondo

A dance that tells a story

• Episodic

• Narrative

• Choreographic intent

• Theme

A choreography with several different sections linked by a theme

• Narrative

• Rhondo

• Episodic

• Ternary

What is unity in a dance?

• The dancers work together

• Dancers are in unison

• Sense of wholeness/harmony

• Dancers all know the timing

Logical Sequence is...

• The choreography fits the music

• The flow of the different sections

• How the choreography is taught

• When the music matches the dance

Transitions are...

• How the dance starts and ends

• Finishing the dance how it started

• How you think sections and phrases together

• How you choreograph the dance