Choreographic Devices 1
Make the movement or formations bigger.
Expansion.
Which element of LOD means no movement.
Stillness.
Add small details or emphasis to a movement or phrase.
Embellishment.
Statue or pose.
Shape.
Which choreographic device is used when dancers face the audience and then the back of the stage?
Staging or Concept Contrast.
Make the movements or formations smaller.
Diminution.
Stretch or expand.
Extend.
One dancer or group repeats a movement several counts later.
Canon.
Bend or contract.
Flex.
Which choreographic device matches the LOD action extend?
Expansion.
Transfer the movement to a different or opposite body part.
Transposition.
Turn 360 degrees.
Rotate.
Vary the speed or change the timing of a movement or phrase.
Rhythm.
Fixed points turning in opposite directions.
Twist.
Which choreographic device is also the LOD action flex?
Diminution.
Change the space, time, or force of a movement.
Concept Contrast.
Aerial action or jump.
Spring.
Dancers change their relationship to space, the audience, and each other.
Staging.
Suspend and collapse.
Swing.
Which choreographic device is connected to the Element of Dance, time?
Rhythm.
Perform a pattern and then rewind.
Retrograde.
Move or gesture in one place.
Nonlocomotor.
Perform a movement or phrase several times, often with different Elements of Dance.
Body, Energy, Space, Time
Repetition.
Travel from one spot to another in space.
Locomotor.
What is often changed with the choreographic device repetition?
Elements of Dance-Body, Energy, Space, or Time.