Structure/Form
Choreographic devices
Manipulation and structuring of dance ideas
Constituent features of dance
100
Binary
What is dance with an A B structure where A contrasts with B
100
Repetition
What is the repeated use of a motif or phrase?
100
Motif
What is a single movement or phrase embodying the style and content of a dance?
100
RADS
What is relationships, actions, dynamics, spatial awareness?
200
Ternary
What is a dance with an ABA structure where A contrasts with B and then rounds off with A to bring closure?
200
Variation
What is the development of a motif or phrase in different ways?
200
Unison
What is performing movements or parts of a dance at the same time?
200
Physical setting
What are (2 of) performance environment, set, costume, lighting?
300
Rondo
What is a dance with an ABACAD, and so on, structure where the dance has a repeating verse chorus framework?
300
Contrast
What is new material noticeably different than anything so far seen in a dance?
300
Canon
What is creating a sequential effect by one part of dance being followed by another in time?
300
Aural setting
What is the audible aspect of dance including (3 of) music, words, found sound, silence, natural sound
400
Theme and Variation
What is dance where the structure is freer and asymmetric, which builds and changes from an initial start point and ends differently from how it starts?
400
Climax
What is the highhestpoint at which a dance arrives after several highlights?
400
Retrograde
What is reversing the order of a phrase or sequence of dance?
400
Dancer
What are varied by number, physique, role, gender
500
Narrative
What is an episodic sequentially arranged ABCDEFG dance that builds around central themes develop an idea to a conclusion?
500
Transition
What is the name given to links between movements, phrases and sections of dance?
500
Motif development
What is varying the size, level, tempo, facing or dynamics of a short movement phrase?
500
Actions
What are (5 of) travelling, elevation, turning, gesture (isolation), stillness, falling?
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