Types of Dance
Choreographic Forms
Stimulus
Tools and Presentation
100
Pure, Lyrical, Abstract, Narrative, Comedic
What are the 5 types of dance used in choreographing?
100
A movement or short movement phrase that forms the basis of the structure of a dance
What is a Motif?
100
Mean 1 and meaning more than 1
What is Stimulus and Stimuli
100
Unison, Cannon and Retrograde
What the choreographic tools?
200
Very often the movements are mimetic in nature (they are based on realistic movements) and exaggerated to make them peculiar
What is Comic Dance?
200
In two parts, often denoted as AB.
What is Binary Form?
200
Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Ideational & Tactitle
What are the common types of stimulus?
200
To use these movements extracting the essence or main characteristics and adding other features in action or dynamics.
What is a Symbolic Presentation?
300
Pure dance deals only with movement itself, there is no meaning to interpret. Abstract dance is when the choreographer has taken out (abstracted) thoughts about something and put them into movement terms.
What is the difference between Pure and Abstract dance?
300
This provides the choreographer with a verse and chorus framework which gives room for variation in the verses and development in the choruses
What is Rondo?
300
Dictates mood, style, length, phrasing and overall form. A choreographer has little restriction in the ways these can be used.
What is an Auditory Stimulus?
300
To depict these human movements exactly as they are in real life
What is a Representational Presentation?
400
Has a story to tell, and does so be a series of episodes arranged in logical sequence (many ballets are often like this). Because both types are concerned with people and their emotions, characters are involved. In order to make movements dramatic, the effort put into them are important.
What is Narrative Dance/Dance Drama?
400
A conventional and satisfying form because going back to the beginning ‘rounds it off’.
What is Ternary Form/in 3 parts/ABA?
400
Produces a kinesthetic response
What is a Tactile Stimulus?
500
This suggests the quality of the dance. The dictionary says it is ‘…having a relatively light, pure, melodic quality’
What is Lyrical Dance?
500
Often called a sequential form – the initial statement is followed by a number of developments. The choreographer has a freedom but must pay attention to the connection throughout –even if the movement phrase is not repeated, something of its nature should linger on
What is Theme and Variation?
500
Ideational Stimulus
What is conveying an idea or unfolding a story or an emotion?
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