Space
Where the body is facing or moving
What is direction?
A strong, hard hitting, quick movement
What is percussive?
A dance performed by two dancers.
Duet
Length of sound, movement or performance
What is duration?
A movement that is executed at different times by different dancers.
What is canon?
The height of the movement
What is levels?
Shaking slightly or quickly
What is vibratory?
How dancers are organised in relation to one another
What is groupings?
Emphasis or attack on a particular note
A short movement phrase that communicates the key meaning or theme of the dance.
What is motif?
Where the dancers are standing
What is formations?
The natural fall to the floor or of a body part.
What is collapsing?
How dancers respond to and influence one another and objects through their movements.
What is interactions?
The speed of a passage of music or phrase of movement
What is tempo?
Performing different movements with juxtaposition of contrary elements
What is contrast?
The size of the movement
What is dimension?
Energy released with a pendiular quality
What is swinging?
The connections and arrangements between objects or elements in a physical space
What is spatial relationships?
Rests in the music or movement
What is stillness?
Performing a movement sequence in the reverse order
What is retrograde?
How the dancers travel
What is pathways?
When the force of a movement is held
What is suspended?
The basic rhythmic unit of measure
What is beat?
Performing the movement with different body parts.
What is instrumentation?