A-D
A set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty.
What is aesthetic?
A brief sequence of related movements that have a sense of continuity and artistic or rhythmic completion.
What is a dance phrase?
The dynamic quality, force, weight, and flow of movement.
What is energy?
Codified or personal movement characteristics that define a movement style.
What is movement vocabulary?
The patterning or structuring of time through movement or sound.
What is rhythm?
The process of adjusting the skeletal and muscular system to gravity to support effective functionality.
What is alignment?
The tools, skills, and principles needed to produce a particular style of movement. For example, the use of dynamic alignment, breath support, core support, rotation, initiation and sequencing, weight shift.
What is dance technique?
Spatial orientation that is not focused toward one area of a studio or stage.
What is general space?
Movement that remains in place; movement that does not travel from one location to another or in a pathway through space
What is nonlocomotor/axial?
A dance that is performed in a site other than a standard Western-style theater (for example, classroom, site-specific venue, natural environment).
What is a site-specific dance?
An artist’s verbal or written introduction of their work from their own perspective to convey the deeper meaning or purpose.
What is an artistic statement?
A complete dance that has a beginning, middle (development), and end.
What is a dance work?
A category of dance characterized by similarities in form, style, purpose, or subject matter (for example, ballet, hip hop, modern, ballroom, cultural practices).
What is genre?
Performance values and expected behaviors when rehearsing or performing (for example, no talking while the dance is in progress, no chewing gum, neat and appropriate appearance, dancers do not call out to audience members who are friends).
What is performance etiquette?
A thing or event that inspires action, feeling, or thought.
What is a stimulus/stimuli?
Manipulation of dance movement, sequences, or phrases (repetition, inversion, accumulation, cannon, retrograde, call and response, expansion, diminution, and transposition).
What are choreographic devices?
The qualities or characteristics of movement that lend expression and style; also called “efforts” or “energy” (for example, sustained, quick, light, strong).
What are dynamics?
Pertaining to sensations and understanding of bodily movement.
What is kinesthetic awareness?
The area of space directly surrounding one’s body extending as far as a person can reach; also called the kinesphere.
What is personal space?
Dance that has specific movement characteristics, qualities, or principles that give it distinctive identity
What is a style?
The total experience of dance learning that includes the doing and knowing about dance: dance skills and techniques, dance making, knowledge and understanding of dance vocabulary, dance history, dance from different cultures, dance genres, repertory, performers and choreographers, dance companies, and dance notation and preservation.
What is dance literacy?
The key components of movement; movement of the body using space, time, and energy; often referred to as the elements of movement
What are the elements of dance?
Movement that travels from one location to another or in a pathway through space
What is locomotor movement?
In music, several rhythms layered on top of one another and played simultaneously; in dance, embodying several rhythms simultaneously in different body parts.
What is polyrhythmic?
Dance that has specific movement characteristics, qualities, or principles that give it distinctive identity
What is a theme?