Body
Movements that travel through space are called what?
What is locomotor
Can the same movement look different depending on the energy used? How?
What is yes.
What is kinesphere?
What is the personal, three-dimensional space surrounding the body.
What is a beat? (demonstration)
What is the consistent, underlying pulse of the music that dictates the timing of movement
Where is your sternum?
what is points to or describes location. What is middle of chest.
What are non-locomotor movements?
What are movements that stay in one place.
What are three movement qualities?
What is slow/flowy, quick/sharp, and sudden.
What is the plane that divides the body or its parts into upper and lower segments?
What is the transverse plane.
The length of a movement is called what?
What is duration.
What does saute mean?
What is the form the dancers body makes called?
What is shape.
What is force?
What is how much energy or power a movement uses.
What are the three levels? (demonstrate)
What is low, middle, and high.
What is rhythm? (demonstration)
What is a structure arrangement of movement, acting as the foundation for coordinating body actions with the beat.
How do you know your body is aligned?
What is your head on top of your spine, your shoulders over your hips, your knees under your hips, ankles under your knees.
What are isolations?
What is moving one part of the
body independently from the rest.
What are qualities and force used for?
What is creating character, story, or emotion.
What is the magnitude of movement called?
What is size.
What is double time and half time? (clap/count it)
What is double time which is performing steps twice as fast as the original tempo and half time which is a rhythmic feel where movements or steps occur at half the speed of the musical tempo.
What is the largest bone of the body?
What is the femur.
What are three pedestrian movements? (demonstrate)
What is walking, running, skipping
What do qualities do to movement?
What is changes the way the movement is received.
What is the sagittal plane?
What is a longitudinal plane that divides the body into left and right sides.
What is syncopation? (demonstration)
What is the practice of accenting unexpected, weak, or “off” beats rather than “1,2,3,4" strong beats.
What does battement mean?
What is to beat.