Elements of Dance
This is the medium used to convey ideas, express emotions, and tell stories in dance.
What is Body?
This satin, boxed shoe allows the FEMALE dancer to go up on the tips of her toes.
What is a Pointe Shoe?
Ballet classes and performances always end with this.
What is a reverence?
The reason modern dancers do not wear shoes.
What is to feel the earth?
One of these clothing items is free-flowing and reaches below the dancer's knees, and the other is short and wired so that its layers are held out perpendicular to the body.
What is a romantic tutu and a classical tutu?
This element of dance refers not only to steps and sequences, but also to pauses and moments of relative stillness.
What is Action?
A specific style of dance requires this metal object to be attached to bottom of dancers' shoes.
What are taps?
The purpose of these clothing items allow the female ballet dancer to appear more delicate and ethereal.
What are tutu and pointe shoes?
Who is Isadora Duncan?
The reason that jazz dance does not have one specific definition.
What is an approach rather than a style of movement?
This element of dance can be used to evaluate dancers with other dancers as well as solo performances.
What is Space?
A core movement adopted by the pioneers of modern dance that demonstrates a controlled release of tension of the entire body or any of its parts.
What is collapse?
This is the person who rehearses the dancers during daily class and often rehearses the dancers for specific ballets.
What is Ballet Master/Mistress?
Dancers wanted movements that would convey the emotions and happenings of everyday life.
What is the intention behind the creation of modern dance?
One of these shoes is a soft leather or canvas shoe that hugs the foot like a glove, whereas the other type of shoe is a satin boxed shoe that allows the female ballet dancer to rise to the tips of her toes.
What is the difference between a ballet shoe and a pointe shoe?
This element of dance utilizes rhythmic patterns, which may be metered (predictable and structured) or free rhythm.
What is Time?
This describes movements that are low, medium, or high.
What is Level?
The name of the school that trains dancers for the New York City Ballet.
What is the School of American Ballet?
The use of this concept distinguishes modern dance from ballet.
What is gravity?
The Royal Courts of Europe.
Where did ballet develop?
This element of dance refers to both high-speed, intense movements, a lack thereof, and every speed on movement in between.
What is Energy?
A dance for two, traditionally a man and a woman.
What is a pas de deux?
This is the age at which young dancers typically begin their professional careers.
What is 17-18?
The Graham technique revolutionized modern dance by this movement that demonstrates a tightening of the stomach muscles to convey powerful emotion and angst.
What is contraction?
The number of years it takes to become a dancer.
What is 8-10?