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Dance Vocab Final Flashcards

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An Idea or concept conveyed through movement and removed from its original context.

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Abstraction

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A strong movement gesture

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Accent

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Standards applied in making judgements about the artistic merit of work.

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Aesthetic criteria

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The relationship of the skeleton to the line of gravity and base support

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Alignment

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Movement anchored to one spot by a body park. Only the available space in any direction is used while the initial body contact is being maintained. Movement is organized around the axis of the body and is not designed travel from one location to another. Examples include stretching, bending, turning in place, gesturing.

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Axial movement

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A state of equilibrium referring to the balance of weight or the spatial arrangement of bodies. Designs may be balanced on both sides of center (symmetrical) or balanced off center (asymmetrical)

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Balance

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A form of Western classical dance that originated in the Renaissance courts of Europe. The dance form was formally codified by the time of King Louis XIV (mid -1600s), who was an accomplished dancer, responsible for extensive notation as well as support for dance.

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Ballet

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Awareness of one’s body, and its possibilities, capabilities, and limitations

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Body knowledge

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A passage, movement sequence, or piece of music in which the parts are done in succession, overlapping one another.

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Canon

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Creation and composition of dances by arranging or inventing steps, movements, and pattern of movements

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Choreography

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To set side by side to emphasize differences; in dance, two movements that differ in energy, space (size, direction, level), design (symmetrical/asymmetrical, open/closed), timing (fast/slow, even/uneven), themes or patterns

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Contrast

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A weight that balances another weight. In dance it usually refers to one or more dancers combining their weight in stillness or in motion to achieve a movement or design that is interdependent. Any limit moving in one direction must be given a counter weight.

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Counterbalance

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The organization or plan for patterning movements; the overall structural organization of dance or music composition (e.g. call and response, theme and variation, canon)

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Dance forms

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A partial dance idea composed of a series of connecting movements and similar to a sentence in the written form.

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Dance phrase

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Order in which a series of movements and shape occurs

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Dance Sequence

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Manner in which a dance is constructed or organized; a supporting framework or the essential parts of a dance.

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Dance Structures

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A short work of dance that investigates a specific idea or concept and shows a selection of movement ideas.

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Dance study

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Energy of movement expressed in varying intensities, accent, and quality

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Dynamics

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in general, a gathering of forces to increase the projection of intent. In particular, it refers to a dancer’s line of sight.

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Focus

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Dance associated with a nationalistic purpose, usually performed todays as a surviving portion of a traditional celebration and done for social gatherings or as a recreation.

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Folk/traditional

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An element of dance characterized by the release of potential energy released into kinetic energy. It utilized body weight, reveals the effects of gravity on the body, is projected into space, and affects emotional and spatial relationships and intentions. The most recognized qualities of movement are sustained, percussive, suspended, swinging, and collapsing.

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Force/energy

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A particular kind or style of dance, such as ballet, jazz, modern folk, tap.

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Genre

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Movement of a body part or combination of parts, with emphasis on its expressive characteristics, including movements of the body not supporting weight.

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Gesture

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Movement created Spontaneously, which ranges from freeform to highly structured environments, always including an element of chance.

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Improvisations

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Movement executed with one body part or small part of the body. Examples are rolling the head, shrugging the shoulders, and rotating the pelvis.

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Isolated movement

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Dance marked by movement isolations and complex, propulsive polyrhythms; an outgrowth of African-American ragtime, jazz, spiritual, blues, work songs, and so forth and is considered an American style of dance

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Jazz Dance

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Physics principles that govern motion, flow, and weight in time and space, including, for example, the law of gravity, balance, and centrifugal force

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Kinesthetics

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A form of physical movement progressing from one place to another. Basic locomotion movements include walking, running, galloping, jumping, hopping, skipping, sliding, leaping.

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Locomotion

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A type of dance that began as a rebellion against steps and positions and values expressive and original or authentic movement. It is a twentieth century idiom.

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Modern Dance

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A distinctive and recurring gesture used to provide a theme or unifying idea.

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Motif

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A repeated sequence of movement ideas, a rhythmic movement sequence, a spatial design on the floor or in the are, or a specific relationship or grouping of people.

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Movement Pattern

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An idea or task that serves as a point of departure for dance exploration and composing, usually with specific criteria.

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Movement Problem

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A grouping and articulation of a group of notes that form a logical unit

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Musical Phrasing

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A dancer’s attention and responsiveness to musical elements.

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Musicality

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Skills requiring cooperation, coordination, and dependence, including limitation, lead and follow, echo, mirroring ad call and response.

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Partner/Group skills

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A line along which a person or part of the person, such as an arm or head, moves (e.g., her arm took a circular path, or he traveled along a zigzag pathway).

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Pathways

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The presence of unity, continuity (transitions), and variety (contrasts and repetition) in choreography.

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Principles of Composition

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A confident presentation of one’s body and energy to communicate movement clearly to an audience.

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Projection

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Duplication of a movement or movements phrases with dance choreography.

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Repetition

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To reverse the order of a sequence of dance choreography.

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Retrograde

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A structure of movement patterns in time; a movement with a regular succession of string and weak elements; the pattern produced by emphasis and duration of notes in music.

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Rhythm

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A position of the body in space, such as curved, straight, angular, twisted, symmetrical, asymmetrical, etc.

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Shape

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Technical abilities, specific movements, or combinations

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Skills

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Dance performed in a societal setting; traditionally referred to as a ballroom dance, but including all popular social dances performed with or without partners

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Social Dance

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An element of dance that refers to the immediate spherical space surrounding the body in all directions. Use of Space includes shape, direction, path, range, and level of movement. Space is also the location of a performed dance.

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Space

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A type of dance that concentrates on footwork and rhythm. This type of dance grew out of American popular dancing, with significant roots in African-American, Irish, and English clogging traditions

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Tap dance

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Physical skills of a dancer that enable him or her to execute the steps and movements required in different dances. Different styles or genres of dance often have specific techniques.

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Technique

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The speed of music or dance

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Tempo

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An element of dance involving rhythm, phrasing, tempo, accent, and duration. Time can be metered, as in music, or based on body rhythms, such as breath, emotions, and heartbeat.

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TIme

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When a movement, phrase, or section of a dance progresses into the next

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Transition

51
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Dance movement that takes place at the same time n a group

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Unison

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A quantity or range of different things. To maintain audience interest, the choreographer must provide variety within the development of the dance. Contrasts in the use of space, force, and spatial designs as well as some repetition of movements and motifs provide variety.

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Variety

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A piece of Choreography or a dance

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Work.

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