Choreographic Devices Quiz

When the same movements overlap in time.

• Fragmentation
• Canon
• Repetition
• Action

Important moments of a dance.

• Highlights
• Climax
• Motif
• Phrase

Performing the same action or phrase again.

• Relationships
• Retrograde
• Repetition
• Rehearsal

Two or more dancers performing the same movement at the same time.

• Unison
• Unity
• Discipline
• Rehearsal

To perform the movement completely backwards, as if being rewound on video.

• Reverse
• Retrograde
• Rewind
• Repeat

This is when movement is removed from the motif entirely, effectively shortening it.

• Ornamentation
• Minimalise
• Repeat
• Reduction

Adding in extra ‘frilly bits’ to the motif. This could be done by adding flourishes within the body to add extra visual interest to a movement.

• Mobility
• Ornamentation
• Phrase
• Addition

Take two or more motifs and combine them with each other.

• Splicing
• Narration
• Binary
• Fragmentation

Repeat exactly the same movement but on the other side of the body.

• Reiterate
• Restate
• Accumulation
• Narrative

To reverse the order of the movements within the motif.

• Phrase
• Amplification
• Ornamentation
• Reverse