Dance Techniques

Select the correct technique: A short phrase, made up of basic dance actions, which expresses the style or the theme of the dance.

• Transition

• Motif

• Dynamic

• Routine

A choreographic device or structure where new movements are added to existing movements in a successive manner, for example, A, AB, ABC, ABCD.

• Levels

• Repetition

• Reversal

• Accumulation

A choreographic form in which a dance or movement sequence is performed in a backward order (like a rewound video).

• Contrast

• Retrograde

• Reversal

• Dynamic

A movement or series of movements that are noticeably different from anything seen so far in the dance.

• Contrast

• Dynamics

• Levels

• Mirror

What is this an example of?

• Retrograde

• Contrast

• Levels

• Motif

The way in which you perform a movement. E.g. sharp, smooth.

• Dynamics

• Transition

• Motif

• Pace

The performance of movements of a motif or sequence in the opposite order (but not in a backwards direction).

• Contrast

• Retrograde

• Transition

• Reversal

In a group dance, performing exactly the same movements at exactly the same time. In a solo, copying movements but in the opposite way, as though in a reflection.

• Motif

• Repetition

• Copying

• Mirroring

Using certain muscles to convey an emotional state.

• Gesture

• Facial expression

• Spatial awareness

• Dynamics

When a dancer duplicates a movement or number of movements.

• Control

• Accumulation

• Repetition

• Retrograde