Modern dance vocabulary terms

Curving of the torso into a concave shape.

To sway or rock, responding to the pull of gravity.

Movement quality that creates the illusion of effortless movement or defying gravity

Movement that is short and/or in sporadic burst.

Movement that gives into gravity, folds down or gives into the floor.

Pertaining to a sense of the beautiful, the look of a dance is pleasing to the eye.

Occurs front to back, side to side, in an upper or lower arc, in a circular path, and as an initiative to a fall, spiral or turn.

The energy of movement expressed in varying intensity, accent, and quality.

Stationary or turning body position supported by one leg with the free leg bent at a 90 degree angle at the knee, leg turned out at the hip

The cutting edge of an artistic movement.