Choreographic Devices and Production Elements of Dance

What are production elements?

• When everyone does their makeup for the concert

• When a dance performance involves technical elements to improve the visual appeal.

• Shape, Tempo, Spatial relationship

Why does a performance need production elements?

• Production elements are cool and make the dance better

• They look nice

• Production elements help enhance the viewers experience and allows the dance to pop

Which of these is a production element?

• choreography

• costume

• audience

• performer

What are the production elements in dance?

• costumes, props, lighting, sound, multimedia elements

• shoes, chairs, jewelry, makeup

• space, time, relationship, force/dynamics

• canon, unison, repetition

What are some examples of choreographic devices?

• canon, unison, repetition, contrast.

• slide, crawl, stomp, walk, skip

• 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

What are choreographic devices?

• Your groups movements

• The steps

• Ways in which you can choose to design movements in a dance.

What are some styles of canon?

• Non-overlapping, overlapping, simultaneous, accumulation, cumulative

• repetition, unison, contrast, call and response, canon

• jazz, tap, hip hop, cultural, ballet, robotic

What is a non-overlapping canon?

• Second dancer starts halfway through the movement of the first dancer.

• Start at different times and finish at the same time.

• One dancer finishes the movement before the next dancer begins.

What is an overlapping canon?

• First dancer begins the movement and the second dancer begins before the first is complete.

• Mexican wave

• Doing the dance move at the same time as your group members.

What is a cumulative canon?

• Dancers enjoy what they are doing.

• Dancers start one after another but all finish together.

• When you are performing outside.