Technical and Expressive Skills

What technical skill does this dancer improve in the image?

• Genre-specific technique

• Control

• Balance

• Alignment

The energy the dancer uses to connect with and draw in the audience.

• Focus

• Projection

• Facial Expressions

• Musicality

Being able to perform movements that use more than one body part at the same time, refers to which technical skill?

• Strength

• Control

• Timing

• Coordination

Use of the eyes to enhance performance or interpretative qualities

• Focus

• Projection

• Facial Expression

• Body Expression

Which of the following are not a technical skill?

• Posture

• Energy

• Alignment

• Flexibility

Straight lines of the body, refers to which technical skill in dance?

• Balance

• Posture

• Flexibility

• Alignment

A dancer stumbled and tripped during a performance, which technical skill should they continue to work on

• Control

• Timing

• Balance

• Strength

Match the following expressive skills:

• Using body & face to show emotion/mood

• Confidence

• Performing with assurance and presence.

• Projection

• Sending energy outward to the audience

• Body & Facial Expression

• Directed gaze and mental presence

• Musicality

• Responding to rhythm & dynamics in music

• Focus

Which of the following would help improve musicality?

• 
  Timing highlights with musical accents

• 
  Interpret the musical rhythms and dynamics

• Count the music

• Express the mood of the aural setting

• Perform in time with the music

What does technical skill does this dancer improve in the image?

• Control

• Flexibility

• Alignment

• Balance