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WorksheetsChoreographic Devices and Production Elements of Dance
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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.
What is a simultaneous canon?
It is similar but different.
All dancers start at the same time but at different parts of the movement.
All dancers do everything exactly the same.
What is an accumulation canon?
Something I need to do in my dance assessment.
Domino effect
The dance builds each time a dancer finishes, the movement starts again and builds each time in people.
What is repitition?
A movement completed several times through the dance for emphasis or effect.
When you mimic what someone else does.
saying the same thing over and over again.
Doing the same dance move all dance.
What is contrast?
Means the opposite.
When something is different.
A deliberate difference between energy levels, speed, angles or height in dancers.
What is unison?
A style of dance performance.
When a group of dancers performs the same movement at the same time.
university.
What is a locomotor movement?
When the body moves from one point to another through movement.
When you go loco crazy.
Standing still and your body moves.
What is a non-locomotor movement?
When you are not loco crazy.
Moving from one point to another.
Any movement that does travel, but uses the space surrounding the upper body.
Examples of Non-locomotor movements:
jumping, skipping, walking, crawling.
bending, twisting, stretching, and swinging
yelling, screaming, laughing, talking.
Examples of locomotor movements:
karate, basketball, netball, hockey
rocking, swaying hips, wriggling, shaking, bending.
walking, jogging, moving forwards, backwards, side-shuffling, skipping, running, jumping, hopping and leaping
Will you use choreographic devices and production elements in your dance?
YES
NO
