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1
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relationship content

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  • lead and follow
  • mirroring
  • action and reaction
  • accumulation
  • complement and contrast
  • counterpoint
  • contact
  • formations
2
Q

choreographic processes

A
  • researching
  • improvising
  • generating
  • selecting
  • developing
  • structuring
  • refining and synthesising.
3
Q

structuring devices

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  • binary
  • ternary
  • rondo
  • narrative
  • episodic
  • beginning/middle/end
  • unity
  • logical sequence
  • transitions.
4
Q

choreographic devices

A
  • motif and development
  • repetition
  • contrast
  • highlights
  • climax
  • manipulation of number
  • unison and canon.
5
Q

aural settings

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  • song
  • instrumental
  • orchestral
  • spoken word
  • silence
  • natural sound
  • found sound
  • body percussion.
6
Q

performance environments

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• proscenium arch
• end stage
• site-sensitive (i.e. designed for non-theatre
spaces)
• in-the-round.
7
Q

define a BINARY structure

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A composition in two parts or sections.

AB

8
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define a TERNARY structure

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A composition in three parts.

ABC

9
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define a RONDO structure

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A music or dance form with alternating and repeating sections (e.g. verse and chorus.)

10
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define a NARRATIVE structure

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Dance that tells a story.

11
Q

define a EPISODIC structure

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A choreography with several sections, linked by a theme

12
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define a LOGICAL SEQUENCE structure

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The flow of phrases or sections of a dance

13
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define TRANSITIONS

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Links between dance phrases or sections.

14
Q

define UNITY

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A sense of ‘wholeness’ or harmony.

15
Q

define climax

A

The most significant moment of the dance.

16
Q

motif development

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Ways in which a movement phrase can be varied.

17
Q

manipulation of number

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How the number of dancers in a group is used.

18
Q

canon

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When the same movements overlap in time.

19
Q

define proscenium arch

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an arch framing the opening between the stage and the auditorium in some theatres

20
Q

define in-the-round

A

performance with the audience placed on at least three sides of the stage

21
Q

name all the examples of spatial content

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  • pathways
  • levels
  • directions
  • size of movement
  • patterns
  • spatial design
22
Q

define pathways

A

Designs traced in space (on the floor or in the air

23
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define levels

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Distance from the ground: low, medium or high.

24
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define directions

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The facing of a movement.

25
Q

define size of movement

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how small or large movements are

26
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define spatial design

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The way that elements of space have been considered, utilised and designed (can be personal space and general space).

27
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define patterns

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A repeated design traced in space (on the floor or in the air).