Elements of composition
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The document discusses key concepts in dance including: - Parts of the body used in dance such as the head, shoulders, fingers, torso, legs, and feet. - Body shapes like symmetrical, asymmetrical, rounded, twisted, and angular. - Types of energy in dance like sustained movement, percussive, vibratory, swinging, suspended, and collapsing. - Qualities of movement including flowing, tight, loose, sharp, swinging, swaying, suspended, collapsed, and smooth.
Elements of composition
- 1. In Dance
- 2. art of dance takes place in and through the human body mobile figure or shape, felt by the dancer, seen by others Parts of the Body: head, eyes, face, shoulders, ringers, tor so, legs, feet, etc.
- 3. Whole Body: body shape symmetrical/asymmetrical, rounded, twisted, angular, arabesque body systems: muscles, bones, organs, breath, balance, ref lexes inner: senses, perceptions, emotions, thoughts, int ention, imagination, identity
- 4. refers to the force of an action and can mean both the physical and psychic energy that drives and characterizes movement Attack: sharp/smooth, sudden/sustained Weight: Strength: push, horizontal, impacted Lightness: resist the down, initiate up Resiliency: rebound, even up and down
- 5. Flow: free, bound, balanced, neutral Quality: flowing, tight, loose, sharp, swinging , swaying, suspended, collapsed, smoot h
- 6. 1. sustained movement - smoothly, continuously, with flow and control 2. percussive - explosive or sharp 3. vibratory - trembling, shaking 4. swinging - traces an arc or curved line in space - body relax - repetitive