Physical Characteristics: Include observations such as what type of costumes & props are visible. What is the set? Lighting for the dance?
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Physical Characteristics:
Include observations such as what type of costumes & props are visible. What is the set? Lighting for the
dance? How about the dance flooring? What type of dance shoes or footwear is being worn?
Choreographic Characteristics:
Space: Include things like Levels used (is there high level with jumping? low level with kneeling? middle level
with loco motor movements?) What type of loco motor movements? (running, hopping, skipping, leaping, etc.)
Direction including forward, backward and diagonally on the performance space. Inward vs. outward focus.
Depth/Width on the stage including symmetry (the balancing of the movements equally on the stage) vs.
asymmetry (unequal or unbalanced staging). And phrases and transitions including high and low points and
dynamic changes in the course of the dance (much like you have with sentences in constructing a paragraph!).
Time: Include things like Speed/Tempo relating to the how fast or slow the dancers are moving in relation to the
music pulse/underlying beat. Stillness when the dancer is momentarily “frozen” in place in the dance.
Energy: Include movement qualities such as percussive, swinging, sustained, vibrating and suspending.
Important! Be sure to give examples of your observations (such as: “The dancer showed suspended energy
when she was held overhead by her partner). Do not simply state: “In this dance there was suspended energy”
video 1 link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZYhVpdXbQ
video 2 link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-OuqB1pgys
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