Transcript The Elements of Dance

Agenda
• To Get:
– Handouts off the front shelf
– BE SURE TO RETURN THE
READING WHEN
FINISHED!!
• To Do:
– Review Exam scores/questions or
concerns/ correction days
– Intro to dance
– Opener:
• Why do people dance?
• I will do your note book check for music
while you read and answer questions
– Notes
• Elements of Dance
– Application:
• Video Analysis of the Elements
– Exit:
• What are the elements of dance?
Why do people
Is the desire to dance something we learn or is it
something we are born with?
Nature vs. Nurture!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onaZCPMTKcs
Read the article on dance and brain research entitled:
“Why do people like to dance and move to the beat?”
These answers need to be on page 46 in your notebook!
• 1) What is one thing that stimulates a brain’s reward center?
• 2) What are the three areas of the brain that music pleasures and rewards? State
where these regions are located.
• 3) What are the three reasons why dance is pleasurable?
• 4) What are mirror neurons?
• 5) How do mirror neurons work when you’re watching someone dance?
• 6) How can music refine your movement skills? You must include all three ways
when answering this question.
• 7) What is Capoeira? What is this art appealing to viewers?
• 8) Apply what you’ve learned: Based on the information you learned from this
article, explain why the baby imitated Beyonce’s moves in “Single Babies.”
– Note: you will need to use some of the vocabulary learned in the article to support your answer.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=experts-dance&print=true
• Dance is a natural activity that
becomes artistic when it is
structured and formed by the
elements of dance and the
principles of composition.
• Dances are composed of
locomotor and non-locomotor
movements:
– Locomotor movements:
• travel through space;
• move across the floor
– Non-locomotor movements:
• stationary
• These movements do not move across
the floor
What is
dance?
Learning the Vocabulary
The Elements of Dance
• Time
• Space
• Force
TIME
• Definition: the relationship of one movement or part of a
movement to another
• PULSE: Ongoing underlying beat
• BEAT: most basic unit of rhythm;
underlying rhythmic pulse (downbeat)
• TEMPO: the speed with which the
movement is performed
• RHYTHM: a flow of movement having
regular accented beats
• ACCENT: a movement or shape performed
in such a way as to give emphasis
TIME, continued
• DURATION: the
• PHRASE: a
length of time a
sequence of related
movement lasts; can
movements that has
either be a long or
a sense of rhythmic
short time or
completion
somewhere in
between
Video Application:
Turn to page 47 in your notebook entitled, “Application of Dance
Elements: Video Clips”
• As you watch the
following clip, answer
the corresponding
questions on the sheet
entitled, “Application
of Dance Elements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=7qYBAegjikE
Video Clips.”
• You must tell why!
SYTYCD Aaron, Alexis, Curtis
Tap Routine
• SPACE: the area in which you move; the
area around you
Yes, there’s a few more
• GENERAL SPACE: the space
shared by all dancers, the dance
area; reaches beyond personal space
• PERSONAL SPACE: the space
reached while stationary or not
moving
• SHAPE: the form created by the
body’s position in space;
open/closed,
symmetrical/asymmetrical,
angular/curved
Which is personal? Which is
general?
Other words associated with
SPACE – put on the bottom of pg 45
• LEVEL: vertical
distance from the
floor; high, middle,
low
» DIRECTION:
the way a
dancer faces
or moves;
forward,
backward,
sideways, up
and down
• PATHWAY:
patterns made as a
dancer faces or
moves through the
air or on the floor
• SIZE: the
magnitude of a
body shape or
movement
What is the level and direction?
Video Application:
Turn to page 47 in your notebook entitled, “Application of Dance
Elements: Video Clips
• As you watch the
following clip, answer the
corresponding questions
on the sheet entitled,
“Application of Dance
Elements: Video Clips.”
• Why was a specific level
used? Explain your
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg
answer!
Evolution of Dance
FORCE
• FORCE: the degree
of muscular tension
and use of energy
while moving; the
use of weight
Different levels of Force
• DYNAMICS: how a movement is done
– Sharp/Smooth
– Tension/Relaxation
• FLOW: continuity of movement.
– How does one movement blend into another?
– Bound/Flowing
• WEIGHT: strength or lightness of movement
– Heavy/Light
• ENERGY: the power or ability to be active
Video Application:
Turn to page 47 in your notebook entitled, “Application of Dance
Elements: Video Clips
• As you watch the following clip,
answer the corresponding questions on
the sheet entitled, “Application of
Dance Elements: Video Clips.”
• YOU MUST DESCRIBE
WHAT MAKES A STEP
HEAVY/FLOW AND
THEN EXPLAIN WHY
THE STEP WAS
WRITTEN THAT WAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=MGjfj4478fY
Jasmine and Fik Shun – Travis Wall
Drawing Page
Draw your element terms on page 48!
10 Minutes
Exit Slip: Put on ½ sheet of paper
• Identify the dance element characteristic pictured.
What element of dance is the most important in the following clip?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXO-jKksQkM