Dance Vocabulary 7

2. Dances that were created and performed by a specific group within a culture.
5. Pertaining to sensations and understanding of bodily movement.
8. Manipulation of dance movement, sequences, or phrases using tools like repetition, inversion, canon, retrograde, call and response, or chance.
10. In dance training, it is the process of adjusting the skeletal and muscular system to gravity to support effective functionality.
11. The organization of choreography and movement to fulfill the artistic intent of dance or dance study; often referred to as choreographic form.

1. Concepts explored or employed to support body-mind connections.
3. A brief sequence of related movements that have a sense of continuity and artistic or rhythmic completion.
4. Popular in swing dancing; A three step sequence taken on two beats of music.
6. To add or subtract steps within a specific number of beats performed by dancers to vary the normal step and to allow for personal expression and creativity.
7. Investigate multiple movement possibilities to learn more about an idea.
9. Referral to choreography without a narrative. This dance does not tell a story or express any kind of feelings or ideas other than movement itself.