Modern Dance Technique

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Across
  1. 2. Is the complete release of the muscles of the body, giving into gravity (drops of different parts of the body falling independently).
  2. 9. Is a prolonged high point. It is created at the peak of movement delaying the takeover of gravity
  3. 10. The body moves around a stationary vertical axis.
  4. 13. A movement symbol which carries a specific meaning. It expresses an idea, attitude or emotional state.
  5. 14. Dance: Dance as a reflection of the period in which it is composed: manifestation of the world and the time in which the choreographer lives
  6. 15. Working different parts of the body separately from each other.
  7. 17. The energy of movement expressed in varying intensity, accent, and quality; the changes in the treatment of movement contrasts (element of dance)
Down
  1. 1. In general, a gathering of forces to increase the projection of intent; in particular, ‘focus’ refers to the dancer’s line of sight externally and internally. It’s the thought, attention, and movement toward a central point of attraction or activity.
  2. 3. Movement that travels through space from one place to the other.
  3. 4. Energy released in a fall is accumulated and rechanneled at the bottom of the fall. In falls the muscles reach the limit of their stretch at the bottom and pull back or contract slightly, like a spring taking the energy into a new direction.
  4. 5. A way of using the entire body to create the feeling of length and stretch in a movement, without tensing or gripping. There are five points of opposition in the standing body: the head, the right hand, the left hand, the right foot and the left foot. Each of these five points of opposition in the extremities can oppose each of the others.
  5. 6. A quality of movement. Isolating a part of the body and letting it submit to gravity while maintaining suspension and opposition. Limon dancers use the floor as a strong base. Challenge the law of gravity, and infuse dance with a sense of breath.
  6. 7. Symbols created to project a statement or emotion from imagination into visual form.
  7. 8. of Breath Modern dance does not deny or hide the breath; it embraces it, using breath as momentum for movement. The gentle flow of the inhale and exhale carries us along, much like waves carry a boat on the ocean. We gesture with an arm, articulate with a leg, all while our bodies rise and fall upon the shape-flow support of our breath. Fighting this natural rhythm creates a dancing body that is unnatural, not of this world (or at least not comfortable with it).
  8. 11. The placement of all the parts of the body in relationship to each other
  9. 12. Is the sequential path of movement through the parts of the body. Like a chain reactions. SUCCESSIONAL MOVEMENT.
  10. 16. An increase in stress or intensity through additional force.