Unit 2 Section 4&5 "Elements & Textures in Dance"

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Across
  1. 2. Movement that travels from place to place, usually identified by weight transference on the feet.
  2. 3. The identifying attributes created by the release, follow-through, and termination of energy.
  3. 5. Happens in a stationary place--any movement anchored to one spot by a body part using only the available space in any direction without losing the initial body contact.
  4. 6. Two or more groups opposing each other (e.g., opposing rhythms, energy, levels, etc.)
  5. 10. Movement is used for expression and/or communication.
  6. 11. How the movements are organized to create a dance.
  7. 14. The volume of shape in which a non-locomotor movement is used.
  8. 16. The interrelationship of dancers to each other and the space to which they are moving.
  9. 17. Concerns position and dimension--an environment necessary for movement.
  10. 20. One group responds to another groups movements (e.g., soloists dancing with a corps de ballet)
Down
  1. 1. A movement or shape performed in such a way as to give emphasis.
  2. 4. Informal in design--Not the same space on each side of the stage--suggests action and change.
  3. 7. Having formal balance and even design--suggests a feeling of stability and security.
  4. 8. The relationships between dancers and their movements to other dancers onstage at the same time.
  5. 9. How the dancer moves.
  6. 12. Movement may change in speed, going twice as fast, twice as slow, half as fast, half as slow, etc.
  7. 13. Movements may go forward, backward, sideways, circling, and making different designs in space.
  8. 15. The height of a dancer in relation to the floor.
  9. 18. Groups performing the same movement phrase one after the other--as in a round or a cannon.
  10. 19. All dancers performing the same movements in exactly the same way.