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Welcome to this online resource for dance educators, students, and teaching artists! The Elements of Dance are the foundational concepts and vocabulary that help students develop movement skills and understand dance as an artistic practice. This framework is a way to discuss any kind of movement.
Elements of my Dance Complete this worksheet about your choreography project. Fill out first with initial ideas and then change along the way so that this form matches your dance when you perform. Use each of the blanks to identify the Laban Movement Analysis categories: Body, Effort, Space, and Shape. Body- What parts move?
These are just some of the ways to describe each dance element. . . there are many more possibilities for each element. Can you think of others? Add your own ideas & words... Head, eyes, torso, shoulders, fingers, legs, feet ... Patterns: upper/lower body, homologous, contralateral, midline ....
This worksheet outlines the 5 basic elements of dance, and allows students to identify, analyze and describe how the elements of dance are used in the performances they observe. This is a great activity for students to complete as part of a dance unit or as a sub plan.
Elements of form: Unity, contrast, repetition, transition, variation, development, climax, resolution, balance, proportion, sequence, or harmony. Sequential form: compositions in which sections follow each other according the definite order. 1. Two part AB.
Analysis Tools and Assignments for each element are below.
The Elements of Dance Ask: WHO? DOES WHAT? WHERE? WHEN? HOW? Answer: A dancer moves through space and time with energy B.A.S.T.E. BODY ACTION SPACE TIME ENERGY Concepts (in bold font) with some suggestions for word lists and descriptors under each concept. Parts of the Body Head, eyes, torso, shoulders, fingers, legs, feet, etc. Whole Body
Introduce your students to the Elements of Dance with this pack of lesson plans and assessment resources for teaching the 5 elements of dance. The lesson plans outline a 5-day mini unit- each day focusing on one element of dance- Body, Space, Time, Energy, and Relationship.
These PDF worksheets in three flexible graphic organizer formats allow students to write notes about the Elements of Dance (Body, Action, Space, Time, Energy) used as they analyze works of choreography.
Introduce your students to the Elements of Dance with this set of activities on the element of time. There are 5 elements of dance that help us develop our movement skills and understand dance- Body, Space, Time, Energy, and Relationship.