Understanding Dance: Space, Time, Force, and Movements, Schemes and Mind Maps of Dance

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 Dancing is all about movement.

Dance is the expression of ideas,

feelings, and beliefs through

movement.

Space

Time

Force

 General Space

› Space shared with other dancers

 Personal Space

› Space your body is in

› Here’s how you find your personal space: › stand up in an open area. › Hold your arms out as if you were reaching as far as you can in both directions. › Turn around, keeping your hands outstretched. › The area with in your arms’ reach is your personal space.

 Force is the use of energy in movement.

You use a different kind of energy when

you are jumping up and down than you do

when you are gliding across the floor.

 Movements:

› Sharp - usually quick, strong, and short like

jumping (Clapping hands)

› Smooth - movements are connected; they’re

graceful like gliding. (doing the wave)

› Heavy - different from light movements.

You’re going to drop your feet more strongly

on the ground when you move across the floor.

› Light-like ballet, dancers look as if they’re

dancing on air.

 Flow is how dancers describe how they

spend their energy.

› Free Flowing movement looks like it could go

on forever

› Bound movement is very controlled and can be

quickly stopped.

 Form is the way a dance is organized.

› AB organization- two parts to the dance (A and B). The dancers have different movements in each part, and sometimes the two parts will seem totally different. › ABA organization- there are three parts. The movements of the dancers in the first A and the last A are the same, or similar. The second A might be shorter. The B part is usually quite different. The tempo in the B part may be faster for example. › Call-and-Response- like a conversation. One group or individual performs and then another group or individual responds

 As an art form, dance uses space, time,

force, and various locomotor and non-

locomotor movements to communicate

ideas, thoughts, and feelings. Dancers can

make you feel excited, worried, curious,

and amazed. The dance they do might

make you want to laugh or make you sad.

And they can do all this without saying a

word and even without showing their

faces.