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    The five elements of dance are body, action, space, time, and energy. The body is the instrument of dance and can move in different ways. Action refers to any movement in dance including steps, lifts, and pauses. Dancers interact with space by moving in different directions, levels, and pathways either in one place or traveling. Time in dance includes rhythm, tempo, and taking cues from music or other dancers. Energy describes the dynamics and intensity of movement through its physical and emotional expression.

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    Elements of Dance

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    The five elements of dance are body, action, space, time, and energy. The body is the instrument of dance and can move in different ways. Action refers to any movement in dance including steps, lifts, and pauses. Dancers interact with space by moving in different directions, levels, and pathways either in one place or traveling. Time in dance includes rhythm, tempo, and taking cues from music or other dancers. Energy describes the dynamics and intensity of movement through its physical and emotional expression.

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    The five elements of dance are body, action, space, time, and energy. The body is the instrument of dance and can move in different ways. Action refers to any movement in dance including steps, lifts, and pauses. Dancers interact with space by moving in different directions, levels, and pathways either in one place or traveling. Time in dance includes rhythm, tempo, and taking cues from music or other dancers. Energy describes the dynamics and intensity of movement through its physical and emotional expression.

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    Elements of Dance

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    The five elements of dance are body, action, space, time, and energy. The body is the instrument of dance and can move in different ways. Action refers to any movement in dance including steps, lifts, and pauses. Dancers interact with space by moving in different directions, levels, and pathways either in one place or traveling. Time in dance includes rhythm, tempo, and taking cues from music or other dancers. Energy describes the dynamics and intensity of movement through its physical and emotional expression.

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    ELEMENTS OF DANCE

    body action space

    Time energy
    The elements of dance are part of the
    foundational concepts that dancers understand
    and practice, and they provide a way of framing
    and talking about movement in any type of
    dance. While different dance styles call for
    specialized skills and stylization choices, the
    under lying elements of dance body, action,
    space, time, and energy Are visible in all dance
    experiences.
    The art of dance takes place in and through the
    human body. In dance, the body is the mobile
    figure or shape, felt by the dancer, seen by
    others. The body is sometimes relatively still
    and sometimes changing as the dancer moves in
    place or travels through the dance area. Dancers
    may emphasize specific parts of their body in a
    dance phrase or their whole body.
    Action is any human movement included in the act of dancing.
    It can include dance steps, facial movements, lifts, carries, and
    catches, and even everyday movements such as walking.
    Dancers may choose movement that has been done before, or
    they may add their own original movements to the existing
    dance movement vocabulary. Dancers may also revise or
    embellish movement they have learned from others. Dance is
    made up of streams of movement and pauses, so action refers
    not only to steps and sequences, but also to pauses and
    moments of relative stillness.
    Dancers interact with space in a myriad
    of ways. They may stay in one place
    and move parts of their body or their
    whole body, or they may travel from
    one place to another. They may alter the
    direction, level, size ,and pathways of
    their movements.
    Human movement is naturally rhythmic in the broad sense that we
    alternate activity and rest. Breath and waves are examples of
    rhythms in nature that repeat, but not as consistently as in a
    metered rhythm. Spoken word and conversation have rhythm and
    dynamics, but the patterns are characteristically more in
    consistent and unpredictable. Time may also be organized in other
    ways including clock time, sensed time, and event-sequence.
    Dancers may take sight cues from each other to start the next
    phrase or use a shared awareness of sensed time to end a dance.
    They may even take cues from an event such as a train whistle
    during an outdoor dance performance. The inherent rhythms in
    our movement and our aural landscape are a rich source of
    variation in dance.
    Energy is about how movement happens
    it refers to the dynamics of an action and can
    mean both the physical and psychic energy that
    drives and characterizes movement.

    Energy is not a single dimension. IT HAS 3


    DIMENSIONS
    Height
    Width
    depth

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