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Select the correct technique: A short phrase, made up of basic dance actions, which expresses the style or the theme of the dance.
Transition
Motif
Dynamic
Routine
A choreographic device or structure where new movements are added to existing movements in a successive manner, for example, A, AB, ABC, ABCD.
Levels
Repetition
Reversal
Accumulation
A choreographic form in which a dance or movement sequence is performed in a backward order (like a rewound video).
Contrast
Retrograde
Reversal
Dynamic
A movement or series of movements that are noticeably different from anything seen so far in the dance.
Contrast
Dynamics
Levels
Mirror
What is this an example of?
Retrograde
Contrast
Levels
Motif
The way in which you perform a movement. E.g. sharp, smooth.
Dynamics
Transition
Motif
Pace
The performance of movements of a motif or sequence in the opposite order (but not in a backwards direction).
Contrast
Retrograde
Transition
Reversal
In a group dance, performing exactly the same movements at exactly the same time. In a solo, copying movements but in the opposite way, as though in a reflection.
Motif
Repetition
Copying
Mirroring
Using certain muscles to convey an emotional state.
Gesture
Facial expression
Spatial awareness
Dynamics
When a dancer duplicates a movement or number of movements.
Control
Accumulation
Repetition
Retrograde
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