Elements of Dance Ballet Hispanico（Hispanico跳芭蕾舞的元素）.pdf

Elements of Dance Space: refers to the space through which the dancer’s body moves (general or personal space, level, size, direction, pathway, focus). Time: is applied as both musical and dance elements (beat, tempo, speed, rhythm, sudden, slow, sustained). Force/Energy: the force applied to dance to accentuate the weight, attack, strength, and flow of a dancer’s movement (sharp, strong, light, heavy, bound, free-flow). Relationship: refers to the relationship the dancers’ body parts have to everything else (spatial relationships, time relationships, relationship to music, and to each other). Edited from Creative Dance for all Ages, Anne Green Gilbert and Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) from the Dance Education Laboratory (DEL), 92nd Street Y. Artistic Director: Eduardo Vilaro I Founder: Tina Ramirez I Executive Director: Marie-Louise Silva Stegall Suggested Activities Embodying the Elements of Dance Space: Time: • Ask students to move through the space • Ask students to think about the concept in specific line shapes (straight, curvy, of time. How do you tell time? (seconds, diagonal, zig zag, vertical, horizontal…) minutes, hours) Any movement takes • Have line shapes on individually written time, but unlike a clock the speed can on a card, divide students into 4 groups speed up and slow down. and have each group pick one card from • Mirroring: In pairs, have students face which to create a sequence that moves each other (one will be the mirror and the in the line spacing. other will initiate the movement that the • Have two groups at a time present their ‘mirror’ must follow). Ask lead to come up se