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Y DANCE
All About Dance
Performance Skills
Technical Skills:
Posture: How the body and spine are held
Alignment: Placement and position of limbs of the body
Co-ordination: Ability to move more than one body part together fluidly in dance
Balance: Ability to hold a position without moving
Strength: Use of muscles to control actions / positions
Flexibility: How far joints can be extended or moved
Core stability: Strength in the body's centre
Control: Ability to execute movements fluidly & safely
Stamina: Ability to dance for prolonged amount of time without losing energy or power.
*Safe Practice
Execution of movements; Clothing,
Jewellery, Hair, Footwear, Space.
Injury prevention: warm-up cool-down
Hydration, Diet...
Expressive Skills:
Focus: Where the eye line is held
Projection: The energy put into the quality & clarity of movements
Musicality: How music is used- sensitivity, mood, style, rhythm,
Dynamics: How movement is performed; in power, speed, weight, level...
Sense of style: Demonstrating distinctive actions & dynamics related to style
Communication of Choreographic intent: Sensitivity and understanding of the mood and meaning of the dance and communicating this to the audience
Y STUDIO
Other Performance Skills
Dynamics
Relationships
Spatial awareness
Accuracy
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