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Creating and Choreographing English – Dance

Creating and Choreographing English – Dance. Goal: To construct a dance that represents the short story according to the plot development. Through interpreting and critiquing you will develop a deeper depth of knowledge of your subject areas of dance and English. The Plot. Exposition

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Creating and Choreographing English – Dance

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  1. Creating and ChoreographingEnglish – Dance Goal: To construct a dance that represents the short story according to the plot development. Through interpreting and critiquing you will develop a deeper depth of knowledge of your subject areas of dance and English

  2. The Plot Exposition Inciting incident Rising action Climax Falling action Resolution denouement

  3. Exposition Term used to describe events at the beginning of a story that set the scene and introduce background, characters, and conflict. The exposition is the starting point of a narrative and can be thought of as the status quo (a.k.a the existing state of affairs), before the complications of the plot begin.

  4. Today’s Choreographic Device Develop movement that expressed the exposition of your story. ONLY USE HUMAN GESTURES AS YOU MOVEMENT!!!!! Create just the simple movement that an actor would add to his or her character.

  5. Gesture Becomes Dance Embellishment Embellishment: 1. an ornament or decoration. 2. a fictitious addition, as to a factual statement. 3. Music.a.ornament (def. 8).b.auxiliary tone. 4. the act of embellishing. 5. state of being embellished.

  6. Part 1 Vary the Space • Take the movement you have created using embellishment and make the movement vary in size. Use the following sizes to initiate your choices in variation. • Small, shrinking, modest, tiny, short, slight • Medium, mean, neutral, monotone, • Large, grand, super size, tall

  7. Part 2: Vary the Energy Take the series of movement and add different levels of force and effort to represent the emotions being constructed in the story. Force Effort Tension Weight Stillness Soft Light Resistance

  8. Part 4: Vary the Time TEMPO: musical terminology, tempo (Italian for time, plural: tempi) is the speed or pace of a given piece. It is a crucial element of composition, as it can affect the mood and difficulty of a piece.

  9. Music Terms for Tempo Adagio — slow and stately (literally, "at ease") (66–76 bpm Agitato – hurried, restless Allegro appassionato – fast and passionately Andante — at a walking pace Allegro — fast and bright Presto — very fast

  10. Part 4: Transposition Transpose the movement to another body part. 1. To reverse or transfer the order or place of; interchange.2. To put into a different place or order:

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