ELEMENTS

Elements of dance

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Elements of dance

Body
Action
Space
Time
Energy
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 BODY
• The physical material of a
person or organism.

1 • The mobile figure or shape, felt

by the dancer, seen by others.
• It refers to how the entire body
is molded in space or the
configuration of the body parts
 BODY
• The body can be rounded,
angular or the combination of

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the two.
• Other body shapes can be from
wide to narrow and from high to
low.
• They can be symmetrical and
asymmetrical.
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 action
• Any human movement included
in the act of dancing

2 • It can include dance steps, facial

movements, partner lifts,
gestures, and even everyday
movements such as walking.
 space
• The area that the dance
performers occupy and where
they move.

3 Spatial Elements:
• Shape
• Level
• Direction
• Pathways
• Focus
• Size
 Time
• Performers move with tempo of
an underlying known as beat or
pulse.

4 • The duration of movement.

• Beats
• Tempo
• Accent
• Rhythmic Patterns
• Duration
 energy
• (also known as force) gives
movement varying degrees of
expressive intensity by how it is

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• includes the speed which refers
to how fast or slows of the
movement