DANCE

SCIM 1023 FOUNDATION OF CREATIVE ARTS

Contents
Dance style How it is put together How it stimulates our sense

Dance style
Ballet
Classical / formal dance Highly theatrical dance presentation consisting of solo dancer, duet, and choruses Principle : the reduction of human gesture to bare essentials, heightened and developed into meaningful pattern.

Modern Dance
Broad variety / antiballetic Revolt against the stylized and tradition-bound element of ballet

Dance style
World Concert / Ritual Dance
World dance : specifics dances to a particular country Ritual Dance : dances having ceremonial functions, formal characteristics, particular prescribed procedures

Folk Dance
Represents a body of group dances performed to traditional music Characteristics identifiable with a given culture Establishes an individual sense of participation in society / tribe / mass movement

Dance style
Jazz Dance
From Africa Relies on improvisation and syncopation

HOW IT IS PUT TOGETHER

Formalized Movement of Ballet

Formalized Movement of Ballet

Familiar element : dancers toe work / dancing on point

How it is put together?

LINE, FORM, REPETITION apply to human body Dancers body represents for analysis purposes, a sculptural, three dimensional form reflect of LINE Choreographic work represents compositional arrangements in LINE and SHAPE Exist in two level
Pictorial communication employing symbol Design of transition with movement between moments

How it is put together?

Dance hold together with RHYTHM
Spatial arrangement Flow of dancers energy level

MIME element of body movement

 THEME, IMAGE, STORYLINE

How dance communicates its idea:
Narrative element Communicate through abstract idea As a diversion (no narrative, no abstract idea)

Music
Dance must always contains element of MUSIC Response to the musical score Relationship between dynamics of music and dynamics of dance

Music
MISE-EN-SCENE
Theatrical element of dance Interrelationship of the dance properties, setting and floor of the theatrical environment

LIGHTING
Affect emotional sense
Color Angles Movement

Dance stimulates the sense by:

Representation of moving images
Line & Form

Force
Beat of the music

Sign language
Symbol communication

Color
Costume, lighting, set Creating the mood