Dance gcse Choreographic processes and devices

Choreography

The art of creating dance

Choreographic Processes

researching, improvising, generating, selecting, developing, structuring, refining and synthesising

Choreographic Process: Improvisation

Exploration or generation of movements without planning

Choreographic Process: Developing

The way in which movement material is manipulated

Choreographic Process: Structuring

The way in which material is organised to create the whole

Choreographic Devices

motif and development, repetition, contrast, highlights, climax, manipulation of number, unison and canon

Choreographic Device: Motif

A movement phrase encapsulating an idea that is repeated and developed throughout the dance

Choreographic Device: Motif Development

Ways in which a movement phrase can be varied

Choreographic Device: Repetition

Performing the same action or phrase again

Choreographic Device: Contrast

Movements or shapes that have nothing in common

Choreographic Device: Highlights

Important moments of a dance

Choreographic Device: Climax

The most significant moment of the dance

Choreographic Device: Manipulation of number

How the number of dancers in a group is used

Choreographic Device: Unison

Two or more dancers performing the same movement at the same time

Choreographic Device: Canon

When the same movements overlap in time