DANCE - KANIKANI (Elements)

ELEMENTS OF DANCE  (Ministry of Education NZ Curriculum Document) The key ingredients of Dance are:                      BODY AWARENESS Locomotor  Non-locomotor  walk  jump  roll  slide  waltz  run  hop  climb  skip  gallop  bend  stretch  twist  swing  push  pull  rock  balance  Body base  Body shape  Body parts  standing  sitting  kneeling  lying  stretched  curled  twisted  angular  symmetrical  asymmetrical  head  shoulders  legs  arms  elbows  fingers  wrists  knees  ankles  toes

                               SPACE

Level  Range  Place  high  medium  low  near  far  big  small  personal  general  Direction  Pathway  Focus  forward  backward  right/left  up/down  in the air  on the floor  straight  curved  zigzag  irregular  fixed  moving  single  multi

                             TIME

Tempo	Duration	Accent
fast  slow  increasing  decreasing	long  short	emphasis
	Beat	Rythm
	underlying  pulse	steady  pattern  breath  irregular

                            ENERGY

Weight	Flow	Quality
firm  light  soft  strong  weak  heavy	free  bound	sudden  sharp  percussive  smooth  delicate  vibratory  sustained  erratic  explosive  collapse

                          RELATIONSHIPS

Individual  Pair  Group

Objects  Environments  over  through  towards  meeting  copying  alone  under  beside  away/from  mirroring  shadowing  scattering  action  unison  around  behind  near/far  matching  contrasting  gathering  reaction  canon  parting  linking  between  connected  in/out  on/off  simultaneous  successive