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| Choreographic Forms/structures | Movement Elements | Movement Skills | |||
| Canon | repetition of a movement phrase with groups starting a specific number of beats apart. | Force | energy behind movement (strong/weak, suspended/percussive, controlled/uncontrolled) | Locomotor | Non-locomotor |
| Rondo | one primary movement pattern that is accompanied by different secondary movement patterns. | Time | speed (tempo) | walk | twist |
| rhythm (organization of beats) | |||||
| ABA | movement phrase, a new movement phrase, and a return to the original movement phrase. | Space | direction (front, side, back, or diagonal) | run | snap |
| facing (stage right/left, upstage, down stage) | |||||
| size (large/small) | |||||
| level (high, medium, low, on the ground) | |||||
| floor pattern (circle, half circle, zigzag, diagonal line, horizontal line, and vertical line) | |||||
| focus (look up, down, right, left, behind, use multiple focuses) | |||||
| Theme/variation | movement pattern with varriations on the original pattern: A, A1, A2, A3, A4 | Shape | positions and ways body is used (curved, twisted, angular, straight, symmetrical, or asymmetrical) | jump | lunge |
| slide | bend | ||||
| turn | clap | ||||
| grapevine | stomp | ||||
| leap | sway | ||||
| slide | swing (arms, legs, torso) | ||||
| pivot | point | ||||