Improvisation: Artists create movement on the spur of the moment
Canon: Based on the use of one repeated movement phrase performed by different dancers starting the phrase a number of counts apart.
Meter: The use of meter is a manner in which music is divided into groups of measures.
Choreography: A whole dance with a beginning middle and end.
Choreographer: A person who finds movement for and organizes actions into dances
Locomotors: Refers to movements that travel through space.
Tempo: The speed of movement as it progresses faster, slower or on a paused beat
Level: The use of level is the relationship of the dancer’s body to the floor. High, middle, low.
Unison: To move exactly the same way as other people in the group.
Transition: A principle of good choreographic form that provides a bridge between one phrases of movement into the next or between sections of a choreography.
Upstage: refers to the movement directed to the back of the stage away from the audience
Downstage: refers to the movement directed to the front of the stage towards the audience.
The purpose of a choreographic journal: Enables the dancing artist to better express him self and keep an accurate account of ideas themes and movements.
Importance of improvisation to a choreographer: helps to discover new original movement.
How to use lyrics of a song to enhance your choreography: A choreographer must consider the lyric of a song when he creates a dance. Lyrics can be enhanced through the use of gesture, themes or characterization in his work.
Difference between a soloist and ensemble of dancers: A soloist must project is movement and feelings boldly because he can not create contrast, level changes and formations like an ensemble of dancers can.