Choreographic decisions - Planned or Unplanned
Action content, including
- travel
- turn
- elevation
- gesture
- stillness
- use of different body parts
- floor work
- transfer of weight.
Dynamic content, including
- fast/slow
- sudden/sustained
- acceleration/deceleration
- strong/light
- direct/indirect
- flowing/abrupt.
Spatial content, including
• pathways
- levels
- directions
- size of movement
- patterns
- spatial design.
Relationship content, including:
- lead and follow
- mirroring
- action and reaction
- accumulation
- complement and contrast
- counterpoint
- contact
- formations.
Choreographic processes, including:
- researching
- improvising
- generating
- selecting
- developing
- structuring
- refining and synthesising.
Structuring devices and form, including:
- binary
- ternary
- rondo
- narrative
- episodic
- beginning/middle/end
- unity
- logical
- sequence
- transitions.
Choreographic devices, including:
- motif and development
- repetition
- contrast
- highlights
- climax
- manipulation of number
- unison and canon.
Unison:
group movement performed by the whole team at the same time;
Reversals:
performing of the movements of a motif or sequence in reverse order (but not in a backwards direction);
Retrogade:
Performing backwards, as if rewinding a video.
Canon:
repeated movement down a line of people one after the other;
Contrast:
Creating oppositions for emphasis; oppositions may be of various kinds: gestural, rhythmic, directional etc.
Fragmentation:
Only a part of the movement sequence/motif is manipulated. A movement is broken down into smaller units;
Mirror:
Inverting the movement phrase, executing it as if ‘looking in a mirror’. A forward step becomes a backward step; movement sideward.