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| how or in what manner a movement occurs |
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| a contraction of muscles that requires energy or effort |
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| opening up to what is happening in the moment and being influenced by it |
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| express the feeling of being in charge, of making things happen |
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| time patterns with an underlying steady beat |
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| what happens when an accent falls in an unexpected place in the measure |
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| free, irregular beat with an uneven time pattern |
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| when everyone synchronizes their movements to the same beat |
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| short phrases of beat patterns are created by one dancer or group, and then repeated by others |
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| patterns are repeated in an overlapping fashion, with one pattern beginning before the next one ends |
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| dancers answer each other with beat patterns that complement or contrast with each other rather than repeating the same phrase |
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| the self-space, personal space, determined by the limbs' reach into space |
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| where a kinesphere rests. a point directly under the center of gravity of the body |
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| relationship to the earth (high, middle or low) |
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| the orientation of the front of the body; where the body is facing |
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| relationship of parts of the body to each other |
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| movements that simply go forward or back, rise or sink, or move right and left |
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| movements that stay within a given plane |
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| allows a group of dancers to function as a single unit |
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