Safe Dance Practice - Year 11 Dance
Part A
Safe dance practice is the guidelines and principles put in place to reduce risk of injury and help prolong a dancer’s career. We need an understanding of body placement, kinaesthetic awareness and coordination to perform to our full potential if wanting it to be successful. Dance as an art form is trying to communicate an idea or concept intent to an audience. The movement will partially communicate that, but it is how you express the movement that will tell a story. Our core performance choreographed by Miss McKellar to ‘A Woman’s Work’ expresses movements that relate to the lyrics of the song. These movements use various dance techniques and body skills to portray the concept intent. These dance techniques include body awareness, technique, body articulation, axial movement, locomotor movement, turns, falls, balance and kinaesthetic awareness. All these dance techniques enhance my performance of the dance by reaching out to the viewer so they understand the meaning of the dance.
In our core performance, body awareness is the need to develop a full connectivity between the different parts of the body to be able to move with the utmost efficiency while taking risks and maximizing every moment. In the dance, we use body awareness all throughout the dance. An example of this technique is shown when on the floor, while my left knee is bent in a flexion movement our right leg is extending away from our body in a turned out manner. My torso is contracting over my extended leg while our arms are scooping the negative space around the shape. While in this shape, we need to be aware that our arms are not behind our body as this may cause us to lose balance and stability. In this shape, I try to keep a turned out position and weight placement correct. If not on balance I could disrupt the line of placement and fall over, causing the line of movement to be distorted. Body awareness refers to safe dance practice by referring to how I am aware of how my body
Safe dance practice is the guidelines and principles put in place to reduce risk of injury and help prolong a dancer’s career. We need an understanding of body placement, kinaesthetic awareness and coordination to perform to our full potential if wanting it to be successful. Dance as an art form is trying to communicate an idea or concept intent to an audience. The movement will partially communicate that, but it is how you express the movement that will tell a story. Our core performance choreographed by Miss McKellar to ‘A Woman’s Work’ expresses movements that relate to the lyrics of the song. These movements use various dance techniques and body skills to portray the concept intent. These dance techniques include body awareness, technique, body articulation, axial movement, locomotor movement, turns, falls, balance and kinaesthetic awareness. All these dance techniques enhance my performance of the dance by reaching out to the viewer so they understand the meaning of the dance.
In our core performance, body awareness is the need to develop a full connectivity between the different parts of the body to be able to move with the utmost efficiency while taking risks and maximizing every moment. In the dance, we use body awareness all throughout the dance. An example of this technique is shown when on the floor, while my left knee is bent in a flexion movement our right leg is extending away from our body in a turned out manner. My torso is contracting over my extended leg while our arms are scooping the negative space around the shape. While in this shape, we need to be aware that our arms are not behind our body as this may cause us to lose balance and stability. In this shape, I try to keep a turned out position and weight placement correct. If not on balance I could disrupt the line of placement and fall over, causing the line of movement to be distorted. Body awareness refers to safe dance practice by referring to how I am aware of how my body