• Tempo - the speed of the beat
- The tempo itself can determine the attitude/movement of the dancer and vice versa.
- quickness->to dazzle/entertain
- slow->indulge, caring, fatigue, pain, sadness
• Momentum - implicit affinity for energy
- You, the dancer, can create the energy rather than the music
- How can you create intensity by building the momentum
- Momentum can decrease, slow down but also suggest weakening, and as the choreographer you need to think of ending tempo.
• Duration - length of movement determined by how long it takes to do it
- Range of duration is determined by specific movement and what our bodies can do
- The relationship of movement to the beat
- How many beats at a given tempo the movement takes
- Can feel restrictive in life
- In dance it gives freedom in the duration
- How does the choreography make the audience feel?
- Regular use of time feels comforting, supportive or can feel deadening and monotonous
- Without changes in tempo or level, a piece is bland
- Irregular use of time feels unpredictable, nothing to lean back on, be difficult to teach, preform, and record.
- Makes it difficult to anticipate but can also be entertaining and fun.
- Mixing regular and irregular uses of time in your choreography can keep the audience interested and make creating the piece
• Accent - emphasis or stress
- Accent creates the idea of impulse or beginning place
- Where the accent falls regularly feels like the start
- When accent occurs periodically, interval meters are produced
- how can accents stand out rather than becoming a routine or pattern?
• Meter - the grouping of beats around an accent
- Establishes regularity in timing
- Can be a constant to play off of or a contrast against
- If time is flow it also contains its opposite; stillness
- Holding, savoring the present
- Stillness; a moment tattooed
- If you can learn to be still, you can move your audience
