BLOGGER TEMPLATES AND TWITTER BACKGROUNDS

Friday 28 March 2008

MOTIF and Development

A Motif is one single, simple, short movement or chain of movements that are smaller than a phrase.

Ways to develop the Motif:

  1. Repetition
  2. Retrogade (I.E. Backwards)
  3. Embellishment/Ornamentation
  4. Inversion (I.E. upside down or lateral)
  5. Size (I.E. condense/expand)
  6. Tempo (fast/slow/stop with the movement in its original size)
  7. Rhythm (beats altered, not the speed)
  8. Quality/Dynamics
  9. Instrumentation (perform movement with several body parts)
  10. Force (strength/weakness)
  11. Background (let the rest of the body do something else)
  12. Staging (different place/facing...)
  13. Levels + Planes (horizontal, vertical, floor, knees...)
  14. Additive/Incorporative (simultaneously execute jump, turn, run, slide...)
  15. Fragmentation (execute one part of the motif, or change the order...)
  16. Combination (any of the above)

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