Friday 19th September 2014 - physical and interpretive skills

Friday 19th September 2014

Physical and interpretive skills

Physical skills - 

• Flexibility - Using your legs and back to help make movements look better and bigger. Helped by continuous stretching of the leg and the back. 
• Posture - The way that you hold yourself, if your back is straight your posture is good however if your back is slouched your posture is not so good.
• Alignment - The placement of bones whilst completing different movements.
• Strength - How strong you are to be able to complete particular movements.
• Stamina - How long you can work for without getting out of breath
• Balance - How you are able to hold certain positions without losing your position or wobbling.
• Extension - The way that you use your limbs to extend your movements through to your fingers and feet.
• Co-ordination - The way that you can use your body to different things t the same time.

Interpretive skills - 

• Focus - Making sure that you are concentrating on each movement, spacing and facial expressions.
• Projection - The way that you make your movements and facial expressions big enough so that everyone in the audience no matter how far back they are can see.
• Facial expression - The different expressions that you make with your face to show different emotions that run through a theme in a dance.
• Musicality - The way that you make the music that is used to compliment the dance, by interpreting it to your theme, concept and starting point. 

This information was from Dance dictionary http://www.dancedictionary.com/ (19th September 2014)