Dancing and the importance of working with others
It is often essential to dance in pairs and groups. Working with others requires a combination of ideas, to create an outstanding performance. Participants will need to include some or all of the following ideas:
- mirroring 鈥 this technique requires dancers to do the same travel, jump, shape or balance at exactly the same time
- leading and following 鈥 these movements require one dancer to lead and the other partners to follow
- meeting, avoiding or passing by 鈥 these movements require dancers to travel towards each other and then move right or left to avoid and pass
- meeting and parting 鈥 these movements require dancers to meet, turn and travel away
- canon 鈥 this technique requires dancers to take it in turns to perform a movement that is then identically copied and performed by others
- unison 鈥 this technique requires dancers to move at the same time as each other
- contrasting 鈥 this technique requires dance partners to perform contrasting movements to each other