Draw one slip of paper from the hat and find two other partners to make a trio.
Discuss feelings or emotions that are implied by the different movement qualities and list them on a chart (an example follows).Exchange roles until everyone has improvised movement phrases in each quality, quickly changing qualities as they are called out.Explore each quality with both nonlocomotor and locomotor movement. Call out in unexpected ways, slowly and quickly. Continue in one quality until another is called out randomly. The dancers will move in general space in the quality that is called out. One member of the audience will call out a dynamic quality. Half will dance, half will be the audience. In this excerpt, Alonzo King works with dancer Amy Earnest to create slow, sustained movement for a section of Dreamer. Sample Locomotor and Nonlocomotor SequenceĮxample: Chapter 4, Lesson 3B: Sustained Movement How does the tempo alter with each quality? Which qualities can be performed with light energy? Which ones require strength? Discuss how the walk changes when a specific dynamic motivates the movement.
Using a simple walk, explore moving through space using the dynamic qualities (see list). Vibratory (begin a soft beating of the feet on the floor and allow the vibration to move up through the body like a volcano until it erupts out through the fingers) Suspended (rise to relevé on both feet and allow arms to follow find a point of balance, balance on one foot) Percussive (rise quickly and begin a rhythmic step-clap-stamp phrase) Sustained (melt gradually all the way to the floor until finishing in a stretched shape) Swinging (using legs, then arms, then whole body)Ĭollapsed (swing a leg up, then collapse the body over it repeat, alternating legs) In this example, watch King describe and demonstrate a percussive movement phrase and the dancers show percussiveness in their bodies. Suspended = stillness, balance, high pointĮxample: Chapter 4, Lesson 3A: Describing a QualityĪlonzo King wanted specific dynamic qualities expressed in movement while choreographing Dreamer.
Swinging = sway, to and fro, pendulum, undercurve Percussive = sudden, sharp, choppy, jagged Sustained = slow, smooth, continuous, even Specifically, in dance we identify six dynamic qualities: sustained, percussive, swinging, suspended, collapsed, and vibratory. The use of different gradations of energy to perform a movement is often described as adding dynamic quality to movement. The other dancers collapse and sink under him in curved shapes. Uri Sands, the Impulse, is suspended high above the ground after executing a strong percussive jump. This is an excerpt from Dance Composition Basics 2nd Edition With Web Resource by Pamela Anderson Sofras.
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