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Timing Review
Answer each question below.
- What is the name of the steady underlying pulse in music?
Answer: beat - What is it called when dancers take cues from each other to start the next phrase?
Answer: Event-sequence - What do dancers do when they actively use their body to create strong movement or gesture?
Answer: accent - Which term describes a dance that may be assigned a time of 30 seconds in which all the choreographed movement must fit?
Answer: clock time - What is it called when dancers perform movement without using music, relying on cues from one another?
Answer: free rhythm - Which term describes how fast or slow the dance movements are?
Answer: tempo - What does it mean when dancers hold a group shape and then spontaneously move out of it based on the impulse or feeling of the group?
Answer: timing relationships - When dances are performed to music with a steady beat, they are performed in what kind of time?
Answer: metered time
