Dance Elements & Body Awareness
📋 What it is
Dance is built from elements: BODY, ACTION, SPACE, TIME and ENERGY — the raw materials of every movement.
🗣️ Coach says
Every dance, in any style, is made from a few ELEMENTS: which BODY parts move, what ACTION they do (jump, turn, reach), where in SPACE (high/low, forward/back), the TIMING (fast/slow), and the ENERGY (sharp or smooth). Learn the elements and you can describe — and invent — any movement.
🧠 Memory hook
Elements of dance: Body · Action · Space · Time · Energy. The raw materials of any movement.
😂 Giggle
Why did the dancer bring a notebook to class?
To jot down some footnotes!
😲 Whoa!
The same five elements describe a ballet leap AND a hip-hop freeze — every dance style on earth is built from this one small toolkit.
✅ Quick check: Name three of the elements of dance.
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
Any three of: Body, Action, Space, Time, Energy.
These five elements are the building blocks of all movement.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Do one movement, then change just its ENERGY (sharp → smooth). Same action, new feel.