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Question 1Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which choreographic device involves repeating a movement phrase with changes to its size, speed, or level?

  1. Unison
  2. Canon
  3. Retrograde
  4. Motif development Correct answer.

Explanation

Motif development takes a short core movement idea and varies it through changes such as size, speed, level, or quality, allowing a single idea to generate a longer section of choreography. Canon and retrograde are structuring devices applied to phrases rather than ways of transforming the phrase itself.

Question 2Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A dancer performs a phrase while a second dancer begins the same phrase four counts later. Which device is being used?

  1. Abstraction
  2. Canon Correct answer.
  3. Chance
  4. Mirroring

Explanation

A canon occurs when dancers perform identical movement material with staggered starting times, creating overlapping layers of the same phrase. The delay is the defining feature that separates canon from unison or mirroring.

Question 3Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which term describes the quality of movement relating to its weight, flow, and energy rather than its shape?

  1. Spatial design
  2. Pathway
  3. Formation
  4. Dynamics Correct answer.

Explanation

Dynamics describe how movement is performed, including its weight, flow, energy, and force, and they are communicated largely through the dancer's use of breath and muscular tension. Spatial terms such as pathway and formation describe where movement occurs rather than how it feels.

Question 4Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

In a group work, which production element is most directly responsible for defining the mood of a solo through changes in colour and intensity?

  1. Lighting Correct answer.
  2. Set
  3. Costume
  4. Sound

Explanation

Lighting shapes mood through colour, intensity, direction, and focus, and it can isolate a soloist or shift atmosphere within a phrase. Costume, set, and sound contribute to atmosphere but do not primarily operate through colour and intensity of illumination.

Question 5Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which structure organises a dance so that a main theme returns after contrasting sections?

  1. Rondo Correct answer.
  2. Collage
  3. Narrative
  4. Chance

Explanation

Rondo form alternates a recurring principal theme with contrasting episodes, so the main material returns repeatedly in a recognisable pattern. Narrative form follows a story line, and collage and chance organise material by juxtaposition or random procedure rather than by recurring theme.

Question 6Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A choreographer asks dancers to walk in a straight line from upstage left to downstage right. Which spatial element is being specified?

  1. Focus
  2. Shape
  3. Level
  4. Pathway Correct answer.

Explanation

A pathway is the route a dancer travels through space, and a straight diagonal line from one corner to another is a clear example. Level refers to height relative to the floor, shape describes the body's outline, and focus concerns where the dancer directs attention.

Question 7Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which action best demonstrates safe dance practice during a demanding rehearsal?

  1. Holding a deep stretch for several minutes before warming up
  2. Performing a thorough warm-up before high-intensity movement Correct answer.
  3. Skipping cool-downs when rehearsals run late
  4. Repeating a painful jump until it feels comfortable

Explanation

Safe dance practice requires a progressive warm-up that raises body temperature and prepares joints and muscles for demanding movement, reducing injury risk. Pain during a movement is a warning sign and should never be worked through, and cool-downs support recovery.

Question 8Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

When documenting a choreographic intent for assessment, which statement is most appropriate?

  1. The dance will be performed in black costumes with blue lighting.
  2. The dance explores the tension between connection and isolation, using weighted contact and sudden withdrawal to show shifting trust. Correct answer.
  3. The dance will be about friendship and will use six dancers.
  4. The dance uses lots of lifts and fast music because it looks exciting.

Explanation

A choreographic intent articulates the concept or theme together with the movement and production choices that will communicate it, linking meaning to specific decisions. Statements that list only resources, effects, or general subject labels lack the explanatory link between intention and realisation.

Question 9Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A choreographer wants a duet to communicate conflict while remaining physically safe. Which rehearsal strategy is most appropriate?

  1. Remove all contact so no risk exists
  2. Rehearse at full speed from the first attempt to build realism
  3. Agree on contact points and practise weight-sharing gradually with a spotter Correct answer.
  4. Increase the tempo before the movement is secure

Explanation

Negotiating contact points and building weight-sharing progressively, with supervision, allows the intended physical relationship to develop while managing risk. Full-speed repetition before security is established, or removing contact entirely, either increases danger or removes the choreographic intention.

Question 10Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A dancer must project focus to a single point in the audience during a stillness. Which choice best achieves this?

  1. Scanning the audience continuously to engage everyone
  2. Looking at the floor to appear thoughtful
  3. Closing the eyes to suggest inner reflection
  4. Settling the gaze on one point with committed facial intent Correct answer.

Explanation

Projection in stillness depends on committed, sustained focus, where the gaze and facial expression carry intention to the audience even without movement. Scanning diffuses the focus, while looking down or closing the eyes withdraws the dancer's connection.

Question 11Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A choreographer sets a phrase in which each dancer performs a different movement simultaneously. Which term best describes this texture?

  1. Contrast Correct answer.
  2. Unison
  3. Canon
  4. Mirroring

Explanation

Contrast in texture occurs when dancers perform differing movement material at the same time, creating visual variety and complexity. Unison and mirroring involve sameness between dancers, while canon involves the same material at staggered times.

Question 12Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which rehearsal approach best supports ensemble accuracy in a complex group section?

  1. Relying on memory of the first performance
  2. Using counts, video review, and peer feedback together Correct answer.
  3. Each dancer rehearses alone only
  4. Repeating the whole work without stopping

Explanation

Ensemble accuracy improves when dancers combine structured counting, recorded review, and specific peer feedback, because these give objective information about timing, spacing, and line. Rehearsing only alone or repeating without analysis limits the correction of errors.

Question 13Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A choreographer places three dancers upstage and one dancer downstage. Which compositional principle is most directly being manipulated?

  1. Symmetry of the formation
  2. Quality of the movement
  3. Tempo of the phrase
  4. Visual weight and balance Correct answer.

Explanation

Distributing unequal numbers of dancers across the stage creates unequal visual weight, which the choreographer balances through placement, spacing, and focus. Tempo and movement quality concern time and dynamics, not the distribution of bodies in space.

Question 14Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which choice best explains why a choreographer might use abstraction rather than literal gesture?

  1. To invite multiple interpretations through distilled movement imagery Correct answer.
  2. To reduce the number of dancers required
  3. To make the meaning immediately obvious to every viewer
  4. To shorten the duration of the work

Explanation

Abstraction distils source material into movement imagery that is open to interpretation, allowing audiences to bring their own associations to the work. Literal gesture tends to fix meaning, whereas abstraction deliberately multiplies possible readings.

Question 15Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A choreographer wants a transition that hides a change of formation. Which solution is most effective?

  1. Having dancers announce the change verbally
  2. Stopping the music while dancers walk to new positions
  3. Freezing all dancers until the new formation is set
  4. Using travelling movement phrases that resolve into the new formation Correct answer.

Explanation

Effective transitions are choreographed so that the change of formation arises from the movement itself, keeping the audience engaged and the flow continuous. Stopping action or breaking the performance frame draws attention to the mechanics of the change.

Question 16Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which statement best describes the role of a rehearsal director in a dance company?

  1. Maintaining the artistic standards and integrity of existing repertoire Correct answer.
  2. Composing the original musical score
  3. Managing ticket sales and front-of-house staff
  4. Designing the lighting plot for each venue

Explanation

A rehearsal director safeguards the artistic quality and stylistic integrity of repertoire by preparing casts, running rehearsals, and giving corrections that align with the choreographer's intentions. Technical, musical, and administrative roles sit with other specialists.

Question 17Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A costume is too restrictive across the shoulders for a phrase involving large arm swings. What is the most appropriate production response?

  1. Remove the section from the work entirely
  2. Adjust the costume design so the intended movement can be performed fully Correct answer.
  3. Change the choreography to small gestures for the whole work
  4. Instruct dancers to reduce the arm swing permanently

Explanation

Production elements should serve the choreographic intention, so the costume is modified to allow the movement to be performed as designed. Altering the choreography to accommodate a costume compromises the artistic intent rather than solving the production problem.

Question 18Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which pairing correctly matches a technical element with its primary function in performance?

  1. Costume design - controlling the stage's acoustic environment
  2. Set design - determining the tempo of the choreography
  3. Lighting design - shaping visibility, focus, and atmosphere Correct answer.
  4. Sound design - defining the physical shape of the set

Explanation

Lighting design controls visibility, focus, colour, and atmosphere, and it directs the audience's attention across the stage. Each production area has a distinct function, so sound, costume, and set cannot be assigned the roles listed in the other options.

Question 19Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A dance work uses a repeated phrase that becomes progressively slower and lower until it collapses to the floor. Which interpretation is best supported by the movement choices?

  1. The phrase suggests exhaustion or loss of control Correct answer.
  2. The phrase suggests celebration through upward extension
  3. The phrase suggests stillness and meditation
  4. The phrase suggests increasing energy and rising momentum

Explanation

Progressive slowing, lowering, and collapse are movement choices that conventionally communicate diminishing energy, exhaustion, or loss of control. Reading evidence from the movement itself, rather than imposing a meaning, is the basis of analysis.

Question 20Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which is the most appropriate way for a choreographer to give a dancer a correction during rehearsal?

  1. Describe the intended outcome and offer a specific adjustment to try Correct answer.
  2. Announce the error in front of the whole company without context
  3. Repeat the correction loudly until the dancer stops making errors
  4. Ignore the error to protect the dancer's confidence

Explanation

Effective corrections are specific, constructive, and framed around the intended outcome so the dancer can make a concrete adjustment. Public criticism without context or repeated loud correction damages trust, and ignoring errors prevents improvement.

Question 21Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A choreographer wants a section to feel unpredictable and non-linear. Which device would most directly support this intention?

  1. Strict symmetry and repeated unison
  2. Sustained slow movement with a single focus
  3. Juxtaposing unrelated phrases with abrupt transitions Correct answer.
  4. Building a gradual crescendo to a climax

Explanation

Juxtaposing unrelated material with abrupt transitions disrupts expectation and produces a fragmented, non-linear structure. Symmetry, unison, and gradual crescendo all build coherence and predictability, which is the opposite of the stated intention.

Question 22Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A dancer's movement looks technically correct but lacks impact. Which analysis best identifies the likely cause?

  1. The dancer is using too many formations
  2. The dancer is using insufficient dynamic contrast and unclear focus Correct answer.
  3. The dancer is wearing the wrong costume colour
  4. The dancer is dancing too far downstage

Explanation

Impact in performance depends on dynamic contrast, clarity of intention, and committed focus, so technically accurate movement without these qualities reads as flat. Staging position, formation count, and costume colour do not directly determine the expressive impact of the movement itself.

Question 23Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A choreographer uses a chance procedure to order eight movement phrases. Which statement best describes the effect on the work's structure?

  1. The structure is generated by a random method and may lack causal progression Correct answer.
  2. The structure will always repeat the first phrase
  3. The structure is guaranteed to produce a clear climax
  4. The structure is determined by the choreographer's emotional narrative

Explanation

Chance procedures generate order through random means, so the resulting sequence may lack causal or narrative progression and must be shaped or framed by the choreographer's other decisions. Chance does not guarantee climax, repetition, or emotional narrative.

Question 24Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A group work uses two dancers in tight contact while a third performs the same phrase alone at a distance. Which reading is best supported?

  1. The staging emphasises uniformity of the ensemble
  2. The staging emphasises the musical tempo
  3. The staging emphasises the lighting design over the movement
  4. The staging emphasises connection contrasted with isolation Correct answer.

Explanation

Placing a connected pair against a solitary dancer performing the same material creates a spatial and relational contrast that supports themes of connection and isolation. The identical phrase links the dancers conceptually while the staging separates them physically.

Question 25Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which decision best demonstrates that production elements are being integrated with choreographic intent rather than added afterwards?

  1. Choosing a popular song first and then making the dance fit it
  2. Designing the set and lighting around the work's central movement motif and spatial plan Correct answer.
  3. Adding smoke effects wherever the stage looks empty
  4. Selecting costumes from available stock just before the performance

Explanation

Integration occurs when production choices are derived from the work's movement ideas and spatial design, so that all elements communicate the same intention. Selecting effects to fill space or choosing resources late treats production as decoration rather than meaning.

Question 26Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which term describes the physical area a dancer occupies and moves through on stage?

  1. Kinesphere Correct answer.
  2. Level
  3. Stage space
  4. Formation

Explanation

The kinesphere is the personal bubble of space surrounding a dancer's body, reachable by extended limbs without travelling. It is distinct from the wider stage space and from organisational concepts such as level or formation, which describe how dancers arrange themselves rather than the body's immediate spatial reach.

Question 27Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A dancer performs a phrase with clear shapes but the movement stops abruptly at the end of every count. Which performance quality element most needs development?

  1. Flow Correct answer.
  2. Stamina
  3. Alignment
  4. Focus

Explanation

Flow concerns how movement is sustained, released or interrupted between actions. A phrase that halts sharply at each count suggests the dancer is stopping the momentum rather than carrying it through, so developing continuity of flow is the priority. Alignment, focus and stamina address posture, eyeline and endurance rather than the continuity of movement.

Question 28Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which element of dance production is primarily responsible for defining the shape and colour of the space around the dancers?

  1. Sound design
  2. Costume design
  3. Lighting design Correct answer.
  4. Stage management

Explanation

Lighting design shapes the visible space through intensity, colour, direction and areas of light and shadow, which directly affect how the stage reads. Sound, costume and stage management contribute to atmosphere and organisation but do not sculpt the spatial field in the same way.

Question 29Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A choreographer wants a solo to read as calm and grounded. Which movement choice best supports this intent?

  1. Sharp isolated gestures performed at chest height
  2. Rapid directional changes on the spot
  3. Frequent jumps with high extensions
  4. Sustained low-level movement with weighted transitions Correct answer.

Explanation

Calm, grounded qualities are produced by sustained timing, low levels and weight that sinks into the floor rather than lifts away from it. Weighted transitions reinforce the sense of gravity and control. Jumping, rapid changes and sharp isolation all create energy and lift that work against a grounded reading.

Question 30Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which term describes the planned path a dancer travels across the stage during a phrase?

  1. Body base
  2. Motif
  3. Floor pattern Correct answer.
  4. Gesture

Explanation

Floor pattern, sometimes called spatial pathway, describes the route a dancer traces across the stage, such as a diagonal, circle or zigzag. Body base refers to the supporting points of the body, gesture refers to non-locomotor movement, and a motif is a recurring movement idea rather than a travel path.

Question 31Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

During a group section, a dancer repeatedly arrives late on a shared accent. Which is the most useful first step for the dancer?

  1. Increase the size of the movement to compensate
  2. Listen to the accompaniment and mark the counts aloud while rehearsing Correct answer.
  3. Change the choreography to remove the accent
  4. Ask to be moved to the back of the formation

Explanation

Lateness on a shared accent usually reflects unclear internal counting or a weak connection to the accompaniment. Marking counts aloud while rehearsing builds an independent sense of the pulse and the placement of the accent. Enlarging the movement, altering choreography or hiding the dancer does not address the underlying timing problem.

Question 32Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which safe practice should dancers follow before attempting a demanding jump sequence?

  1. Practise only the final landing position
  2. Stretch cold muscles to maximum length
  3. Perform a warm-up that raises body temperature and mobilises joints Correct answer.
  4. Begin the sequence at full height immediately

Explanation

A warm-up that raises core temperature and mobilises joints prepares muscles and connective tissue for load and reduces injury risk. Static stretching of cold muscles, immediate maximal jumping and practising only the landing omit the progressive preparation that demanding jumps require.

Question 33Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which element of a dance work communicates the underlying idea or message to the audience?

  1. Theme Correct answer.
  2. Duration
  3. Costume
  4. Technique

Explanation

The theme is the underlying idea, concept or message that the choreography explores and communicates. Technique is the standard of physical execution, costume is a production element, and duration is a structural measure of length, so none of these carries the work's central meaning.

Question 34Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A choreographer sets a phrase that begins with a single gesture and then grows as each dancer joins in, one count apart. Which device is being used?

  1. Chance
  2. Retrograde
  3. Canon Correct answer.
  4. Unison

Explanation

A canon occurs when dancers perform the same material with staggered entries, so the phrase overlaps in time. Unison requires simultaneous performance, retrograde reverses the order of movement, and chance refers to a randomising compositional procedure, so none of these matches staggered entry.

Question 35Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A dancer's torso collapses and the ribs flare whenever a high leg extension is performed. Which correction is most appropriate?

  1. Practise the extension while maintaining core support and a lifted centre Correct answer.
  2. Add more repetitions of the extension at full speed
  3. Reduce rehearsal frequency until the shape improves
  4. Focus on pointing the feet more strongly

Explanation

Collapsing through the torso with flared ribs during high extensions usually indicates insufficient core support and loss of central control. Practising the extension while maintaining core engagement and a lifted centre retrains the alignment. Reducing rehearsal, adding speed or adjusting the feet does not address the underlying postural cause.

Question 36Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which structural choice would most clearly create a sense of development across a group work?

  1. Repeating the opening phrase unchanged at the end
  2. Using a single dynamic throughout
  3. Returning to the opening motif after a contrasting middle section Correct answer.
  4. Performing every section in unison

Explanation

An A-B-A structure allows contrast to be introduced and then resolved by a return that can be varied, creating a sense of journey and development. Repeating the opening unchanged, using constant unison or maintaining one dynamic removes contrast and therefore limits perceived development.

Question 37Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A dancer must perform a slow adagio phrase while maintaining an expressive upper body. Which training focus best supports this requirement?

  1. Sustained control training with breath support Correct answer.
  2. Rehearsing only at performance tempo without breaks
  3. Plyometric conditioning for explosive power
  4. Sprint intervals to build speed

Explanation

Slow, controlled phrases with expressive upper-body work require sustained muscular control, balance and breath support. Plyometrics and sprint work build power and speed rather than sustained control, and rehearsing only at full tempo without breaks develops neither endurance nor the fine control the phrase demands.

Question 38Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which statement best explains how a choreographer uses a motif?

  1. A motif is a costume change between sections
  2. A motif is a recurring movement idea that can be developed and manipulated Correct answer.
  3. A motif is a fixed sequence that must never be altered
  4. A motif is a lighting cue marking the start of a phrase

Explanation

A motif is a short, recognisable movement idea that provides unity while allowing variation through changes of size, level, direction, timing or quality. Treating it as unalterable, or confusing it with production elements such as costume or lighting, misrepresents its compositional function.

Question 39Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A choreographer wants to highlight a single dancer's solo within a large ensemble work. Which production choice most directly achieves this?

  1. Using a tight special on the soloist while dimming the surrounding area Correct answer.
  2. Adding more dancers to the surrounding space
  3. Flooding the whole stage with even white light
  4. Increasing the tempo of the accompaniment

Explanation

A tight special isolates the soloist visually while dimming the surrounding area, drawing the audience's attention to that dancer. Even flooding distributes attention across the stage, adding dancers increases visual competition, and tempo changes affect energy rather than visual focus.

Question 40Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Two dancers perform identical material, but one performs it with a soft, sustained quality and the other with a sharp, percussive quality. Which element of dance are they varying?

  1. Dynamics Correct answer.
  2. Form
  3. Space
  4. Duration

Explanation

Dynamics describe how movement is performed in terms of force, energy and quality, such as sustained or percussive. Space concerns where movement occurs, form concerns the shape and structure of the movement, and duration concerns its length in time, so only dynamics accounts for the difference described.

Question 41Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A choreographer wants to show two characters gradually moving from distrust to cooperation. Which choreographic decision best communicates this progression?

  1. Beginning with dancers facing away and ending with supported weight-sharing Correct answer.
  2. Maintaining a constant distance between the dancers throughout
  3. Performing the entire duet in unison
  4. Using identical costumes for both dancers

Explanation

Physical distance, orientation and contact are powerful carriers of relationship on stage. Moving from facing away to supported weight-sharing traces a shift from separation to trust and cooperation. Constant distance, uniform unison and identical costumes all reduce the sense of change between the two characters.

Question 42Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which approach best ensures that a group formation change reads clearly to an audience?

  1. Rehearsing only the final formation
  2. Changing formations only during blackouts
  3. Assuming dancers will find their places during performance
  4. Rehearsing the pathways between formations as carefully as the shapes themselves Correct answer.

Explanation

Audiences read transitions as much as set shapes, so the pathways between formations must be rehearsed with the same precision as the destinations. Relying on improvisation, hiding changes in blackouts or rehearsing only the final shape leaves the transitions unclear and risks collisions.

Question 43Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A dancer is consistently early on an off-beat accent. Which rehearsal strategy most directly corrects this?

  1. Increasing the size of the accent
  2. Avoiding the accompaniment during rehearsal
  3. Rehearsing with the pulse counted aloud and marking the accent against it Correct answer.
  4. Rehearsing the phrase faster than performance tempo

Explanation

Early execution of an off-beat accent usually indicates misjudgement of where the accent sits against the underlying pulse. Counting the pulse aloud while marking the accent builds an accurate internal map of the rhythm. Faster rehearsal, avoiding the accompaniment or enlarging the movement does not correct the placement.

Question 44Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

Which statement best describes the function of a rehearsal plan for a new work?

  1. It replaces the choreographer's artistic decisions
  2. It records ticket sales for the season
  3. It sequences rehearsal goals and time allocation towards performance readiness Correct answer.
  4. It lists the running order of the whole program

Explanation

A rehearsal plan sequences goals across available sessions and allocates time to learning, refining, cleaning and running material so the company reaches performance readiness. It does not record sales, substitute for artistic decisions, or set the program running order, which belongs to production scheduling.

Question 45Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A choreographer wants to generate fresh movement material without relying on habitual patterns. Which approach most directly achieves this?

  1. Selecting movement from an existing work
  2. Setting a task constraint that forces unfamiliar movement choices Correct answer.
  3. Using only movements the dancers already perform well
  4. Repeating the choreographer's signature phrase

Explanation

Task-based constraints, such as limiting body parts, levels or timing, block habitual solutions and force the dancers to invent unfamiliar movement. Repeating signature material, borrowing from existing works or relying on well-practised movement all reinforce established patterns rather than disrupting them.

Question 46Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A dance work ends with the ensemble standing motionless in a tight cluster while the music continues for several seconds. What is the most likely intended effect of this choice?

  1. To indicate the accompaniment was poorly edited
  2. To signal that the dancers have lost their places
  3. To create tension and focus attention on stillness as a final statement Correct answer.
  4. To allow the technicians to reset the lighting

Explanation

Sustained stillness after the action ends holds the audience in a moment of tension and directs attention to the image itself, allowing the work to resonate. Reading it as a staging error, a technical necessity or a musical fault ignores the deliberate compositional use of stillness and duration.

Question 47Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A choreographer notices that a group section looks busy but the main idea is unclear. Which analysis best identifies the likely cause?

  1. The accompaniment is too quiet
  2. The costumes are too similar in colour
  3. The dancers lack sufficient technical training
  4. Too many simultaneous movement ideas compete without hierarchy Correct answer.

Explanation

When a section reads as busy, the usual cause is competing simultaneous material without a clear hierarchy of focus, so the audience cannot identify what matters most. Technical training, sound level and costume colour can affect impact but do not explain a lack of clarity in the choreographic idea itself.

Question 48Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A duet and a solo occur in different parts of the stage at the same time, and the audience is unsure where to look. Which compositional solution best restores clarity?

  1. Adding a third simultaneous section
  2. Establishing a clear hierarchy of focus through staging, level or lighting Correct answer.
  3. Increasing the tempo of both sections
  4. Removing the accompaniment entirely

Explanation

Simultaneous action requires a clear hierarchy so the audience knows where to direct attention, achieved through staging positions, contrasting levels, or lighting that privileges one area. Raising tempo or adding further simultaneous material increases competition, and removing the accompaniment does not resolve where the eye should travel.

Question 49Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A choreographer uses a structured improvisation in which dancers must respond to each other's weight without a set sequence. Which statement best describes the choreographic implication?

  1. The section cannot be assessed because it varies between performances
  2. The dancers will be unable to perform safely without a fixed sequence
  3. The emergent material requires later selection and refinement to become repeatable Correct answer.
  4. The work will lack any consistent style because nothing is set

Explanation

Structured improvisation generates material through live decision-making, but performance requires that selected moments be identified, refined and made repeatable. It does not follow that style is absent, that safety is impossible with clear parameters, or that the work cannot be assessed, since the task and its realisation can both be evaluated.

Question 50Making (choreography, performance, and production elements)

A work uses a repeated phrase that each time loses one dancer until a single performer remains. Which structural device is being used?

  1. Subtraction Correct answer.
  2. Accumulation
  3. Inversion
  4. Augmentation

Explanation

Subtraction removes elements progressively, here one dancer at a time, so the phrase diminishes towards a solo. Accumulation adds elements, augmentation expands material in time, and inversion reverses a movement's direction or shape, so none of these describes a progressive reduction.