1. For every letter of the alphabet, come up with a word that you would use to describe this dance. What it as many times as you need.
A – Animating
B – Broadway
C - Calm
D – Dynamics
E – Energetic
F – Flexible
G – Graceful
H – Halcyon
I – Isolation
J – Joy
K – Kinesthetic memory
L – Levels
M – Musicality
N – Noiseless
O – Opening
P – Pattern
Q – Quintessence
R – Repetition
S – Swan
T – Teamwork
U – Uniform
V – Vibrating
W – Wavy
X – X-ray
Y – Yoga
Z – Zealous

2. Once you have a word for every letter of the alphabet, write a paragraph, using some of your words, to describe your overall impressions of how the choreographer used the elements of dance we covered in Unit 1
It looked as if the dancers from the short clip, “Closer” were imitating the movements of swans in the lake. I was confused about the identities of the dancers. The explanation next to the clip indicated that the dancers were Philip Glass, Benjamin Millepied, and Gillian Murphy. However, it looked as if the male solo dancer and male Pas de Deux dancer was the same person. The dancers used their hands and abdomen to give images of birds (I interpreted it that way). The movements were animating and vibrating. The dance seemed to have flexible dynamics of yoga. The dancers ran, galloped, bended, and twisted on the three levels of space. The speed of the dancer’s movement was steadily consistent, changing the tempo only when the music tempo changed. The two dancers initially had isolated spaces, but in the “Pas de Deux”, they combined their personal spaces to perform a coordinated sequence of movements. At the “Pas de Deux”, the dancers performed high-energy movements such as that of lifting the woman’s body up into the air. And my biggest impression of the performance was the graceful and calm way in which the dancers moved around the stage, which was more than big enough