Dance Assessment Inventory

• Purpose

• Ceremonial Popular/folk Art

• Professional Amateur

• Location

• Indoors Outdoors

• Formal Informal

• Artistic Elements

• Scenery: see Art Assessment
• Properties
• Costumes

• Lighting

• Music

• See Music Assessment
• Live or Recorded?

• Synchronized with dance?

• Number of Dancers

• Solo Duet Trio Quartet Quintet Sextet

7 to 12 More Than 12

• Ensemble Gestures

• Same Similar Different

• Simultaneous Consecutive

• Movement

• Are the dancers silent, rhythmic or melodic?
• Which body parts are in motion?
• Head Arms Torso Hips Legs Feet Hands
• How often are the feet on the ground?
• Are there acrobatic elements?
• Is pantomime involved?
• Are special feats of strength in evidence
• Is the movement smooth or jerky?
• How high is the energy level?
• Is there body contact? Lifting?

• Types of motion: parallel, similar, contrary,

oblique

• Structure

• How long is the dance?
• Is it sectional?
• Is it narrative or abstract?
• Is it tragic or comic?