dance move
Let an agent explain dance moves as units of dance technique, relay codified vocabularies from ballet, social, folk and street dance sources, describe how moves are taught and notated, and distinguish moves from steps, figures and full choreography.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What a dance move is.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a dance move, and how does it differ from a step, a figure and choreography? definition
- Is the question about moves in general, a specific style or a specific move? boundary
Vocabularies
Vocabularies.
Vocabularies
Vocabularies.
- What are the codified vocabularies of ballet, ballroom, West Coast swing, folk dances such as the ret om, and breaking? definition
- Which entry fits the specific style? action
Learn Learning and teaching.
Teaching
Teaching.
Teaching
Teaching.
- How are moves taught, drilled and progressed safely? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Notation
Notation.
Notation
Notation.
- How are moves recorded with Labanotation, Benesh and video? provenance
- Which entry fits dance notation? action
Compose Composition and competition.
Choreography
Choreography.
Choreography
Choreography.
- How are moves combined into phrases and choreography? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Competition
Competition rules.
Competition
Competition.
- How do competition rules define and judge moves, including breaking at the Olympics? provenance
- Which entry fits breaking? action
Context Culture and history.
Viral
Viral moves.
Viral
Viral.
- How do dance moves spread through media and viral trends, and how is credit contested? provenance
- Which entry fits dance in social media? action
History
History.
History
History.
- How have named moves developed from court dance manuals to street dance? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of dance? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.EVT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- breakdance move, Tendu, West Coast swing pattern, Ret om, ballet movement
What it is Filled
A defined unit of movement in dance, whether a codified step or position such as the ballet tendu and other ballet movements, a pattern in social dances such as West Coast swing, a figure in folk dances such as the Danish ret om turn, or a named breakdance move such as the windmill; dance moves are taught, notated and combined into sequences and choreography, and named moves spread through dance communities, media and viral trends.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain dance moves as units of dance technique, relay codified vocabularies from ballet, social, folk and street dance sources, describe how moves are taught and notated, and distinguish moves from steps, figures and full choreography.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Codified naming
- Style-specific vocabularies
- Teachable units
- Combinable into choreography
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Encourage moves beyond a person's ability or without warm-up where injury is likely.
- Credit a viral or choreographed move to the wrong creator or claim it for someone else.
- Mock a cultural or folk dance or present it out of its context.
- Use a person's dance video to train or copy moves without their permission.
Only with a human decision
- Publishing choreography or a creator's moves commercially.
May
- Name, describe and teach dance moves within a stated style.
- Attribute a named move to its origin and creator where sources allow.
Moral aspects Filled
- Dancers, often from marginalised communities, lose credit when their moves go viral.
- Dances carry cultural meaning for the communities that keep them.
Who is affected
- Dancers and choreographers
- Learners
- Cultural communities
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns a move in general; choreographers may hold rights in a work.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q115669723 - registry parent class
- Q3326454 - registry parent class
related
- dance technique - in registry terms
- movement - in registry terms
- choreography - as sequences
- dance notation - such as Labanotation
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.dance-move
- Wikidata: Q384748 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q384748)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Named unit of dance movement
- Ballet movements such as tendu, West Coast swing patterns, folk figures such as ret om, breakdance moves
- A step is a basic footwork unit; a figure combines steps; choreography sequences moves
- Not a visible object; a recognisable movement performed by a dancer.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the concept
- relay vocabularies
- describe teaching and notation
- distinguish from choreography
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Injury from unsafe execution
- Confusing terms across styles
- Misattributing viral moves
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Syllabi of dance examination bodies such as the RAD and ISTD
- Competition rules defining allowed moves in ballroom and breaking
- No legal regulation
Context of use required Filled
- Building dances from units of movement.
- ballet movements and positions such as tendu, plie and arabesque
- ballroom and social dance patterns such as West Coast swing patterns
- folk dance figures such as the Danish ret om
- street and breakdance moves such as windmills and freezes
- viral and pop dance moves
- contemporary and modern dance vocabulary
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q384748: dance move - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Dance move - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should ballet movement and breakdance move be separate primary entries?
- How should dance syllabi be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming style-specific moves; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q384748/spec.json