MTEL Dance Test Breakdown

Dance Skills and Concepts has three subareas with a total of 18 to 20 questions.

Modern Dance and Ballet: fundamental skills, concepts and terminology, axial and locomotor movement, relationship of space, time and energy, body movements, positions and alignment, and barre techniques and center-floor combinations.
Jazz, Tap, Folk, Social, Character and Ethnic Dance: terminology, types, techniques, characteristics, body alignment and dance patterns.
Nervous, Muscular and Skeletal Systems, Kinesiology and Biomechanics: influence of skeletal structure on dance movement, how the body systems interact, influence of dancer’s size and shape and how kinesiology and biomechanics help create illusions and affect technique.

Choreography has three subareas with a total of 17 to 19 questions.

Elements of Time, Space, Dynamics and Movement in dance: relationships, types and uses and general understanding of the concepts of movement.
Principles, Devices and Structures: factors and esthetics affecting decisions, staging for small and large groups, and individual dances that exhibit certain effects.
Improvisational Techniques: how improvisation relates to choreography, use in movement ,and affect on solo and ensemble dances.

Dance Production and History has three subareas with a total of 17 to 19 questions.

Costumes, Makeup, Stage Areas, Scenery, Lighting and Sound Equipment: functions, effects, principles, techniques, types, uses, characteristics and applications, warming-up, cuing and final details and responsibilities of each person involved in a dance production.
History of dance: individuals and their contributions and major developments, themes, purposes and characteristics.
Relationship of dance to other art forms and disciplines: elements found in all art forms, interdependence between speech, theater and dance and how they are used together and how dance skills are used in other areas.