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CSET Domain 1 Performing Arts Dance
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Immediate area surrounding the body; the area in which bodies can move at all levels
Rhapsodic Rhythms
Focus
Space
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
2. From the musical term - this refers to quick or lively movements
Combined locomotor
Allegro
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
3. (Staying in one place 'on spot'): stretching - pushing - twisting - bending - kicking - sinking - or curling
Improvisation
Nonlocomotor
The 8 basic steps
Late 20th Century
4. Based upon the subjective interpretation of internalized feelings - emotions - and moods - Unlike formal ballet - this is often unstructured and makes deliberate use of gravity and body weight to enhance movement - It also encourages students to expr
Force
Dallet evolution
Choreography
Modern dance choreography
5. Gaze - floor - or away
Focus
Dance teaching - floor pattern
Creative movement
Level
6. Pavane - Galliard (from the Renaissance period) - The minuet - Charleston - Twist - Disco - Hip - hop - Lambada
Martha Graham and psychodrama
Popular historical dances that are often used today
Styles of dance and movement
Direction
7. Speed: fast or slow
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
Tempo
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
Dance teaching - floor pattern
8. Refers to dances in which socializing is the main focus; therefore - a dance partner is essential
Social dance
Arabesque
Force
Adagio
9. Type of creative dance involving specialized movement techniques; emphasis is on expression and communication
Passe
Space between dancers
Modern dance
Promenade
10. Formal dancing spread to the Continent; expansion of professional dancing masters; professional choreography at the Paris Opera (opera and dance); costuming; introduction of the waltz (1-2-3) rhythm; court dance
Social dance and mass culture
Beat
18th and 19th Centuries
Form and Shape
11. Rhythmic pattern produced when a deliberate pattern is upset - Rhythm produced when beats are displaced such that strong beats become weak and vice versa
Individual - group - or class
Force
Syncopation
Nonlocomotor
12. Dancing evolved from pageants and processions of the period
Dance teaching - floor pattern
Renaissance (1400-1600)
Elements of dance
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Java
13. A period from about 1820 to 1870 in which ballet was characterized primarily by supernatural subject matter - long white tutus - dancing on the toes - and theatrical innovations that permitted the dimming of the house lights for theatrical illusion
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
Pointe
Social dance and mass culture
Romantic Era
14. Dance movement that is primary and nonfunctional - with an emphasis on body mastery for expressive and communicative purposes
Creative movement
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Indi
Dance activities should begin with these
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
15. Rhythm: countable patterns - Tempo: fast or slow speed - Beat: even or uneven - Meter: 2/4 time - 3/4 time - etc.
Arabesque
Rumba flamenco
Allegro
Elements of dance: Time
16. Whether the energy is: Sustained (smooth) - Suspended (light) - Swing (under - curve) - Sway (over - curve) - Collapsed (loose) - Percussive (sharp) - Vibrate (shudder)
Forc
Dance activities should begin with these
Quality of Energy
Play and sing with movement
17. Primary school children love to play and sing with movement in the simple sing - along dances of London Bridge - Hokey Pokey - Ring Around the Rosie - The Farmer in the Dell - B.I.N.G.O. - Pop Goes the Weasel - and Skip to My Lou
Forc
Elements of dance: Force
Play and sing with movement
Meter
18. Must include these four factors: Dance movements must predate the 19th century - Dance is performed by peasants or royalty - The choreography is derived from tradition - There is no teacher
Attitude
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
Space
Dance activities should begin with these
19. Separate the dance into the steps. Begin by teaching the steps - describing and demonstrating each separately. Steps are done slowly at first - using counts - and then at the proper tempo - Teach one part of the basic step pattern at a time; when two
Dance teaching - prep
Adagio
George Balanchine (director of the New York City Ballet) and modern American ballet
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
20. Refers to the lexicon of dance as taught in the original academies - also used in reference to ballets as created during the Imperial Russian days - such as The Sleeping Beauty - The Nutcracker - and Swan Lake - also refers to a style of performing
Kinds of Levels
Classical
Movements involved in the space element of dance
Arabesque
21. Often danced on May Day in various European nations such as Germany and Sweden - taught in American schools today - The maypole is a tall pole decorated with floral garlands - flags - and streamers - Ribbons are attached to a pole - so that children
Pathway
The 8 basic steps
Maypole dance
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Rome
22. Wide - narrow - big - or little
Framework for dance activity instruction
Tempo
Well - known musical productions
Range
23. (Often traditional folk steps): two - step - paddle - grapevine - step - hop - chug - and spinning
Rhapsodic Rhythms
Combined locomotor
Creative movement
Form and Shape
24. Have the dancers walk through the floor pattern. Then combine the steps with the floor pattern - first without music - and then with music (remember that not all dances have a set floor pattern).
Dance teaching - floor pattern
Theatrical dance
Focus
Movements involved in the space element of dance
25. A leap from one leg to the other in which the working leg is kicked or thrown away from the body and into the air; the pose achieved in the air differs - a does the direction the leap takes
Range (of movement)
Grand jete
Historical forms of dance
Level
26. A round rail attached to the wall horizontally - about 3 1/2 feet above the floor - for dancers to hold during the first half of technique class; it is also used for stretching the legs by placing the feet or legs on it
Attitude
Nonlocomotor
Barre
Elements of dance: Time
27. Side - by - side - supported - far - or near)
Adagio
Tempo
Kinds of Levels
Space between dancers
28. Countable patterns
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
Elements of dance: Levels
Social dance and mass culture
Rhythm
29. Literally - 'a step for two'; this refers to a specific codified form that is choreographed in many classical ballets; this is also used to refer to any section of a dance performed by two dancers together
Pas de deux
Choreography
Modern dance
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
30. A line along which a person or part of a person moves - Patterns on/in the Floor - Elevated or Air
Elements of dance: Levels
Modern dance choreography
Pathway
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
31. Includes locomotor (moving from one place to another) and axial (contained movement around an axis of the body)
Postmodern dance
Alignment
The 8 basic steps
Body movement
32. Warm - up exercises and Body awareness exercises
Syncopation
Dance
Revolutionary aspects of early modern dance
Dance activities should begin with these
33. More eclectic; ballet and ethnic used in the same performance; all - male groups; intense theatrical effects in lighting - costume - and sets
Late 20th Century
Direction
Dance post -1960s
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
34. Sequences - motifs - and phrases developed as the choreographed dance
Form and shape
Movement materials
Pirouette
Syncopation
35. Broadway and Hollywood shows; a new style of moving with emphasis on speed and mobility; lean body types; importance of the female dancer
Combined locomotor
Framework for dance activity instruction
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
George Balanchine (director of the New York City Ballet) and modern American ballet
36. The Church attempted to restrict pagan dance - often associated with fertility - but folk dances evolved from earlier ritual dance (e.g. - Maypole dance; origins in primitive fertility rituals [dancing around a pole]; associated with spring)
Elements of dance: Levels
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
Beat
Dance post -1960s
37. The arrangement of head - shoulders - arms - torso - and legs while dancing
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) China
Classical
Direction
Line
38. A pose modeled after the statue of the winged Mercury by Giovanni Bologna in which the working leg is extended behind the body with the knee bent; it can also be held in front of the body
Rhapsodic rhythms
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
Attitude
39. Locomotor - Nonlocomotor - Combined Locomotor
4 Elements of dance movements
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
Historical forms of dance
Movements involved in the space element of dance
40. The ability to get up into the air and remain there long enough to perform various movements or poses
Other theatrical production
Lifts
Maypole dance
Elevation
41. High - medium - or low
Dallet evolution
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Rome
Force
Level
42. Music to accompany specific - technical ballet steps; a theatrical art form developed
The 8 basic steps
Dance
Dallet evolution
Postmodern dance
43. Provide opportunities for interpretation of dance - Provide a classroom dance program that includes different styles of dance from a cultural and historical context
Early 20th Century Revolutionary aspects of Ballets Russes (Russia)
Movements involved in the space element of dance
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
Line
44. Leader - follower - mirror - unison - or parting)
Social dance
Popular historical dances that are often used today
Interactions between dancers
Social dance and mass culture
45. Even or uneven beat
Pas de deux
Beat
Rumba flamenco
Pathway
46. Quality of energy: sustained (smooth) - suspended (light) - swing (under - curve) - sway (over - curve) - collapsed (loose) - percussive (sharp) - or vibrate (shudder) - Degree of energy: strong - weak - heavy - light - dynamic - static - flowing - o
Elements of dance
Folk dance
Meter
Elements of dance: Force
47. A form of cultural dance - originated from medieval times when townspeople danced to celebrate - e.g. Medieval 'carolers'
Social dance
Folk dance
Force
Level
48. Hip - hop - line dance - ballroom - waltz - foxtrot - tango - rumba - jive - and swing
Improvisation
Tempo
Social dance and mass culture
Social dance styles
49. A rhythmic pattern produced when a deliberate pattern is upset
Focus
Syncopation
Dance teaching - key words and counts
Romantic Era
50. Ballet developed throughout Europe; this led to ___________ - expressive capacity of the body - pointe footwork and the heel - less shoe
Nonlocomotor
Virtuoso dancing
Grand jete
Interactions between dancers