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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. Provide opportunities for interpretation of dance - Provide a classroom dance program that includes different styles of dance from a cultural and historical context
Popular historical dances that are often used today
Pirouette
Passe
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
2. High - medium - or low
Cultural dances
Level
Martha Graham and psychodrama
Renaissance (1400-1600)
3. 1. Originated with the Andalusian Gypsies in Spain 2. Forceful rhythms 3. Hand clapping 4. Rapid foot movements 5. Use of castanets 6. Colorful costumes
Flamenco dance
Modern dance
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Other theatrical production
4. Direction: forward - backward - up - down - sideways (horizontal or vertical) - diagonal - straight - circle - out - in - zigzag - or spiral
Grand jete
Elements of dance: Levels
Level
Social dance styles
5. Leader - follower - mirror - unison - or parting)
Renaissance (1400-1600)
Interactions between dancers
Kinds of Levels
Range (of movement)
6. Floor - elevated - or air patterns
Line
Pathway
Nonlocomotor
Martha Graham and psychodrama
7. A 'passing' position in which the foot passes by the knee of the supporting leg - When this position is held - as in pirouettes - with the foot of the working leg resting against the knee of the supporting leg - it is known as retire
Social dance
Adagio
Passe
Revolutionary aspects of early modern dance
8. Strong/Weak - Heavy/Light - Dynamic/Static - Flowing/Tense
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Egypt
Syncopation
Pathway
Degree of Energy
9. Even or uneven beat
Beat
Popular historical dances that are often used today
Dance
Level
10. Includes locomotor (moving from one place to another) and axial (contained movement around an axis of the body)
Modern dance
Body movement
Revolutionary aspects of early modern dance
Degree of Energy
11. Ethnic and cultural dance - Cultural dances - Religious or ceremonial dance - Folk Dance - Play and sing with movement - Maypole dance - Modern Dance - Theatrical dance - Social dance
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
Range
Modern dance
Styles of dance and movement
12. Countable patterns
Rhythm
Direction
Modern dance choreography
Current examples of folk dances in the 20th century
13. 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
18th and 19th Centuries
Movement materials
Degree of Energy
4 Elements of dance movements
14. Solo - duet - or ensemble
Lifts
Rhythm
Grand jete
Individual - group - or class
15. 1. Direction 2. Form and Shape 3. Level 4. Range 5. Pathway 6. Focus
Elements of dance: Levels
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
Kinds of Levels
16. High -- Medium -- Low - Might refer to a dancer's head
Level
Elements of dance
Nonlocomotor
Form and shape
17. Movement without previous planning
Martha Graham and psychodrama
Characteristics of folk dance
Improvisation
Elements of dance: Levels
18. Intense movement often depicting pain - fear - and love; dance forms 'sculptured' by human body positions; contraction and release of the torso - 'fall and recover'; angular gestures; schools and dance companies
Dance teaching - prep
Characteristics of folk dance
The 8 basic steps
Martha Graham and psychodrama
19. Developed in France (1500s) - and moved to Italy; this led to the development of court dancing in Europe (nobility in a palace setting); patronage of the Medicis; 'dancing masters'; steps were slow (adagio) and fast (allegro); lack of spontaneity (de
Ballet
Dallet evolution
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
Rhapsodic Rhythms
20. Ballet developed throughout Europe; this led to ___________ - expressive capacity of the body - pointe footwork and the heel - less shoe
Pathway
Nonlocomotor
Virtuoso dancing
Range (of movement)
21. Release of potential energy into kinetic energy
Force
Alignment
Tempo
Play and sing with movement
22. Rhythmic pattern produced when a deliberate pattern is upset - Rhythm produced when beats are displaced such that strong beats become weak and vice versa
Dance teaching - floor pattern
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
Syncopation
Rhythm
23. Feeling the dance movements of others in one's own muscles
Play and sing with movement
18th and 19th Centuries
Movement materials
Kinesthetic awareness
24. (Often traditional folk steps): two - step - paddle - grapevine - step - hop - chug - and spinning
Dance teaching - key words and counts
Arabesque
Combined locomotor
Social dance
25. Gaze - Floor - Away
Barre
Focus
Line
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
26. On the ball of the foot - or half toe
18th and 19th Centuries
Improvisation
Dance - pointe
Minuet
27. Music to accompany specific - technical ballet steps; a theatrical art form developed
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Social dance and mass culture
Movement materials
Dallet evolution
28. Ethno - cultural - kabuki - Russian - and Celtic dance
George Balanchine (director of the New York City Ballet) and modern American ballet
Arabesque
The 8 basic steps
Other theatrical production
29. In theatre chorus; also the festival of Dionysus
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
Dance teaching - floor pattern
George Balanchine (director of the New York City Ballet) and modern American ballet
Dance activities should begin with these
30. 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 - pointe
Interactions between dancers
Creative movement
Romantic Era
31. Speed: fast or slow
Dance activities should begin with these
Tempo
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Java
Elevation
32. Quality of Energy - Degree of Energy
Dance activities should begin with these
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
Level
Forc
33. Warm - up - skill building - expression via classroom dance activities
Square dancing and barn dancing
Promenade
Elements should be found in all dance instruction
Social dance
34. Another popular form of the flamenco that originated in Cuba and Latin America
Spotting
Focus
Rumba flamenco
Postmodern dance
35. Kabuki (traced to primitive rituals; it involves stomping - elaborate costumes - is male only - and is still current)
Modern dance choreography
Kinesthetic awareness
Minuet
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
36. The arrangement of head - shoulders - arms - torso - and legs while dancing
Pirouette
Elevation
Line
Direction
37. As in music - the opposite of allegro; a slower tempo - also a set of practice exercises in class consisting of extensions and balances
Revolutionary aspects of early modern dance
Late 20th Century
Adagio
Dance post -1960s
38. 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).
Rhythm
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
Dance teaching - floor pattern
Square dancing and barn dancing
39. 'To twirl or spin'; a turn on one foot that can be executed outward - away from the body - or inward - toward the body
Rhythm
Pirouette
Elements of dance: Force
Movement materials
40. 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
Passe
Dance teaching - floor pattern
Pas de deux
Maypole dance
41. Dancing on the toes
Improvisation
Kinds of Levels
Adagio
Pointe
42. 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
Play and sing with movement
The 8 basic steps
Dance activities should begin with these
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
43. Characteristics: circle form (rhythmic motion within a circle); use of imagery - Gender roles: war and hunting for men - seasons and planting for women; early accompaniment came from drums - harps - flutes - and chants
Movement materials
Dance - Prehistory to Beginning of Middle Ages (A.D. 400)
Improvisation
Rumba flamenco
44. Gaze - floor - or away
Dance teaching - key words and counts
Focus
Pointe
Dance activities should begin with these
45. 1. Rhythm 2. Tempo 3. Beat 4. Meter 5. Syncopation 6. Rhapsodic Rhythms
Elements of dance: Time
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
18th and 19th Centuries
46. Body position - Angular/Rounded - Twisted - Bent - Crooked - Symmetrical/Asymmetrical
Syncopation
Elements of dance: Levels
Passe
Form and Shape
47. The steps of a dance as put together for performance or the art of composing dances
Meter
Elements of dance: Force
Dance
Choreography
48. 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
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Java
Attitude
Promenade
Martha Graham and psychodrama
49. Raising the leg to a straightened position with the foot very high above the ground; the ability to lift and hold the leg in position of the ground
Extension
Level
Allegro
The 8 basic steps
50. Often carry important historical significance from ancient civilizations Examples: Chinese ribbon dance - Polish polonaise - India's Kathakali or Bharatanatyam dance - Clogging - traditionally from Wales - which involves double taps on both the heel
Cultural dances
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
Allegro
Pointe