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CSET Domain 1 Performing Arts Dance
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dance
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Dance movement that is primary and nonfunctional - with an emphasis on body mastery for expressive and communicative purposes
Rhapsodic Rhythms
Creative movement
Focus
Interactions between dancers
2. 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
Maypole dance
Styles of dance and movement
Pathway
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
3. In this leap - the dancer turns halfway in midair to land facing the direction in which the movement started
Dance post -1960s
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Meter
Choreography
4. Whether the energy is: Sustained (smooth) - Suspended (light) - Swing (under - curve) - Sway (over - curve) - Collapsed (loose) - Percussive (sharp) - Vibrate (shudder)
Movement materials
Range
Creative movement
Quality of Energy
5. Social dance - which celebrated births - special events - and rites of passage; ritual dance - which maintained tradition - religious rituals (temple dances) - and hunting magic; and fertility dance - which marked the changing seasons (especially for
Lifts
Barre
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
Historical forms of dance
6. The arrangement of head - shoulders - arms - torso - and legs while dancing
Theatrical dance
Line
Interactions between dancers
Styles of dance and movement
7. Ethno - cultural - kabuki - Russian - and Celtic dance
Minuet
Other theatrical production
Characteristics of folk dance
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
8. Movement without previous planning
Improvisation
Other theatrical production
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Rome
Characteristics of folk dance
9. Floor - elevated - or air patterns
Improvisation
Dance - Prehistory to Beginning of Middle Ages (A.D. 400)
Extension
Pathway
10. Direction: forward - backward - up - down - sideways (horizontal or vertical) - diagonal - straight - circle - out - in - zigzag - or spiral
Grand jete
Elements of dance: Levels
Space
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
11. In theatre chorus; also the festival of Dionysus
Individual - group - or class
Square dancing and barn dancing
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
Maypole dance
12. Speed: fast or slow
Choreography
Tempo
Religious or ceremonial dance
Creative movement
13. 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
Quality of Energy
Focus
Play and sing with movement
Dance post -1960s
14. 1. Direction 2. Form and Shape 3. Level 4. Range 5. Pathway 6. Focus
Kinds of Levels
Popular historical dances that are often used today
Maypole dance
Meter
15. Kabuki (traced to primitive rituals; it involves stomping - elaborate costumes - is male only - and is still current)
Interactions between dancers
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
Early 20th Century Revolutionary aspects of Ballets Russes (Russia)
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
16. (Staying in one place 'on spot'): stretching - pushing - twisting - bending - kicking - sinking - or curling
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
Nonlocomotor
Choreography
Line
17. 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
Minuet
18th and 19th Centuries
Elements of dance: Force
Romantic Era
18. Rhythmic pattern produced when a deliberate pattern is upset - Rhythm produced when beats are displaced such that strong beats become weak and vice versa
Level
Syncopation
Line
Adagio
19. Wide/Narrow - Big/Little
Direction
Pointe
Beat
Range (of movement)
20. Born in the 20th century as a result of dancers resisting the rigid structure of classical ballet dance
Barre
Modern dance
Alignment
Dance - Prehistory to Beginning of Middle Ages (A.D. 400)
21. Growth of contemporary dance - post - modernism in the 1960s; movement toward simplicity and a less sophisticated technique; 'No' manifesto - a frequent rejection of costumes and stories
Focus
Rhapsodic Rhythms
Elements should be found in all dance instruction
Late 20th Century
22. 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
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
Postmodern dance
Elements of dance: Force
Movements involved in the space element of dance
23. Release of potential energy into kinetic energy
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Java
Meter
Force
Native Americans
24. Warm - up exercises and Body awareness exercises
Interactions between dancers
Grand jete
Dance activities should begin with these
Modern dance
25. A part of pas de deux in which one dancer is lifted off the ground by another
Individual - group - or class
Degree of Energy
Lifts
Minuet
26. 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 - variety - exposure
Virtuoso dancing
Martha Graham and psychodrama
Rhythm
27. 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
Social dance styles
Kinesthetic awareness
Square dancing and barn dancing
28. Leader - follower - mirror - unison - or parting)
Interactions between dancers
Well - known musical productions
Form and shape
Classical
29. Rock 'n' roll; MTV; hip - hop; ballroom dancing (tango)
Grand jete
Pirouette
Social dance and mass culture
Form and Shape
30. Formalized hand movements (e.g. - Hindu dance - the oldest world dance)
Attitude
Cultural dances
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Indi
Modern dance
31. Immediate area surrounding the body; the area in which bodies can move at all levels
Focus
Space
Social dance
Combined locomotor
32. From the musical term - this refers to quick or lively movements
Dance post -1960s
Form and shape
Degree of Energy
Allegro
33. A pose in which the working leg is extended with a straight knee directly behind the body (both the height of the leg and the position of the arms are variable)
Arabesque
Barre
Force
18th and 19th Centuries
34. Have expressed mourning the spirit in dance movement. They have also used dance as a ritual to prepare for battles and to celebrate joyful occasions.
Renaissance (1400-1600)
Cultural dances
Tempo
Native Americans
35. 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
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
Rhapsodic Rhythms
Dance - Prehistory to Beginning of Middle Ages (A.D. 400)
Modern dance choreography
36. Strong/Weak - Heavy/Light - Dynamic/Static - Flowing/Tense
Degree of Energy
Dance teaching - prep
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
Dance activities should begin with these
37. Solo - duet - or ensemble
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Rome
Individual - group - or class
Rhythm
Elements of dance: Force
38. The essence of an idea applied to the art of movement
Abstraction
Range (of movement)
Martha Graham and psychodrama
Social dance
39. Gaze - floor - or away
Characteristics of folk dance
Dance post -1960s
Other theatrical production
Focus
40. Feeling the dance movements of others in one's own muscles
Beat
Movements involved in the space element of dance
Social dance and mass culture
Kinesthetic awareness
41. Countable patterns
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
Rhythm
Elevation
Adagio
42. Non - metric rhythms e.g. breath - water - or wind
Choreography
Rhapsodic Rhythms
Dance teaching - prep
Revolutionary aspects of early modern dance
43. 'To twirl or spin'; a turn on one foot that can be executed outward - away from the body - or inward - toward the body
Pirouette
Space
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Virtuoso dancing
44. (Often traditional folk steps): two - step - paddle - grapevine - step - hop - chug - and spinning
Rhythm
Combined locomotor
Direction
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
45. More eclectic; ballet and ethnic used in the same performance; all - male groups; intense theatrical effects in lighting - costume - and sets
Range (of movement)
Virtuoso dancing
Dance post -1960s
Level
46. A form of cultural dance - originated from medieval times when townspeople danced to celebrate - e.g. Medieval 'carolers'
18th and 19th Centuries
Folk dance
Ballet
Classical
47. Quality of Energy - Degree of Energy
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
Body movement
Forc
Movements involved in the space element of dance
48. Variations on folk dances are found in dance forms of today - including...
Play and sing with movement
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Rome
Square dancing and barn dancing
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Egypt
49. 1. Space 2. Time 3. Levels (dynamics) 4. Force (energy)
Adagio
Dance
4 Elements of dance movements
Rhapsodic Rhythms
50. Pavane - Galliard (from the Renaissance period) - The minuet - Charleston - Twist - Disco - Hip - hop - Lambada
Focus
Movement materials
Forc
Popular historical dances that are often used today