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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. Movement without previous planning
Improvisation
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) China
Dance
Modern dance choreography
2. Rhythm: countable patterns - Tempo: fast or slow speed - Beat: even or uneven - Meter: 2/4 time - 3/4 time - etc.
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
Elements of dance: Time
Social dance and mass culture
Choreography
3. Locomotor - Nonlocomotor - Combined Locomotor
Body movement
Elevation
Dance activities should begin with these
Movements involved in the space element of dance
4. Formalized hand movements (e.g. - Hindu dance - the oldest world dance)
Pas de deux
Elements of dance
Religious or ceremonial dance
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Indi
5. Polka - square dances - historic dances
Dance teaching - floor pattern
Current examples of folk dances in the 20th century
Attitude
Popular historical dances that are often used today
6. Non - metric rhythms e.g. breath - water - or wind
Rhapsodic Rhythms
Late 20th Century
Direction
Styles of dance and movement
7. Kabuki (traced to primitive rituals; it involves stomping - elaborate costumes - is male only - and is still current)
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
Dance - Prehistory to Beginning of Middle Ages (A.D. 400)
Early 20th Century Revolutionary aspects of Ballets Russes (Russia)
8. On the ball of the foot - or half toe
Popular historical dances that are often used today
Space between dancers
Dance - pointe
Modern dance choreography
9. Ballet - jazz - and tap
4 Elements of dance movements
Abstraction
Level
Well - known musical productions
10. Determine appropriate age - related expectations for a safe - enjoyable classroom activity
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
Framework for dance activity instruction
Quality of Energy
11. A part of pas de deux in which one dancer is lifted off the ground by another
Lifts
Late 20th Century
Syncopation
Movements involved in the space element of dance
12. A rhythmic pattern produced when a deliberate pattern is upset
Syncopation
Body movement
Extension
George Balanchine (director of the New York City Ballet) and modern American ballet
13. In this leap - the dancer turns halfway in midair to land facing the direction in which the movement started
Renaissance (1400-1600)
4 Elements of dance movements
Line
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
14. Number of beats grouped together e.g. 3/4 or 2/4 or 6/8
Creative movement
Promenade
Meter
Theatrical dance
15. Sequences - motifs - and phrases developed as the choreographed dance
Movement materials
Kinesthetic awareness
Individual - group - or class
Lifts
16. 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
Interactions between dancers
Folk dance
Play and sing with movement
Elements of dance: Force
17. Ballet developed throughout Europe; this led to ___________ - expressive capacity of the body - pointe footwork and the heel - less shoe
Virtuoso dancing
Elevation
Arabesque
Postmodern dance
18. Even or uneven beat
Modern dance choreography
Body movement
Promenade
Beat
19. 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
Rhapsodic rhythms
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
20. A form of cultural dance - originated from medieval times when townspeople danced to celebrate - e.g. Medieval 'carolers'
Religious or ceremonial dance
Folk dance
Pathway
Form and shape
21. Walking - running - leaping - jumping - hopping - galloping - skipping - and sliding (Chasse)
Modern dance
The 8 basic steps
Creative movement
Religious or ceremonial dance
22. Focusing the eyes on one point in the distance in order to keep balance while turning
Revolutionary aspects of early modern dance
Spotting
Rumba flamenco
Renaissance (1400-1600)
23. (Staying in one place 'on spot'): stretching - pushing - twisting - bending - kicking - sinking - or curling
Abstraction
Cultural dances
Nonlocomotor
Space
24. Side - by - side - supported - far - or near)
Pointe
Space between dancers
Lifts
Dance teaching - prep
25. An adagio movement in which the dancer pivots completely around on one foot while maintaining a pose with the working leg
Promenade
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
Creative movement
Individual - group - or class
26. Countable patterns
Direction
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
Rhythm
Elements of dance
27. Angular - rounded - twisted - bent - crooked - symmetrical - or asymmetrical
Elevation
Quality of Energy
Choreography
Form and shape
28. 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
Pointe
Well - known musical productions
Extension
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
29. 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
Elements of dance: Time
Body movement
Beat
Maypole dance
30. 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
Form and shape
Grand jete
Elements of dance: Time
Degree of Energy
31. 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
Virtuoso dancing
Classical
18th and 19th Centuries
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
32. Space - Time - Levels (dynamics)- Force (energy) - Locomotor (traveling through space)
Space
Well - known musical productions
Elements of dance
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
33. To cue the steps and directional changes - and to alert students (e.g. - 'ready'); this helps students keep the main rhythmic pattern and encourages them to gain a sense of the whole
Dance
Syncopation
Creative movement
Dance teaching - key words and counts
34. The ability to get up into the air and remain there long enough to perform various movements or poses
Range (of movement)
Elevation
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Egypt
Social dance styles
35. 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
Barre
Arabesque
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Indi
Pathway
36. Rhythmic pattern produced when a deliberate pattern is upset - Rhythm produced when beats are displaced such that strong beats become weak and vice versa
Syncopation
Meter
Dallet evolution
Native Americans
37. The steps of a dance as put together for performance or the art of composing dances
Choreography
Space between dancers
Elements should be found in all dance instruction
Dance post -1960s
38. The way in which various parts of the dancer's body are in line with one another while the dancer is moving
Tempo
Meter
Alignment
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
39. Movement associated with gods/funerals
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Egypt
Modern dance
Cultural dances
Lifts
40. Leader - follower - mirror - unison - or parting)
Social dance styles
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Egypt
Interactions between dancers
Well - known musical productions
41. 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
Extension
Syncopation
Passe
Combined locomotor
42. Rock 'n' roll; MTV; hip - hop; ballroom dancing (tango)
Social dance and mass culture
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Rome
Allegro
Individual - group - or class
43. Ceremonial dance with each character having specific hand movement - and martial (war) dancing
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) China
Arabesque
Elements of dance
Rhythm
44. 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
Religious or ceremonial dance
Pas de deux
Space between dancers
Elements of dance: Levels
45. 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
Choreography
Attitude
Dance activities should begin with these
Interactions between dancers
46. In theatre chorus; also the festival of Dionysus
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
Current examples of folk dances in the 20th century
Interactions between dancers
Pathway
47. Gaze - Floor - Away
Alignment
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) China
Focus
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
48. Based on music - songs - dialogue - and dance - Audiences often experience it in the form of musical theatre productions
Folk dance
Theatrical dance
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
Line
49. 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
Syncopation
Ballet
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
50. Dancing on the toes
Modern dance choreography
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
Pointe
Modern dance