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Dance Basics
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performing-arts
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dance
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A movement is made part of another movement
frappe
incorporation
rhythm tap
inversion
2. Jose Limon - Alvin Ailey - Paul Taylor - Katharine Dunham - Merce Cunningham expanded
press
cecchetti method
modern dance
improvisation
3. To set side by side to emphasize difference in dance - two movements that differ in energy - space - (size - direction - level) - design (symmetrical/asymmetrical - open/closed) - timing (fast/slow - even -uneven - themes or patterns.
simultaneous canons
contrast
adduction
erick hawkins
4. A lean body with enhanced flexibility due to a lack of muscular strength
Beauchamps & Noverre
touch
endomorph
3/4
5. Lightly striking the floor in an outward sweeping motion (brush with ball - scuff with heel)
gus giordano
brush/scuff
choreography
tempo acceleration/deceleration
6. In jazz dance - bending backward from the knees while maintaining a straight torso is called a
cholly atkins and coles
hinge
flick
transverse horizontal plane
7. Which of the following societal changes has probably had the least impact on the variety of dance styles that are performed in the US today?
variety
economic development
narrative
touch
8. Defined specifically as the volume at Which musical notes are played.
dynamics
plie
tempo acceleration/deceleration
improvisation
9. Movement created spontaneously - which ranges from freeform to highly structured environments - always including an element of chance.
folk/traditional
angular oppositions
improvisation
accumulation
10. The speed of the music or dance
pirouette
slap
cramp roll
tempo
11. Which of the following movements can be performed en dedans
abduction
pirouette
glide
george balanchine
12. Which of the following is typically not a goal of ideokinesis
improving flexibility
isolated movement
first position
locomotion
13. This broadway and hollywood performer and choreographer introduced African and caribbean dance styles
Nijinsky
degage
tempo
katherine dunham
14. Combination: sustained time/indirect space/strong weight
sammy davis jr
projection
wring
Nijinsky
15. He was the founder of Ballets Russes
lester horton
narrative
line dancing
Diaghilev
16. What is the meter in the waltz
3/4
promenade - turns - lifts - leaps
time
twyla tharp
17. He was the first African american dancer to play to white audiences
katherine dunham
master juba lane
head whip
fourth position
18. Tendonitis is typically caused by
overuse of a tendon
george balanchine
fred astaire and ginger rogers
ball change
19. Late modern dance technique that created dances without any attached historical - cultural or philosophical meanings
merce cunningham
flick
ted shawn
master juba lane
20. Combination: sustained time/direct space/light weight
step
glide
loie fuller and isadora duncan
choreography
21. Which of the following tasks is the duty of a stage manager?
ball and socket joint
coordinating lighting and sound cues
extension
tempo
22. These denishawn students produced the first modern dance performance and established the humphrey technique
plie
master juba lane
projection
doris humphrey and charles weidman
23. For which of the following types of dance is a shoe with a small - soft heel traditionally worn
merce cunningham
the changement and the sautes
jerome robbins
jazz
24. Tap dancers that focus on design and dance aspect of tapping such as fred astaire - gene kelly and ann miller
folk/traditional
augmentation/diminution
broadway or show tap
Direction
25. In order to develop a dancer's endurance for a long performance - a teacher would recommend
work
rond de jambe
fragmentation
aerobic exercise
26. Kazua ohno and tatsumi hijikata developed
Marius Petipa
abduction
George Balanchine
Butoh
27. Feet: heel of one foot against the big toe of the other foot - toes turned out arms. both arms extending overhead
shape
ted shawn
eversion
fifth position
28. He was a star dancer with and controversial choerographer for Ballets Russes
twyla tharp
Nijinsky
improving flexibility
fifth position
29. The original movement is the question and the new movement is the answer
action/reaction
improving flexibility
Catherine de Medici
modern dance
30. What is the primary muscle that is stretched by reaching forward from a seated position and bending the upper torso as close to the floor as possible - while the legs are extended to the sides at roughly a 150 degree angle (straddle stretch)?
martha graham
a contact improvisation exercise
the changement and the sautes
adductor magnus
31. A type of dance that concentrates of footwork and rhythm. This type of dance grew out of American popular dancing - with significant roots in African American - Irish and english clogging traditions.
rhythm
tap dance
Direction
pirouette
32. Movement anchored to one spot by a pody part. Only the available space in any direction is used while the initial body contact is being maintained. Movement is organized around the axis of the body and is not designed to travel from one location to a
choreography
axial movement
lester horton
savion glover
33. Rounded body type.
cecchetti method
matt mattox
variety
ectomorph
34. A particular kind or style of dance - such as - ballet - jazz - modern - folk - tap - hip-hop - etc.
contrast
social dance
bob fosse
genre
35. Refers to simple - multiple - and different rhythm patterns played at the same time.
ballet
jump
polyrhythm
martha graham
36. To strike - striking the floor with the foot in a brushing movement
tendu
unison
frappe
slap
37. He established the first ballet school in France in the 1600s
King Louis XIV
jazz hands
genre
contrast
38. Celebrated teacher of jazz technique
transitions
variety
vertically
matt mattox
39. Modern dance technique that involves a dramatic contraction and release - emphasizes weight moving into the floor and a spiral image for off-center or off-balance movement
hinge
broadway or show tap
martha graham
rond de jambe
40. Large jumps or leaps Which move the dancer across the floor - such as grandes jetes or tours jetes
master juba lane
kinesphere
space
grand allegro
41. A piece of choreography that lacks flow could be improved by the addition of
transitions
dab
feldenkrais
unison
42. Feet: separated shoulder width third position arms: arm corresponding with front foot in front of the torso as in first position - arm corresponding with back foot overhead as in fifth position
fourth position
repetition
Nijinsky
cecchetti method
43. This involves placing the limbs into positions so that the resulting combination of angles is unusual.
retrograde
angular oppositions
ruby keeler
jack cole
44. A quantity or range of different things. Helps maintain the audiences interest and helps the choreographer to develop the dance. Contrasts in the use of space(open/closed) - force(smooth/sharp) and spatial designs(straight lines/ curves/zigzags)
frontal plane
shuffle
Mikhail Fokine
variety
45. Feet separated shoulder width toes turned out arms: both extended open and held symmetrically out to the sides - hands between the shoulders and ribcage
ballet
at the front
second position
inversion
46. Multiple performers perform a movement in succession
canon
Luigi
float
gregory hines
47. These include pirouette and fouette turns - in which the dancer remains in one place on the floor
ideokinesis
twyla tharp
alexander technique
turns at center
48. This denishawn dancer and broadway choreographer invented theater dance
jack cole
modern dance
pirouette
flow
49. Modern dance technique style that explores fall and recovery
pelvic thrusts
toe
doris humphrey
rhythm
50. Modern dance technique that appears in the lateral T shape his dancers assume - a one-leg balance with the torso tilted off-center and the other leg extended to the side in a counterbalance
martha graham
lester horton
canon
brush/scuff