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Dance Basics
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Subjects
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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. The hip joint is a
turns at center
ball and socket joint
economic development
pelvic thrusts
2. More is added to the original movement
vaganova method
accumulation
improvisation
Diaghilev
3. In jazz dance - bending backward from the knees while maintaining a straight torso is called a
ball and socket joint
dynamics
hinge
doris humphrey and charles weidman
4. The founder of the modern classical method of ballet
Nijinsky
merce cunningham
dynamics
george balanchine
5. The orginal french form of classical ballet from italy
sammy davis jr
flap
time
cecchetti method
6. Widespread hand posture where the fingers are extended strongly outward from the palm
jazz hands
extension of the working leg
canon
merce cunningham
7. Kazua ohno and tatsumi hijikata developed
Butoh
isolated movement
kinesphere
time
8. He was the first African american dancer to play to white audiences
instrumentation
transitions
master juba lane
dynamics
9. In order to improve student's kinesthetic awareness and originality - a teacher might assign
vertically
ball change
in all directions
a contact improvisation exercise
10. Which of the following men is known for pioneering tap dance as a young man living in the Five Points neighborhood of NY city
gus giordano
aerobic exercise
feldenkrais
master juba lane
11. Which of the following ballets used music not composed by Tchaikovsky
promenade - turns - lifts - leaps
isolated movement
Giselle
partnering/group skills
12. In order to develop a dancer's endurance for a long performance - a teacher would recommend
head whip
wring
aerobic exercise
isolated movement
13. The action of over-straightening a joint past its natural angle - or the action of increasing the angle between two levers to more than 180 degrees
matt mattox
hyperextension
twyla tharp
King Louis XIV
14. She brought the precursors of ballet to France in the 1500s
frappe
promenade - turns - lifts - leaps
force/energy
Catherine de Medici
15. These include pique - chaine - and similar turns that move the dancer across the floor
angular oppositions
ruby keeler
turns from corner
head whip
16. When a frappe` is performed - the accent is typically on the
a contact improvisation exercise
canon
modern
extension of the working leg
17. Modern jazz style that emphasizes agility in all areas
fragmentation
Beauchamps & Noverre
jerome robbins
matt mattox
18. Movement of a limb toward the midline of the body
slash
step
biceps brachii - biceps femoris
adduction
19. In Laban's theory of effort (sometimes called movement dynamics) - which of the following qualities is not a dimension of effort?
Direction
fred astaire and ginger rogers
vaganova method
loie fuller and isadora duncan
20. Awareness of one's body and its possibilities - capabilities and limitations
modern
body knowledge
tempo
master juba lane
21. Observers would be unlikely to see contractions - releases - and isolations in which of the following dance forms?
flexion and extension
gregory hines
ballet
force/energy
22. Jose Limon - Alvin Ailey - Paul Taylor - Katharine Dunham - Merce Cunningham expanded
matt mattox
contrast
katherine dunham
modern dance
23. Modern dance technique style that explores fall and recovery
tendu
ideokinesis
doris humphrey
turns at center
24. Inward rotation; turning a limb inward - toward the front of the body
gus giordano
Catherine de Medici
telling a traditional story
inversion
25. Dancers begin at different points in a phrase - fall into step as the phrase progresses - and end in unison
axial movement
cumulative canons
frappe
pathways
26. Based on laban movement analysis - this practice encourages a deepened awareness of the connections between mind - body - movement - and internal and external environments to enhance mobility and function
bartenieff fundamentals
interdisciplinary
savion glover
syncopation
27. Late modern dance technique that created dances without any attached historical - cultural or philosophical meanings
jazz
gregory hines
merce cunningham
shape
28. Which of the following steps in tap dance would produce a total of four audible taps?
cramp roll
press
meter
hyperextension
29. The pelvis is pressed forcefully forward
bob fosse
flexion
pelvic thrusts
tempo acceleration/deceleration
30. This award winning choreographer and musical director of cabaret - sweet charity - and all that jazz created the fosse technique
ruth st. denis
slash
bob fosse
ectomorph
31. Modern jazz style that is an exploratory style. mixes in ballet
extension
canon
gus giordano
harold and fayard nicholas
32. He is a new generation broadway/hollywood tap and hip hop dancer and choreographer
jerome robbins
cecchetti method
pilates
savion glover
33. The intentional quality of the path taken by a body part or a body through space during a movement. direct or indirect
space
accumulation
Kinesthetics
glide
34. The inability of dancers to maintain their spacing during a group sequence most likely indicates a lack of
cumulative canons
Marius Petipa
kinesthetic awareness
shuffle
35. He established the first ballet school in France in the 1600s
movement of the arms
bill bojangles robinson
Kinesthetics
King Louis XIV
36. Movement executed with one body part or a small part of the body. Examples are rooling the head - shruggung the shoulders and rotating the pelvis.
Luigi
alexander technique
float
isolated movement
37. 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?
economic development
rond de jambe
pirouette
head whip
38. Four main movements in the pas de deux
overuse of a tendon
press
improve muscle strength
promenade - turns - lifts - leaps
39. Lightly striking the floor in an outward sweeping motion (brush with ball - scuff with heel)
brush/scuff
jazz hands
punch
tap
40. Is the degree of the force of body weight introduced into a movement
transitions
weight
punch
time
41. Energy of movement expressed in varying intensities - accent and quality
Principles of composition
twyla tharp
punch
dynamics
42. Feet: heel of one foot against the big toe of the other foot - toes turned out arms. both arms extending overhead
fifth position
harold and fayard nicholas
feldenkrais
ruby keeler
43. Feet heels touching toes turned out arms: both arms held in front of the torso hands at waist level
motif and development
first position
ballet
wring
44. Late modern dance technique that draws from everyday gestures and movements such as sitting - crawling - rolling - walking - and running.
ideokinesis
paul taylor
transverse horizontal plane
accumulation
45. This celebrated teacher founded the jazz dance world congress
hinge
polyrhythm
gus giordano
martha graham
46. This is a kind of snap. the head is tossed or turned from a frontward orientation to the side.
time
head whip
plie
grand allegro
47. To disengage - brushing foot thru tendu to slightly leave the ground
economic development
dynamics
sagittal plane
degage
48. This is a repeated grouping of accented beats
free dance
meter
force/energy
isolated movement
49. What is the meter in the waltz
3/4
space
ballet
eversion
50. Basic movements or short sequences are manipulated to create new but related movements
matt mattox
space
motif and development
alexander technique