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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. Skills requiring cooperation -coordination and dependence - including imitation - lead and follow - echo - mirroring and call and response
pathways
partnering/group skills
ballet
second position
2. Combination: sudden time/direct space/strong weight
balance
rhythm
punch
merce cunningham
3. Late modern dance technique that created dances without any attached historical - cultural or philosophical meanings
space
merce cunningham
tempo
balance
4. Celebrated teacher of jazz technique
polyrhythm
projection
turns from corner
matt mattox
5. Modern jazz style that is a therapeutic method - emphasizes fluidity - unbroken motion - balance - and smooth transitions.
Luigi
modern
rhythm
second position
6. Combination: sustained time/direct space/strong weight
bill bojangles robinson
press
wring
canon
7. He is a new generation broadway/hollywood tap and hip hop dancer and choreographer
modern dance
kinesphere
savion glover
Luigi
8. In Laban Movement Analysis the space in which a dancer's body is moving is called the
kinesphere
choreography
pilates
King Louis XIV
9. He was the co-founder of denishawn and the founder of jacob's pillow dance festival
Mikhail Fokine
hyperextension
ted shawn
brush/scuff
10. Jose Limon - Alvin Ailey - Paul Taylor - Katharine Dunham - Merce Cunningham expanded
ballet
economic development
modern dance
second position
11. The sagittal plane divides the body
vertically
transverse horizontal plane
Butoh
Luigi
12. Modern dance technique style that explores fall and recovery
shape
turns from corner
time
doris humphrey
13. The action of straightening a joint or the action of increasing the angle between tow levers
ruth st. denis
rotation
extension
stomp
14. Placing an accent on a normally weak beat
cramp roll
promenade - turns - lifts - leaps
syncopation
aerobic exercise
15. In order to improve student's kinesthetic awareness and originality - a teacher might assign
a contact improvisation exercise
endomorph
fred astaire and ginger rogers
turns from corner
16. Combination: sudden time/indirect space/light weight
ectomorph
flick
melody
flow
17. A piece of choreography or dance
in all directions
hinge
doris humphrey
work
18. Physics principles that govern motion - flow - and weight in time and space including: the law of gravity - balance and centrifugal force.
endomorph
Kinesthetics
jazz hands
syncopation
19. Feet: heel of one foot against the big toe of the other foot - toes turned out arms. both arms extending overhead
hyperextension
fifth position
space
kinesphere
20. This is a repeated grouping of accented beats
meter
flick
inversion
fragmentation
21. Leaving the ground and landing on the other foot
cholly atkins and coles
jump
float
Nijinsky
22. The speed of the music or dance
transition
cecchetti method
tempo
action/reaction
23. She brought the precursors of ballet to France in the 1500s
line dancing
flick
Catherine de Medici
broadway or show tap
24. Widespread hand posture where the fingers are extended strongly outward from the palm
erick hawkins
pathways
jazz hands
3/4
25. Stretching of the foot along the floor - away from the standing leg
Beauchamps & Noverre
doris humphrey
tendu
kinesphere
26. Defined specifically as the volume at Which musical notes are played.
accumulation
body knowledge
in all directions
dynamics
27. They codified many standard ballet rules still used today
press
Beauchamps & Noverre
interdisciplinary
rhythm
28. 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)
improving flexibility
variety
Beauchamps & Noverre
frappe
29. Which of the following steps in tap dance would produce a total of four audible taps?
cramp roll
improve muscle strength
3/4
frontal plane
30. Phrasing may be determined by all but which of the following
space
unison
pathways
choreography
31. Combination: sustained time/indirect space/strong weight
george balanchine
wring
master juba lane
rond de jambe
32. He was the choreographer for Ballets Russes
Mikhail Fokine
ballet
endomorph
reverance
33. This employs mental visualization of carefull devised imagery with tactile input to enhance coordination of movement and adjust habitual posture and movement habits. if one can see efficient and aligned movement - one can achieve it
doris humphrey and charles weidman
ideokinesis
at the front
katherine dunham
34. A movement is made part of another movement
tap dance
pilates
meter
incorporation
35. Bending and straightening the knees
matt mattox
frontal plane
rond de jambe
plie
36. Striking the floor with the tip of the foot - with or without a weight change
incorporation
lester horton
toe
ruth st. denis
37. Dance movemnt that takes place at the same time across the whole group of dancers
flexion and extension
unison
angular oppositions
cholly atkins and coles
38. This practice employs repetitive motions derived from fundamental gestures and natural movements to increase awareness of habitual movement patterns and release tension left over from old injuries and habits in order to expand range of motion in the
rotation
feldenkrais
rhythm tap
retrograde
39. Which of the following ballets used music not composed by Tchaikovsky
at the front
balance
Giselle
vertically
40. Feet heels touching toes turned out arms: both arms held in front of the torso hands at waist level
first position
dab
cumulative canons
cholly atkins and coles
41. Placing the ball of the foot on the floor with a weight change
free dance
space
step
first position
42. He was a broadway/hollywood hoofer and actor who ushered in the tap revival of the 1980s
gregory hines
economic development
George Balanchine
george balanchine
43. The term 'port des bras' refers to
ruth st. denis
repetition
movement of the arms
alexander technique
44. Modern jazz style that is an exploratory style. mixes in ballet
gus giordano
flap
erick hawkins
pilates
45. 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?
improvisation
economic development
stomp
jazz hands
46. A structure of movement patterns in time; the pattern produced by emphasis and duration of notes in music.
rhythm
head whip
plie
vaganova method
47. Movements are repeated
ann miller
degage
Principles of composition
repetition
48. She was the co-founder of denishawn - the first modern dance school
ted shawn
action/reaction
ruth st. denis
kinesthetic awareness
49. Refers to simple - multiple - and different rhythm patterns played at the same time.
petit allegro
movement of the arms
polyrhythm
axial movement
50. Combination: sustained time/direct space/light weight
line dancing
mesomorph
glide
cholly atkins