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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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1. This award winning choreographer and musical director of cabaret - sweet charity - and all that jazz created the fosse technique
partnering/group skills
master juba lane
bob fosse
rhythm
2. A piece of choreography that lacks flow could be improved by the addition of
transitions
flow
harold and fayard nicholas
modern dance
3. She was the co-founder of denishawn - the first modern dance school
axial movement
ruth st. denis
sammy davis jr
petit allegro
4. Celebrated teacher of jazz technique
simultaneous canons
jerome robbins
twyla tharp
matt mattox
5. Forward brush followed by a touch
aerobic exercise
pelvic thrusts
slap
brush/scuff
6. The ability of the dancer to present their body with confidence and the required energy to communicate movements clearly to an audience.
sammy davis jr
twyla tharp
projection
a contact improvisation exercise
7. He established the first ballet school in France in the 1600s
inversion
contrast
King Louis XIV
modern dance
8. Leaving the ground and landing on the same foot
hop
overuse of a tendon
tableau
ball and socket joint
9. Runs vertically from the front to the back of an upright standing body the wheel plane
space
sagittal plane
float
action/reaction
10. Nonliteral choreography may have all but which of the following goals
loie fuller and isadora duncan
telling a traditional story
space
kinesthetic awareness
11. This is a repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed beats in a piece of music
plie
coordinating lighting and sound cues
rhythm
kinesphere
12. 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.
tap dance
motif and development
entrechat
master juba lane
13. This involves placing the limbs into positions so that the resulting combination of angles is unusual.
angular oppositions
body knowledge
alexander technique
matt mattox
14. Inward rotation; turning a limb inward - toward the front of the body
space
inversion
feldenkrais
dynamics
15. Lightly striking the floor in an outward sweeping motion (brush with ball - scuff with heel)
narrative
master juba lane
brush/scuff
reverance
16. This broadway and hollywood performer and choreographer introduced African and caribbean dance styles
social dance
incorporation
axial movement
katherine dunham
17. Tap dancers that are part of the jazz musical tradition such as bill bojangles robinson - sammy davis jr. - gregory hines and savion glover
developpe
degage
rhythm tap
rond de jambe
18. The movement is speeded up or slowed down
isolated movement
folk/traditional
tempo acceleration/deceleration
Luigi
19. Reach space or personal space.
repetition
kinesphere
adduction
tendu
20. If a ballet step such as grand battement is performed en croix - this means
fourth position
feldenkrais
doris humphrey
in all directions
21. In Laban's theory of effort (sometimes called movement dynamics) - which of the following qualities is not a dimension of effort?
Direction
ruth st. denis
fred astaire and ginger rogers
ball change
22. 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.
contrast
step
hinge
coordinating lighting and sound cues
23. 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
Mikhail Fokine
modern dance
bartenieff fundamentals
lester horton
24. A feeling of completion or wholeness in a dance achieved when all parts work well together.
unity
flexion and extension
erick hawkins
melody
25. The term 'port des bras' refers to
hop
movement of the arms
space
pirouette
26. The element of dance involving rhythm - phrasing - tempo - accent and duration. Time can be metered as in music or based on body rhythms such as breath - emotions - and heartbeat.
pelvic thrusts
pathways
weight
time
27. Combination: sudden time/direct space/strong weight
extension of the working leg
reverance
3/4
punch
28. He was a broadway - hollywood and las vegas dancer - singer and actor
sammy davis jr
body knowledge
promenade - turns - lifts - leaps
second position
29. 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)
variety
snap
improvisation
sagittal plane
30. Energy of movement expressed in varying intensities - accent and quality
dynamics
ballet
vaganova method
erick hawkins
31. 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
body knowledge
frontal plane
movement of the arms
bartenieff fundamentals
32. Four main movements in the pas de deux
Giselle
promenade - turns - lifts - leaps
extension of the working leg
vertically
33. In order to develop a dancer's endurance for a long performance - a teacher would recommend
variety
martha graham
aerobic exercise
ruby keeler
34. For which of the following types of dance is a shoe with a small - soft heel traditionally worn
fragmentation
loie fuller and isadora duncan
space
jazz
35. These include pirouette and fouette turns - in which the dancer remains in one place on the floor
stamp
turns at center
Beauchamps & Noverre
second position
36. He was a broadway/hollywood hoofer and actor who ushered in the tap revival of the 1980s
gregory hines
improving flexibility
stamp
loie fuller and isadora duncan
37. Dance performed in a social setting; traditionally referred to as ballroom - but includes all popular social dances performed with or without partners
biceps brachii - biceps femoris
George Balanchine
social dance
george balanchine
38. Placing the entire foot on the floor without a weight change
variety
tempo
stomp
harold and fayard nicholas
39. He was the choreographer for Ballets Russes
turns at center
cecchetti method
folk/traditional
Mikhail Fokine
40. Combination: sustained time/indirect space/strong weight
simultaneous canons
wring
first position
at the front
41. Feet heel of one foot against the instep of the other foot toes turned out arms: arm corresponding with front foot overhead arem corresponding with back foot open to the side as in second position
Kinesthetics
stomp
improvisation
third position
42. Two steps in sequence - one on each foot; the first step gets less weight than the second
bob fosse
broadway or show tap
hinge
ball change
43. Physics principles that govern motion - flow - and weight in time and space including: the law of gravity - balance and centrifugal force.
loie fuller and isadora duncan
Kinesthetics
line dancing
martha graham
44. Basic movements or short sequences are manipulated to create new but related movements
simultaneous canons
george balanchine
jerome robbins
motif and development
45. 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.
in all directions
toe
charles weidman
isolated movement
46. Circle of the leg - tracing a half circle upon the ground using the toes
frappe
tableau
rond de jambe
shuffle
47. Which of the following is typically not a goal of ideokinesis
improving flexibility
balance
ectomorph
step
48. He was a celebrated choreographer and the first male dance for the graham company
erick hawkins
syncopation
tap dance
space
49. This celebrated teacher founded the jazz dance world congress
Nijinsky
tap
contrast
gus giordano
50. Dancers begin at different points in a phrase - fall into step as the phrase progresses - and end in unison
fragmentation
degage
ideokinesis
cumulative canons