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Dance Basics

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Leaving the ground and landing on the same foot






2. Striking the floor with the tip of the foot - with or without a weight change






3. Slow sustained movements that often incorporate developpes and balances such as penches






4. A choreographer asks four dancers to perform different movements simultaneously. This is called a






5. 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.






6. A dance teacher would most likely suggest that a student practice Pilates exercises in order to






7. She was the co-founder of denishawn - the first modern dance school






8. Combination: sustained time/direct space/light weight






9. He was a broadway/hollywood hoofer and actor who ushered in the tap revival of the 1980s






10. The term 'port des bras' refers to






11. The jazz dance choreography in the musical theater classics Chicago and Cabaret is the work of






12. The original french form of classical ballet from Russia






13. Leaving the ground and landing on the other foot






14. A structure of movement patterns in time; the pattern produced by emphasis and duration of notes in music.






15. Slow port-de-bras and bow at the end of class to acknowledge gratitude to the teacher






16. In order to improve student's kinesthetic awareness and originality - a teacher might assign






17. This award winning choreographer and musical director of cabaret - sweet charity - and all that jazz created the fosse technique






18. These include pique - chaine - and similar turns that move the dancer across the floor






19. This is a repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed beats in a piece of music






20. Runs vertically from the front to the back of an upright standing body the wheel plane






21. Outward rotation; turning a limb outward - toward the back of the body






22. This is a kind of snap. the head is tossed or turned from a frontward orientation to the side.






23. To extend or stretch - pointing the toes






24. Which of the following is typically not a goal of ideokinesis






25. A form of physical movement progressing from one place to another. Walking - running - grapevine - galloping - leaping - jumping - hopping - skipping - sliding - etc.






26. The intentional quality of the path taken by a body part or a body through space during a movement. direct or indirect






27. Of the following types of social dance listed below - which does not involve partnering?






28. Combination: sudden time/direct space/strong weight






29. This is the speed at Which music is played.






30. These denishawn students produced the first modern dance performance and established the humphrey technique






31. An element of dance characterized by the release of potential energy into kinetic energy. It utilizes body weight - reveals the effects of gravity on the body - is projected into space - and affects emotional and spatial relationships and intentions.






32. To disengage - brushing foot thru tendu to slightly leave the ground






33. 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.






34. In order to develop a dancer's endurance for a long performance - a teacher would recommend






35. He is a new generation broadway/hollywood tap and hip hop dancer and choreographer






36. Lightly striking the floor in an outward sweeping motion (brush with ball - scuff with heel)






37. A feeling of completion or wholeness in a dance achieved when all parts work well together.






38. Creation and composition of dances by arranging or inventing steps - movements - and pattern of movements.






39. If one were to eliminate the jumping elements from the combination which steps would be eliminated






40. What is the meter in the waltz






41. 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.






42. Movements are repeated






43. An element of dance that refers to the immediate spherical space surrounding the body in all directions. Use of space includes shape - direction - pathway - range of movement and level of movment(Low - middle - high).






44. Modern dance technique that transformed everyday movement in to the absurd or dramatic






45. This broadway and hollywood choreographer did the film version of west side story






46. 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.






47. 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






48. Dance associated with a nationalistic purpose - usually performed today as surviving portion of a traditional celebration and done for social gatherings or as recreation






49. This legendary tap dance partner of charles hone coles also worked as a choreographer for artists with the motown record label






50. A movement is made part of another movement