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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. To disengage - brushing foot thru tendu to slightly leave the ground
martha graham
modern
martha graham
degage
2. 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.
axial movement
time
fourth position
wring
3. In order to develop a dancer's endurance for a long performance - a teacher would recommend
vaganova method
turns from corner
body knowledge
aerobic exercise
4. Which of the following dance steps is most advanced? plie - degage - entrechat - tendu
entrechat
3/4
flick
force/energy
5. Part of a movement is performed
Beauchamps & Noverre
jack cole
unity
fragmentation
6. Combination: sustained time/direct space/light weight
glide
fragmentation
Marius Petipa
tendu
7. The movement is speeded up or slowed down
tempo acceleration/deceleration
cumulative canons
dynamics
ruth st. denis
8. A movement is made part of another movement
incorporation
unity
jump
touch
9. Which of the following two muscles are used for flexion in dance?
biceps brachii - biceps femoris
kinesphere
master juba lane
movement of the arms
10. Placing the entire foot on the floor with a weight change
stamp
vaganova method
Bob Fosse
body knowledge
11. Kazua ohno and tatsumi hijikata developed
Butoh
float
flexion and extension
fifth position
12. Energy of movement expressed in varying intensities - accent and quality
abduction
twyla tharp
ball and socket joint
dynamics
13. Jose Limon - Alvin Ailey - Paul Taylor - Katharine Dunham - Merce Cunningham expanded
interdisciplinary
incorporation
modern dance
cholly atkins
14. Dance performed in a social setting; traditionally referred to as ballroom - but includes all popular social dances performed with or without partners
locomotion
in all directions
social dance
improving flexibility
15. A form of physical movement progressing from one place to another. Walking - running - grapevine - galloping - leaping - jumping - hopping - skipping - sliding - etc.
tempo
the changement and the sautes
King Louis XIV
locomotion
16. Late modern dance technique developed through an effortless free flow technique that released tension in the body through an emphasis on weight - placement - impulse - immediacy and movement dynamics
brush/scuff
Direction
erick hawkins
unity
17. Small - quick jumps in place such as changements - temps leves - and assembles
rhythm
pirouette
extension
petit allegro
18. Asking students to research a non-western culture and perform a dance from that culture is an example of an _____ approach to learning
cramp roll
accumulation
interdisciplinary
stomp
19. This legendary tap dance partner of charles hone coles also worked as a choreographer for artists with the motown record label
extension of the working leg
tap
economic development
cholly atkins
20. Striking the floor with the tip of the foot - with or without a weight change
frappe
toe
rhythm tap
weight
21. Dance associated with a nationalistic purpose - usually performed today as surviving portion of a traditional celebration and done for social gatherings or as recreation
movement of the arms
ball change
folk/traditional
rhythm
22. More is added to the original movement
rhythm
gus giordano
abduction
accumulation
23. He was a crippled dancer who created a therapeutic method that led to the development of standard jazz technique
endomorph
unity
Luigi
reverance
24. Widespread hand posture where the fingers are extended strongly outward from the palm
degage
syncopation
jazz hands
augmentation/diminution
25. Combination: sudden time/indirect space/light weight
bob fosse
flick
endomorph
tap
26. This involves placing the limbs into positions so that the resulting combination of angles is unusual.
angular oppositions
Kinesthetics
wring
martha graham
27. What is the meter in the waltz
3/4
charles weidman
interdisciplinary
in all directions
28. In jazz dance - bending backward from the knees while maintaining a straight torso is called a
first position
force/energy
retrograde
hinge
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)
entrechat
modern dance
balance
variety
30. Defined specifically as the volume at Which musical notes are played.
shuffle
assessing complex assignments
dynamics
flap
31. In Laban Movement Analysis the space in which a dancer's body is moving is called the
a contact improvisation exercise
ball change
harold and fayard nicholas
kinesphere
32. Observers would be unlikely to see contractions - releases - and isolations in which of the following dance forms?
turns at center
loie fuller and isadora duncan
gus giordano
ballet
33. If a ballet step such as grand battement is performed en croix - this means
syncopation
hop
line dancing
in all directions
34. A position of the body in space - such as curved - straight - angular - twisted - symmetrical - asymmetrical - etc.
hinge
eversion
shape
tempo
35. He is the father of ballet in American and the founder of the NY city Ballet
step
George Balanchine
fred astaire and ginger rogers
Direction
36. 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
endomorph
tableau
toe
third position
37. While executing a fouette turn (fouette en tournant) the dancer's working leg is engaged in
ann miller
ectomorph
space
flexion and extension
38. A lean body with enhanced flexibility due to a lack of muscular strength
harold and fayard nicholas
incorporation
eversion
endomorph
39. Lightly striking the floor in an outward sweeping motion (brush with ball - scuff with heel)
brush/scuff
jack cole
jazz dance
ted shawn
40. These include pirouette and fouette turns - in which the dancer remains in one place on the floor
extension of the working leg
turns at center
developpe
broadway or show tap
41. He was a broadway - hollywood and las vegas dancer - singer and actor
abduction
frappe
angular oppositions
sammy davis jr
42. Refers to simple - multiple - and different rhythm patterns played at the same time.
the changement and the sautes
folk/traditional
kinesphere
polyrhythm
43. Feet heels touching toes turned out arms: both arms held in front of the torso hands at waist level
choreography
first position
flow
3/4
44. Runs vertically from the front to the back of an upright standing body the wheel plane
flow
sagittal plane
eversion
doris humphrey and charles weidman
45. He was a star dancer with and controversial choerographer for Ballets Russes
simultaneous canons
Kinesthetics
projection
Nijinsky
46. Creation and composition of dances by arranging or inventing steps - movements - and pattern of movements.
projection
choreography
kinesphere
flow
47. Which of the following ballets used music not composed by Tchaikovsky
bill bojangles robinson
Giselle
merce cunningham
rhythm
48. Which of the following is typically not a goal of ideokinesis
cumulative canons
hyperextension
improving flexibility
gregory hines
49. Placing an accent on a normally weak beat
jazz dance
syncopation
dab
improve muscle strength
50. The orginal french form of classical ballet from italy
cecchetti method
tempo acceleration/deceleration
King Louis XIV
syncopation