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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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1. Leaving the ground and landing on the same foot
erick hawkins
hop
modern dance
syncopation
2. Striking the floor with the tip of the foot - with or without a weight change
toe
dynamics
reverance
paul taylor
3. Slow sustained movements that often incorporate developpes and balances such as penches
pirouette
canon
touch
adagio
4. A choreographer asks four dancers to perform different movements simultaneously. This is called a
pelvic thrusts
tableau
improve muscle strength
pathways
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.
contrast
gregory hines
press
vertically
6. A dance teacher would most likely suggest that a student practice Pilates exercises in order to
entrechat
improve muscle strength
first position
ball and socket joint
7. She was the co-founder of denishawn - the first modern dance school
ruth st. denis
stamp
kinesphere
dynamics
8. Combination: sustained time/direct space/light weight
glide
transitions
retrograde
fifth position
9. He was a broadway/hollywood hoofer and actor who ushered in the tap revival of the 1980s
axial movement
gregory hines
repetition
float
10. The term 'port des bras' refers to
free dance
Beauchamps & Noverre
ruby keeler
movement of the arms
11. The jazz dance choreography in the musical theater classics Chicago and Cabaret is the work of
contrast
Bob Fosse
axial movement
bartenieff fundamentals
12. The original french form of classical ballet from Russia
bob fosse
vaganova method
merce cunningham
step
13. Leaving the ground and landing on the other foot
jump
punch
Diaghilev
Principles of composition
14. A structure of movement patterns in time; the pattern produced by emphasis and duration of notes in music.
rotation
third position
gene kelly
rhythm
15. Slow port-de-bras and bow at the end of class to acknowledge gratitude to the teacher
economic development
free dance
reverance
Beauchamps & Noverre
16. In order to improve student's kinesthetic awareness and originality - a teacher might assign
a contact improvisation exercise
loie fuller and isadora duncan
katherine dunham
pilates
17. This award winning choreographer and musical director of cabaret - sweet charity - and all that jazz created the fosse technique
bob fosse
locomotion
axial movement
slap
18. These include pique - chaine - and similar turns that move the dancer across the floor
turns from corner
jerome robbins
Nijinsky
ruth st. denis
19. This is a repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed beats in a piece of music
jerome robbins
reverance
rhythm
balance
20. Runs vertically from the front to the back of an upright standing body the wheel plane
ball and socket joint
unison
unity
sagittal plane
21. Outward rotation; turning a limb outward - toward the back of the body
slap
eversion
pirouette
transverse horizontal plane
22. This is a kind of snap. the head is tossed or turned from a frontward orientation to the side.
rhythm
space
head whip
augmentation/diminution
23. To extend or stretch - pointing the toes
first position
tendu
stomp
instrumentation
24. Which of the following is typically not a goal of ideokinesis
fred astaire and ginger rogers
slash
improving flexibility
contrast
25. A form of physical movement progressing from one place to another. Walking - running - grapevine - galloping - leaping - jumping - hopping - skipping - sliding - etc.
first position
locomotion
polyrhythm
work
26. The intentional quality of the path taken by a body part or a body through space during a movement. direct or indirect
work
jazz
space
improve muscle strength
27. Of the following types of social dance listed below - which does not involve partnering?
line dancing
turns from corner
matt mattox
feldenkrais
28. Combination: sudden time/direct space/strong weight
punch
doris humphrey
grand allegro
frontal plane
29. This is the speed at Which music is played.
tempo
ectomorph
gus giordano
transverse horizontal plane
30. These denishawn students produced the first modern dance performance and established the humphrey technique
flexion and extension
doris humphrey and charles weidman
shape
tendu
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.
meter
movement of the arms
interdisciplinary
force/energy
32. To disengage - brushing foot thru tendu to slightly leave the ground
degage
pilates
incorporation
step
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.
bartenieff fundamentals
doris humphrey and charles weidman
time
adductor magnus
34. In order to develop a dancer's endurance for a long performance - a teacher would recommend
aerobic exercise
gregory hines
locomotion
ballet
35. He is a new generation broadway/hollywood tap and hip hop dancer and choreographer
assessing complex assignments
charles weidman
alexander technique
savion glover
36. Lightly striking the floor in an outward sweeping motion (brush with ball - scuff with heel)
repetition
brush/scuff
master juba lane
martha graham
37. A feeling of completion or wholeness in a dance achieved when all parts work well together.
fifth position
unity
martha graham
projection
38. Creation and composition of dances by arranging or inventing steps - movements - and pattern of movements.
choreography
bob fosse
Luigi
erick hawkins
39. If one were to eliminate the jumping elements from the combination which steps would be eliminated
axial movement
inversion
step
the changement and the sautes
40. What is the meter in the waltz
sagittal plane
modern dance
merce cunningham
3/4
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.
cholly atkins and coles
vertically
tap dance
Kinesthetics
42. Movements are repeated
repetition
turns from corner
flexion and extension
Luigi
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).
rhythm
space
flexion and extension
float
44. Modern dance technique that transformed everyday movement in to the absurd or dramatic
lester horton
frontal plane
step
charles weidman
45. This broadway and hollywood choreographer did the film version of west side story
step
force/energy
isolated movement
jerome robbins
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.
isolated movement
promenade - turns - lifts - leaps
erick hawkins
Beauchamps & Noverre
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
time
third position
narrative
modern dance
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
grand allegro
folk/traditional
Luigi
extension of the working leg
49. This legendary tap dance partner of charles hone coles also worked as a choreographer for artists with the motown record label
cholly atkins
3/4
Beauchamps & Noverre
modern dance
50. A movement is made part of another movement
space
head whip
unity
incorporation