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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. Basic movements or short sequences are manipulated to create new but related movements
turns from corner
cecchetti method
motif and development
matt mattox
2. Placing the entire foot on the floor without a weight change
line dancing
stomp
variety
Catherine de Medici
3. In order to relieve muscle tension - a dancer might engage in all but which of the following practices
pelvic thrusts
pilates
hyperextension
jump
4. He was a crippled dancer who created a therapeutic method that led to the development of standard jazz technique
press
improve muscle strength
Luigi
contrast
5. Combination: sudden time/indirect space/light weight
motif and development
petit allegro
telling a traditional story
flick
6. 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
motif and development
ideokinesis
vertically
Kinesthetics
7. The ability of the dancer to present their body with confidence and the required energy to communicate movements clearly to an audience.
canon
projection
alexander technique
jazz hands
8. Which of the following is typically not a goal of ideokinesis
Bob Fosse
improving flexibility
shuffle
Nijinsky
9. This broadway and hollywood performer and choreographer introduced African and caribbean dance styles
katherine dunham
tendu
hop
doris humphrey and charles weidman
10. A form of physical movement progressing from one place to another. Walking - running - grapevine - galloping - leaping - jumping - hopping - skipping - sliding - etc.
jump
weight
locomotion
ball change
11. Reach space or personal space.
kinesphere
katherine dunham
Luigi
a contact improvisation exercise
12. She was an award-winning choreographer of both broadway and hollywood jazz and modern dance
hyperextension
reverance
Principles of composition
twyla tharp
13. 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.
choreography
force/energy
polyrhythm
ballet
14. She was a hollywood dancer who appeared in 42nd street and other films
george balanchine
tableau
Mikhail Fokine
ruby keeler
15. To develop or grow - drawing the working foot up the standing leg and then extending it outward
developpe
frontal plane
aerobic exercise
grand allegro
16. 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
tap dance
lester horton
ballet
step
17. Asking students to research a non-western culture and perform a dance from that culture is an example of an _____ approach to learning
shuffle
modern
interdisciplinary
cecchetti method
18. The movement is speeded up or slowed down
tempo acceleration/deceleration
tap dance
contrast
improve muscle strength
19. Early modern dance composition - such as that of martha graham - was characterized by which of the following forms?
ectomorph
narrative
katherine dunham
gene kelly
20. Modern jazz style that is a therapeutic method - emphasizes fluidity - unbroken motion - balance - and smooth transitions.
third position
Luigi
petit allegro
space
21. He was the first African american dancer to play to white audiences
master juba lane
entrechat
head whip
biceps brachii - biceps femoris
22. This involves placing the limbs into positions so that the resulting combination of angles is unusual.
fragmentation
angular oppositions
bill bojangles robinson
improving flexibility
23. Modern jazz style that emphasizes agility in all areas
rond de jambe
inversion
matt mattox
dynamics
24. To strike - striking the floor with the foot in a brushing movement
alexander technique
erick hawkins
frappe
cecchetti method
25. Similar to the principles of visual art. Refers to the presence of unity - continuity (transitions) and variety (contrasts and repitition-patterns) in the choreography
Principles of composition
transition
Mikhail Fokine
in all directions
26. Nonliteral choreography may have all but which of the following goals
stamp
telling a traditional story
Beauchamps & Noverre
hop
27. Slow port-de-bras and bow at the end of class to acknowledge gratitude to the teacher
savion glover
dynamics
reverance
adductor magnus
28. Dance associated with a nationalistic purpose - usually performed today as surviving portion of a traditional celebration and done for social gatherings or as recreation
martha graham
fourth position
cumulative canons
folk/traditional
29. The degree of ease or continuousness of a movement from initiation to completion
line dancing
polyrhythm
flow
promenade - turns - lifts - leaps
30. Which of the following two muscles are used for flexion in dance?
fragmentation
work
biceps brachii - biceps femoris
float
31. The action of over-straightening a joint past its natural angle - or the action of increasing the angle between two levers to more than 180 degrees
hyperextension
developpe
choreography
augmentation/diminution
32. These include pique - chaine - and similar turns that move the dancer across the floor
Marius Petipa
turns from corner
rhythm tap
syncopation
33. Leaving the ground and landing on the same foot
hop
ruby keeler
transverse horizontal plane
dynamics
34. If one were to eliminate the jumping elements from the combination which steps would be eliminated
step
adduction
the changement and the sautes
axial movement
35. Modern dance technique that transformed everyday movement in to the absurd or dramatic
tempo
rhythm tap
charles weidman
Luigi
36. This award winning choreographer and musical director of cabaret - sweet charity - and all that jazz created the fosse technique
improving flexibility
gregory hines
bob fosse
tempo
37. Multiple performers perform a movement in succession
canon
ruby keeler
meter
telling a traditional story
38. What is the meter in the waltz
3/4
rond de jambe
flexion and extension
Bob Fosse
39. 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
in all directions
erick hawkins
bartenieff fundamentals
force/energy
40. The orginal french form of classical ballet from italy
cecchetti method
movement of the arms
repetition
free dance
41. Tap dance is known for making heavy use of which of the following types of rhythm?
motif and development
syncopation
genre
martha graham
42. Forward brush followed by a step
flap
social dance
cecchetti method
gene kelly
43. Visualized as running vertically cross the chest - shoulder to should - on an upright standing body. the door plane
ann miller
cramp roll
frontal plane
tendu
44. Feet heels touching toes turned out arms: both arms held in front of the torso hands at waist level
broadway or show tap
jack cole
first position
line dancing
45. Energy of movement expressed in varying intensities - accent and quality
ann miller
merce cunningham
dynamics
jazz dance
46. A type of dance that began as a rebellion against steps and positions and values - Expressive and original or authentic movement. Alvin Ailey and Martha Graham
modern dance
flexion and extension
instrumentation
erick hawkins
47. Awareness of one's body and its possibilities - capabilities and limitations
force/energy
body knowledge
adduction
variety
48. Modern dance technique style that explores fall and recovery
doris humphrey
dynamics
locomotion
hop
49. Late modern dance technique that created dances without any attached historical - cultural or philosophical meanings
developpe
instrumentation
merce cunningham
dynamics
50. A piece of choreography that lacks flow could be improved by the addition of
jerome robbins
economic development
transitions
ruth st. denis