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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Bending and straightening the knees
ruby keeler
ball and socket joint
plie
flick
2. He was a turn of the century vaudeville hoofer who danced on broadway and in hollywood's shirley temple films
ball and socket joint
bill bojangles robinson
rhythm
brush/scuff
3. This award winning choreographer and musical director of cabaret - sweet charity - and all that jazz created the fosse technique
variety
economic development
bob fosse
cecchetti method
4. Where is the apron of the stage located
at the front
inversion
transitions
doris humphrey and charles weidman
5. While executing a fouette turn (fouette en tournant) the dancer's working leg is engaged in
improving flexibility
second position
flexion and extension
jazz hands
6. Movement created spontaneously - which ranges from freeform to highly structured environments - always including an element of chance.
master juba lane
bill bojangles robinson
improvisation
weight
7. To disengage - brushing foot thru tendu to slightly leave the ground
free dance
jazz dance
kinesthetic awareness
degage
8. Dancers begin at different points in a phrase - fall into step as the phrase progresses - and end in unison
ruth st. denis
cumulative canons
bob fosse
touch
9. He was the first African american dancer to play to white audiences
at the front
Direction
master juba lane
eversion
10. Feet heels touching toes turned out arms: both arms held in front of the torso hands at waist level
first position
katherine dunham
cecchetti method
contrast
11. These include pirouette and fouette turns - in which the dancer remains in one place on the floor
lester horton
tap
ted shawn
turns at center
12. A position of the body in space - such as curved - straight - angular - twisted - symmetrical - asymmetrical - etc.
slash
shape
vertically
modern dance
13. These hollywood partners were famous for appearing in films that featured their supernaturally smooth ballroom and tap styles
fred astaire and ginger rogers
paul taylor
action/reaction
merce cunningham
14. Modern dance technique that involves a dramatic contraction and release - emphasizes weight moving into the floor and a spiral image for off-center or off-balance movement
martha graham
jerome robbins
doris humphrey and charles weidman
george balanchine
15. He was the choreographer for Ballets Russes
endomorph
doris humphrey and charles weidman
ideokinesis
Mikhail Fokine
16. The term 'port des bras' refers to
movement of the arms
repetition
slap
Butoh
17. 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
hop
variety
fourth position
18. The hip joint is a
bartenieff fundamentals
Catherine de Medici
ball and socket joint
tendu
19. The size of the movement is increased or decreased
stomp
pelvic thrusts
master juba lane
augmentation/diminution
20. The original french form of classical ballet from Russia
pirouette
rhythm
flow
vaganova method
21. Modern jazz style that is a therapeutic method - emphasizes fluidity - unbroken motion - balance - and smooth transitions.
matt mattox
work
Luigi
folk/traditional
22. Runs vertically from the front to the back of an upright standing body the wheel plane
coordinating lighting and sound cues
space
abduction
sagittal plane
23. The movement is performed backwards
fifth position
ted shawn
retrograde
kinesphere
24. Leaving the ground and landing on the other foot
folk/traditional
jump
cumulative canons
Marius Petipa
25. Placing the ball of the foot on the floor with a weight change
Luigi
step
bartenieff fundamentals
improving flexibility
26. Phrasing may be determined by all but which of the following
adduction
transitions
space
jazz dance
27. A piece of choreography or dance
work
inversion
hyperextension
tap
28. This broadway and hollywood performer and choreographer introduced African and caribbean dance styles
press
contrast
Beauchamps & Noverre
katherine dunham
29. A form of Western classical dance that originated in the Renaissance courts of Europe. The dance form was formally codified by the time of King Louis XIV (mid-1600's) - Who was accomplished dancer - responsible for extensive notation as well as suppo
tap dance
ballet
instrumentation
assessing complex assignments
30. This involves placing the limbs into positions so that the resulting combination of angles is unusual.
jerome robbins
rhythm tap
adduction
angular oppositions
31. The inability of dancers to maintain their spacing during a group sequence most likely indicates a lack of
brush/scuff
kinesthetic awareness
erick hawkins
slash
32. Movement of a limb toward the midline of the body
adduction
flick
repetition
balance
33. The founder of the modern classical method of ballet
unison
improving flexibility
george balanchine
the changement and the sautes
34. Tap dancers that focus on design and dance aspect of tapping such as fred astaire - gene kelly and ann miller
coordinating lighting and sound cues
bartenieff fundamentals
martha graham
broadway or show tap
35. Forward brush followed by a touch
step
slap
tempo
erick hawkins
36. If one were to eliminate the jumping elements from the combination which steps would be eliminated
the changement and the sautes
hyperextension
work
force/energy
37. Outward rotation; turning a limb outward - toward the back of the body
promenade - turns - lifts - leaps
eversion
fragmentation
folk/traditional
38. Stretching of the foot along the floor - away from the standing leg
erick hawkins
touch
tendu
bartenieff fundamentals
39. The jazz dance choreography in the musical theater classics Chicago and Cabaret is the work of
meter
petit allegro
frappe
Bob Fosse
40. 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
ted shawn
space
step
third position
41. To strike - striking the floor with the foot in a brushing movement
loie fuller and isadora duncan
frappe
alexander technique
overuse of a tendon
42. Early modern dance composition - such as that of martha graham - was characterized by which of the following forms?
dynamics
narrative
tempo
merce cunningham
43. To extend or stretch - pointing the toes
tendu
ball change
isolated movement
shuffle
44. He is the father of ballet in American and the founder of the NY city Ballet
tableau
partnering/group skills
improve muscle strength
George Balanchine
45. Which of the following ballets used music not composed by Tchaikovsky
tendu
Giselle
modern
first position
46. Dance marked by movement isolations and complex polyrhythms found in African American music such as - ragtime - jazz - spirituals - blues - work songs and is considered and American style of dance.
jazz
jazz dance
ideokinesis
partnering/group skills
47. 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
canon
punch
lester horton
first position
48. They codified many standard ballet rules still used today
choreography
Catherine de Medici
head whip
Beauchamps & Noverre
49. He was the creator of legendary ballets for the Russian Imperial Theatre including the Nutcracker and Swan Lake
dynamics
Marius Petipa
touch
press
50. Part of a movement is performed
melody
unity
fragmentation
martha graham