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CSET Domain 1 Performing Arts Dance
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Focusing the eyes on one point in the distance in order to keep balance while turning
Spotting
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Rumba flamenco
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
2. Dancing on the toes
Space between dancers
Pointe
Late 20th Century
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) China
3. Based on music - songs - dialogue - and dance - Audiences often experience it in the form of musical theatre productions
Theatrical dance
Interactions between dancers
Popular historical dances that are often used today
Martha Graham and psychodrama
4. Countable patterns
Theatrical dance
Body movement
Pointe
Rhythm
5. Movement without previous planning
Social dance and mass culture
Improvisation
Body movement
Movements involved in the space element of dance
6. Formalized hand movements (e.g. - Hindu dance - the oldest world dance)
Well - known musical productions
Other theatrical production
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Indi
7. On the ball of the foot - or half toe
Spotting
Dance teaching - key words and counts
Dance - pointe
Elevation
8. Gaze - Floor - Away
Focus
Creative movement
Renaissance (1400-1600)
Rhapsodic Rhythms
9. A line along which a person or part of a person moves - Patterns on/in the Floor - Elevated or Air
Pathway
Dallet evolution
Syncopation
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
10. 'To twirl or spin'; a turn on one foot that can be executed outward - away from the body - or inward - toward the body
Body movement
Kinds of Levels
Pirouette
Flamenco dance
11. Rock 'n' roll; MTV; hip - hop; ballroom dancing (tango)
Social dance and mass culture
Combined locomotor
Line
Allegro
12. Often carry important historical significance from ancient civilizations Examples: Chinese ribbon dance - Polish polonaise - India's Kathakali or Bharatanatyam dance - Clogging - traditionally from Wales - which involves double taps on both the heel
Cultural dances
Modern dance
Syncopation
Form and shape
13. Stretched the boundaries of classical ballet; new movements ('turnout')
Early 20th Century Revolutionary aspects of Ballets Russes (Russia)
Individual - group - or class
Modern dance
Framework for dance activity instruction
14. Even or uneven beat
Styles of dance and movement
Kinds of Levels
Modern dance
Beat
15. 1. Originated with the Andalusian Gypsies in Spain 2. Forceful rhythms 3. Hand clapping 4. Rapid foot movements 5. Use of castanets 6. Colorful costumes
Flamenco dance
Social dance styles
Interactions between dancers
Spotting
16. Born in the 20th century as a result of dancers resisting the rigid structure of classical ballet dance
Modern dance
Choreography
Abstraction
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Java
17. Quality of Energy - Degree of Energy
Modern dance
Dance - pointe
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Indi
Forc
18. A pose modeled after the statue of the winged Mercury by Giovanni Bologna in which the working leg is extended behind the body with the knee bent; it can also be held in front of the body
Syncopation
Tempo
Focus
Attitude
19. The continued evolution of ballet; emphasis on emotions and fantasy; true pointe work; evolution of 'lightness in flight'; - this differed from other dance forms in placement and alignment of the body - as well as in training - Focus on the ballerina
Social dance
Beat
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
Pirouette
20. The essence of an idea applied to the art of movement
Dance teaching - prep
Late 20th Century
Abstraction
Combined locomotor
21. Includes locomotor (moving from one place to another) and axial (contained movement around an axis of the body)
Body movement
Pas de deux
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
Elements of dance: Force
22. Rhythmic pattern produced when a deliberate pattern is upset - Rhythm produced when beats are displaced such that strong beats become weak and vice versa
Syncopation
Tempo
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
Historical forms of dance
23. Speed: fast or slow
Focus
Tempo
Play and sing with movement
Historical forms of dance
24. Non - metric (e.g. - breath - water - or wind)
Dance teaching - floor pattern
Rhapsodic rhythms
Choreography
Kinds of Levels
25. A part of pas de deux in which one dancer is lifted off the ground by another
Revolutionary aspects of early modern dance
Pirouette
Framework for dance activity instruction
Lifts
26. In theatre chorus; also the festival of Dionysus
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
Abstraction
Minuet
Tempo
27. Side - by - side - supported - far - or near)
Space between dancers
Movement materials
Creative movement
Rhapsodic Rhythms
28. Must include these four factors: Dance movements must predate the 19th century - Dance is performed by peasants or royalty - The choreography is derived from tradition - There is no teacher
Elements of dance: Force
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
Pirouette
Rhapsodic rhythms
29. Another popular form of the flamenco that originated in Cuba and Latin America
Force
Rumba flamenco
Historical forms of dance
Line
30. 1. Space 2. Time 3. Levels (dynamics) 4. Force (energy)
Combined locomotor
Syncopation
Virtuoso dancing
4 Elements of dance movements
31. The steps of a dance as put together for performance or the art of composing dances
Elements of dance: Force
Modern dance
Level
Choreography
32. A pose in which the working leg is extended with a straight knee directly behind the body (both the height of the leg and the position of the arms are variable)
Barre
Maypole dance
Arabesque
Beat
33. Determine appropriate age - related expectations for a safe - enjoyable classroom activity
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Framework for dance activity instruction
Passe
34. Polka - square dances - historic dances
Focus
Pas de deux
Allegro
Current examples of folk dances in the 20th century
35. Developed in France (1500s) - and moved to Italy; this led to the development of court dancing in Europe (nobility in a palace setting); patronage of the Medicis; 'dancing masters'; steps were slow (adagio) and fast (allegro); lack of spontaneity (de
Styles of dance and movement
Ballet
Line
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Indi
36. Ethnic and cultural dance - Cultural dances - Religious or ceremonial dance - Folk Dance - Play and sing with movement - Maypole dance - Modern Dance - Theatrical dance - Social dance
Postmodern dance
Syncopation
Square dancing and barn dancing
Styles of dance and movement
37. The way in which various parts of the dancer's body are in line with one another while the dancer is moving
Movement materials
Current examples of folk dances in the 20th century
Pointe
Alignment
38. Often danced on May Day in various European nations such as Germany and Sweden - taught in American schools today - The maypole is a tall pole decorated with floral garlands - flags - and streamers - Ribbons are attached to a pole - so that children
Dance
Movement materials
Maypole dance
Level
39. 1. Direction 2. Form and Shape 3. Level 4. Range 5. Pathway 6. Focus
Play and sing with movement
Dance teaching - floor pattern
Kinds of Levels
Beat
40. High -- Medium -- Low - Might refer to a dancer's head
Level
Space between dancers
18th and 19th Centuries
Force
41. Dance movement that is primary and nonfunctional - with an emphasis on body mastery for expressive and communicative purposes
Religious or ceremonial dance
Creative movement
Extension
Romantic Era
42. The Church attempted to restrict pagan dance - often associated with fertility - but folk dances evolved from earlier ritual dance (e.g. - Maypole dance; origins in primitive fertility rituals [dancing around a pole]; associated with spring)
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
Elevation
Syncopation
Level
43. Non - metric rhythms e.g. breath - water - or wind
Space between dancers
Popular historical dances that are often used today
Rhapsodic Rhythms
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Indi
44. Kabuki (traced to primitive rituals; it involves stomping - elaborate costumes - is male only - and is still current)
Pointe
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
Focus
Late 20th Century
45. (Staying in one place 'on spot'): stretching - pushing - twisting - bending - kicking - sinking - or curling
Other theatrical production
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Indi
Rhapsodic Rhythms
Nonlocomotor
46. All - inclusive term meaning the aesthetics of movement - the organization of moves with a beginning - middle - and end in sequential form
Promenade
Dance teaching - key words and counts
Tempo
Dance
47. Wide/Narrow - Big/Little
Syncopation
Modern dance
Range (of movement)
Allegro
48. Social dance - which celebrated births - special events - and rites of passage; ritual dance - which maintained tradition - religious rituals (temple dances) - and hunting magic; and fertility dance - which marked the changing seasons (especially for
Abstraction
Space between dancers
Historical forms of dance
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
49. Pavane - Galliard (from the Renaissance period) - The minuet - Charleston - Twist - Disco - Hip - hop - Lambada
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
Space between dancers
Degree of Energy
Popular historical dances that are often used today
50. A period from about 1820 to 1870 in which ballet was characterized primarily by supernatural subject matter - long white tutus - dancing on the toes - and theatrical innovations that permitted the dimming of the house lights for theatrical illusion
Syncopation
Rhapsodic rhythms
Social dance and mass culture
Romantic Era