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CSET Domain 1 Performing Arts Dance
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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)
Beat
Modern dance
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
Dallet evolution
2. Dance movement that is primary and nonfunctional - with an emphasis on body mastery for expressive and communicative purposes
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
Creative movement
Arabesque
Form and shape
3. Ballet - jazz - and tap
Well - known musical productions
Dance - pointe
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
Space between dancers
4. Determine appropriate age - related expectations for a safe - enjoyable classroom activity
Popular historical dances that are often used today
Passe
Framework for dance activity instruction
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
5. Born in the 20th century as a result of dancers resisting the rigid structure of classical ballet dance
Attitude
Modern dance
Alignment
Religious or ceremonial dance
6. Intense movement often depicting pain - fear - and love; dance forms 'sculptured' by human body positions; contraction and release of the torso - 'fall and recover'; angular gestures; schools and dance companies
Space
Martha Graham and psychodrama
Adagio
Social dance styles
7. Movement without previous planning
Space between dancers
Rumba flamenco
Improvisation
Kinesthetic awareness
8. Feeling the dance movements of others in one's own muscles
Social dance styles
Maypole dance
Level
Kinesthetic awareness
9. A line along which a person or part of a person moves - Patterns on/in the Floor - Elevated or Air
Form and Shape
Folk dance
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Indi
Pathway
10. Gaze - Floor - Away
Renaissance (1400-1600)
Focus
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
Pathway
11. 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
Historical forms of dance
Elevation
Elements of dance: Time
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
12. Wide/Narrow - Big/Little
Postmodern dance
Movements involved in the space element of dance
Range (of movement)
Syncopation
13. Refers to the lexicon of dance as taught in the original academies - also used in reference to ballets as created during the Imperial Russian days - such as The Sleeping Beauty - The Nutcracker - and Swan Lake - also refers to a style of performing
Classical
Folk dance
Elevation
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
14. 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
Virtuoso dancing
Dallet evolution
Flamenco dance
Dance teaching - key words and counts
15. (Staying in one place 'on spot'): stretching - pushing - twisting - bending - kicking - sinking - or curling
Force
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
Nonlocomotor
Pathway
16. Direction: forward - backward - up - down - sideways (horizontal or vertical) - diagonal - straight - circle - out - in - zigzag - or spiral
Allegro
Elements of dance: Levels
Social dance styles
Dance - Prehistory to Beginning of Middle Ages (A.D. 400)
17. Leader - follower - mirror - unison - or parting)
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
Theatrical dance
Interactions between dancers
Elevation
18. Another popular form of the flamenco that originated in Cuba and Latin America
Adagio
Rumba flamenco
Movement materials
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
19. Have expressed mourning the spirit in dance movement. They have also used dance as a ritual to prepare for battles and to celebrate joyful occasions.
Native Americans
Popular historical dances that are often used today
Rumba flamenco
Dance activities should begin with these
20. From the musical term - this refers to quick or lively movements
Martha Graham and psychodrama
Spotting
Allegro
Styles of dance and movement
21. Floor - elevated - or air patterns
Pathway
Choreography
Space between dancers
Allegro
22. 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
Modern dance choreography
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
Direction
Spotting
23. A part of pas de deux in which one dancer is lifted off the ground by another
Virtuoso dancing
Lifts
Line
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
24. The way in which various parts of the dancer's body are in line with one another while the dancer is moving
Virtuoso dancing
Kinesthetic awareness
Alignment
George Balanchine (director of the New York City Ballet) and modern American ballet
25. Immediate area surrounding the body; the area in which bodies can move at all levels
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
Focus
Styles of dance and movement
Space
26. There are many regional differences; all had recreational aspects and basic steps such as running - walking - hopping - and skipping; all are linked to culture - music - and the history of a group; they take the form of a circle
Social dance and mass culture
Characteristics of folk dance
Social dance
Focus
27. Separate the dance into the steps. Begin by teaching the steps - describing and demonstrating each separately. Steps are done slowly at first - using counts - and then at the proper tempo - Teach one part of the basic step pattern at a time; when two
Focus
Framework for dance activity instruction
Dance teaching - prep
Elements of dance: Force
28. Quality of Energy - Degree of Energy
Improvisation
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Indi
Forc
Tempo
29. Formal dancing spread to the Continent; expansion of professional dancing masters; professional choreography at the Paris Opera (opera and dance); costuming; introduction of the waltz (1-2-3) rhythm; court dance
Renaissance (1400-1600)
Lifts
Elevation
18th and 19th Centuries
30. Strong/Weak - Heavy/Light - Dynamic/Static - Flowing/Tense
Degree of Energy
Extension
Individual - group - or class
The 8 basic steps
31. Space - Time - Levels (dynamics)- Force (energy) - Locomotor (traveling through space)
Elements of dance
Square dancing and barn dancing
Alignment
Pas de deux
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)
Dance - pointe
Arabesque
Body movement
Ballet
33. Provide opportunities for interpretation of dance - Provide a classroom dance program that includes different styles of dance from a cultural and historical context
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
Styles of dance and movement
The 8 basic steps
Modern dance
34. As in music - the opposite of allegro; a slower tempo - also a set of practice exercises in class consisting of extensions and balances
Adagio
Dance teaching - key words and counts
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
Play and sing with movement
35. Characteristics: circle form (rhythmic motion within a circle); use of imagery - Gender roles: war and hunting for men - seasons and planting for women; early accompaniment came from drums - harps - flutes - and chants
Body movement
Dance - Prehistory to Beginning of Middle Ages (A.D. 400)
Pirouette
Range
36. Focusing the eyes on one point in the distance in order to keep balance while turning
Dance
Spotting
Focus
Styles of dance and movement
37. Variations on folk dances are found in dance forms of today - including...
Square dancing and barn dancing
Martha Graham and psychodrama
Improvisation
Space
38. Kabuki (traced to primitive rituals; it involves stomping - elaborate costumes - is male only - and is still current)
Space between dancers
Allegro
Attitude
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
39. Dancing evolved from pageants and processions of the period
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
Renaissance (1400-1600)
Modern dance
Dance - Prehistory to Beginning of Middle Ages (A.D. 400)
40. A 'passing' position in which the foot passes by the knee of the supporting leg - When this position is held - as in pirouettes - with the foot of the working leg resting against the knee of the supporting leg - it is known as retire
Syncopation
Passe
Native Americans
Syncopation
41. 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
Maypole dance
Pas de deux
Pathway
Syncopation
42. Countable patterns
Rhythm
Meter
Degree of Energy
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) China
43. Number of beats grouped together e.g. 3/4 or 2/4 or 6/8
George Balanchine (director of the New York City Ballet) and modern American ballet
Range (of movement)
Meter
Force
44. In theatre chorus; also the festival of Dionysus
Interactions between dancers
Body movement
Elevation
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
45. A leap from one leg to the other in which the working leg is kicked or thrown away from the body and into the air; the pose achieved in the air differs - a does the direction the leap takes
Grand jete
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
Late 20th Century
Theatrical dance
46. Quality of energy: sustained (smooth) - suspended (light) - swing (under - curve) - sway (over - curve) - collapsed (loose) - percussive (sharp) - or vibrate (shudder) - Degree of energy: strong - weak - heavy - light - dynamic - static - flowing - o
Revolutionary aspects of early modern dance
Framework for dance activity instruction
Elements of dance: Force
Kinds of Levels
47. 1. Rhythm 2. Tempo 3. Beat 4. Meter 5. Syncopation 6. Rhapsodic Rhythms
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
Play and sing with movement
Minuet
Nonlocomotor
48. Based upon the subjective interpretation of internalized feelings - emotions - and moods - Unlike formal ballet - this is often unstructured and makes deliberate use of gravity and body weight to enhance movement - It also encourages students to expr
Modern dance choreography
Tempo
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
The 8 basic steps
49. Walking - running - leaping - jumping - hopping - galloping - skipping - and sliding (Chasse)
Space
Elements of dance
The 8 basic steps
Grand jete
50. Growth of contemporary dance - post - modernism in the 1960s; movement toward simplicity and a less sophisticated technique; 'No' manifesto - a frequent rejection of costumes and stories
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Late 20th Century
Dance post -1960s
Beat