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CSET Domain 1 Performing Arts Dance
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Instructions:
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
Abstraction
Postmodern dance
Spotting
Form and Shape
2. Refers to dances in which socializing is the main focus; therefore - a dance partner is essential
Social dance
Adagio
Forc
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
3. A term coined in the 1960s by those who wanted to create movement outside the influences of any of the then - traditional modern dance pioneers - such as Cunningham - Graham - Humphrey - Lim
Dallet evolution
Range (of movement)
Martha Graham and psychodrama
Postmodern dance
4. Floor - elevated - or air patterns
Pathway
Range (of movement)
Force
Elements of dance: Force
5. Polka - square dances - historic dances
Focus
Nonlocomotor
Flamenco dance
Current examples of folk dances in the 20th century
6. 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)
Martha Graham and psychodrama
Choreography
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
Styles of dance and movement
7. In this leap - the dancer turns halfway in midair to land facing the direction in which the movement started
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Rumba flamenco
Dance
Revolutionary aspects of early modern dance
8. 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
Elevation
Nonlocomotor
Styles of dance and movement
Pirouette
9. Music to accompany specific - technical ballet steps; a theatrical art form developed
Dallet evolution
Other theatrical production
Promenade
George Balanchine (director of the New York City Ballet) and modern American ballet
10. 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
18th and 19th Centuries
Social dance and mass culture
Minuet
Forc
11. The essence of an idea applied to the art of movement
Movement materials
Arabesque
Abstraction
Range (of movement)
12. Leader - follower - mirror - unison - or parting)
Virtuoso dancing
Interactions between dancers
Dance teaching - floor pattern
Promenade
13. As in music - the opposite of allegro; a slower tempo - also a set of practice exercises in class consisting of extensions and balances
Creative movement
Adagio
Pirouette
Syncopation
14. 'To twirl or spin'; a turn on one foot that can be executed outward - away from the body - or inward - toward the body
Line
Flamenco dance
Promenade
Pirouette
15. Posture - Balance - Flexibility - Strength - Coordination
Quality of Energy
The 8 basic steps
Elements of dance: Force
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
16. 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
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Java
Kinds of Levels
Combined locomotor
Cultural dances
17. Pantomime/dance expression
Lifts
Form and shape
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Rome
Elements of dance: Levels
18. 1. Direction 2. Form and Shape 3. Level 4. Range 5. Pathway 6. Focus
Kinds of Levels
Cultural dances
Lifts
Classical
19. Born in the 20th century as a result of dancers resisting the rigid structure of classical ballet dance
Pas de deux
Characteristics of folk dance
Dance activities should begin with these
Modern dance
20. Countable patterns
Rhythm
Pirouette
Early 20th Century Revolutionary aspects of Ballets Russes (Russia)
Pas de deux
21. Feeling the dance movements of others in one's own muscles
Space
Kinesthetic awareness
Adagio
Syncopation
22. 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
Attitude
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
Syncopation
Renaissance (1400-1600)
23. A part of pas de deux in which one dancer is lifted off the ground by another
Lifts
Popular historical dances that are often used today
Elements of dance: Levels
Elements of dance
24. Walking - running - leaping - jumping - hopping - galloping - skipping - and sliding (Chasse)
Virtuoso dancing
Adagio
Elements of dance: Force
The 8 basic steps
25. 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
18th and 19th Centuries
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
Dance teaching - key words and counts
26. Speed: fast or slow
Level
Dance post -1960s
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
Tempo
27. 1. Rhythm 2. Tempo 3. Beat 4. Meter 5. Syncopation 6. Rhapsodic Rhythms
Dance post -1960s
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
Interactions between dancers
Force
28. Immediate area surrounding the body; the area in which bodies can move at all levels
Space
Allegro
Movements involved in the space element of dance
Promenade
29. The way in which various parts of the dancer's body are in line with one another while the dancer is moving
Social dance and mass culture
Alignment
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
Abstraction
30. A formal aristocratic court dance developed at the end of the rennaisance period
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
Form and shape
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Minuet
31. Kabuki (traced to primitive rituals; it involves stomping - elaborate costumes - is male only - and is still current)
Level
Dance - Prehistory to Beginning of Middle Ages (A.D. 400)
Force
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
32. Another popular form of the flamenco that originated in Cuba and Latin America
Beat
Elevation
Rumba flamenco
Late 20th Century
33. Dancing on the toes
Pointe
Individual - group - or class
Form and shape
Direction
34. Warm - up - skill building - expression via classroom dance activities
The 8 basic steps
Pirouette
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
Elements should be found in all dance instruction
35. Non - metric rhythms e.g. breath - water - or wind
George Balanchine (director of the New York City Ballet) and modern American ballet
Dance teaching - prep
Square dancing and barn dancing
Rhapsodic Rhythms
36. (Staying in one place 'on spot'): stretching - pushing - twisting - bending - kicking - sinking - or curling
Elements should be found in all dance instruction
Nonlocomotor
Choreography
Styles of dance and movement
37. Literally - 'a step for two'; this refers to a specific codified form that is choreographed in many classical ballets; this is also used to refer to any section of a dance performed by two dancers together
Late 20th Century
Pas de deux
Pathway
Rhapsodic Rhythms
38. More eclectic; ballet and ethnic used in the same performance; all - male groups; intense theatrical effects in lighting - costume - and sets
Individual - group - or class
Late 20th Century
Dance post -1960s
Pointe
39. Appreciated the qualities of the individual; primitive expression and emotion; 'new freedom' of movement; choreography of Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham and their harsh break from restrictive classical ballet and tutu; broadening the minds of the p
Pirouette
Dance activities should begin with these
Revolutionary aspects of early modern dance
Elements of dance: Force
40. An adagio movement in which the dancer pivots completely around on one foot while maintaining a pose with the working leg
Extension
Romantic Era
Promenade
18th and 19th Centuries
41. 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
Ballet
Meter
Level
Forc
42. Raising the leg to a straightened position with the foot very high above the ground; the ability to lift and hold the leg in position of the ground
Native Americans
Extension
Syncopation
Other theatrical production
43. Pavane - Galliard (from the Renaissance period) - The minuet - Charleston - Twist - Disco - Hip - hop - Lambada
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Rome
Popular historical dances that are often used today
Allegro
Social dance and mass culture
44. 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
Tempo
Arabesque
Flamenco dance
Attitude
45. Sequences - motifs - and phrases developed as the choreographed dance
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
Elements of dance: Time
Grand jete
Movement materials
46. The steps of a dance as put together for performance or the art of composing dances
Arabesque
Elevation
Nonlocomotor
Choreography
47. All - inclusive term meaning the aesthetics of movement - the organization of moves with a beginning - middle - and end in sequential form
Range (of movement)
Dance
Level
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
48. Non - metric (e.g. - breath - water - or wind)
Combined locomotor
Dance teaching - floor pattern
Level
Rhapsodic rhythms
49. A rhythmic pattern produced when a deliberate pattern is upset
Folk dance
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) China
Cultural dances
Syncopation
50. 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
Meter
Dance teaching - prep
Historical forms of dance
Dance teaching - variety - exposure