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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. Ballet developed throughout Europe; this led to ___________ - expressive capacity of the body - pointe footwork and the heel - less shoe
Lifts
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
Forc
Virtuoso dancing
2. Choreography played a significant role in many cultural events throughout history - The origins of dance show that dance was created and performed in celebrations - rituals - and rites of passage - Many cultures consider dance a universal spiritual l
Improvisation
Passe
Religious or ceremonial dance
Native Americans
3. Focusing the eyes on one point in the distance in order to keep balance while turning
Focus
Syncopation
Spotting
Extension
4. Pavane - Galliard (from the Renaissance period) - The minuet - Charleston - Twist - Disco - Hip - hop - Lambada
Popular historical dances that are often used today
Promenade
Abstraction
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Indi
5. Non - metric (e.g. - breath - water - or wind)
Rhapsodic rhythms
Flamenco dance
Passe
Elements of dance: Levels
6. Primary school children love to play and sing with movement in the simple sing - along dances of London Bridge - Hokey Pokey - Ring Around the Rosie - The Farmer in the Dell - B.I.N.G.O. - Pop Goes the Weasel - and Skip to My Lou
Syncopation
Body movement
Early 20th Century Revolutionary aspects of Ballets Russes (Russia)
Play and sing with movement
7. 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
Allegro
Elements of dance: Force
Social dance and mass culture
8. Ethno - cultural - kabuki - Russian - and Celtic dance
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Egypt
Other theatrical production
Passe
Alignment
9. Based on music - songs - dialogue - and dance - Audiences often experience it in the form of musical theatre productions
Level
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
Theatrical dance
Late 20th Century
10. Wide - narrow - big - or little
Styles of dance and movement
Range
Choreography
Syncopation
11. Sequences - motifs - and phrases developed as the choreographed dance
Movement materials
Postmodern dance
Kinds of Levels
Dance teaching - floor pattern
12. 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
Pathway
Pas de deux
Revolutionary aspects of early modern dance
Dance teaching - key words and counts
13. An adagio movement in which the dancer pivots completely around on one foot while maintaining a pose with the working leg
Promenade
Barre
Focus
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
14. The steps of a dance as put together for performance or the art of composing dances
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
Choreography
Classical
Promenade
15. Kabuki (traced to primitive rituals; it involves stomping - elaborate costumes - is male only - and is still current)
Late 20th Century
Syncopation
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
Direction
16. Forward/Backward - Up/Down - Sideways (horizontal or vertical) - Diagonal - Straight - Circle - Out/In - Zigzag - Spiral
Direction
Beat
Body movement
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
17. The ability to get up into the air and remain there long enough to perform various movements or poses
Grand jete
Elements of dance
Well - known musical productions
Elevation
18. Warm - up - skill building - expression via classroom dance activities
Cultural dances
Elements should be found in all dance instruction
Form and shape
4 Elements of dance movements
19. Movement without previous planning
Martha Graham and psychodrama
Improvisation
Classical
Modern dance
20. 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)
Passe
Improvisation
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
Other theatrical production
21. 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
Well - known musical productions
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Indi
Dance teaching - prep
Focus
22. More eclectic; ballet and ethnic used in the same performance; all - male groups; intense theatrical effects in lighting - costume - and sets
Choreography
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
Grand jete
Dance post -1960s
23. 'To twirl or spin'; a turn on one foot that can be executed outward - away from the body - or inward - toward the body
4 Elements of dance movements
Rhapsodic rhythms
Pirouette
Social dance and mass culture
24. Born in the 20th century as a result of dancers resisting the rigid structure of classical ballet dance
Dance - pointe
Social dance styles
Barre
Modern dance
25. Immediate area surrounding the body; the area in which bodies can move at all levels
Elements of dance: Levels
Space
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) China
Other theatrical production
26. Determine appropriate age - related expectations for a safe - enjoyable classroom activity
Pirouette
Pathway
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Framework for dance activity instruction
27. 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
Forc
Passe
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
Improvisation
28. Countable patterns
Combined locomotor
Other theatrical production
Rhythm
Revolutionary aspects of early modern dance
29. Have the dancers walk through the floor pattern. Then combine the steps with the floor pattern - first without music - and then with music (remember that not all dances have a set floor pattern).
Improvisation
Dance teaching - floor pattern
Theatrical dance
Arabesque
30. All - inclusive term meaning the aesthetics of movement - the organization of moves with a beginning - middle - and end in sequential form
18th and 19th Centuries
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Dance
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
31. Broadway and Hollywood shows; a new style of moving with emphasis on speed and mobility; lean body types; importance of the female dancer
George Balanchine (director of the New York City Ballet) and modern American ballet
Choreography
Dance teaching - floor pattern
Pathway
32. 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
Arabesque
Individual - group - or class
Spotting
33. High - medium - or low
18th and 19th Centuries
Dance teaching - floor pattern
Level
Choreography
34. 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
Kinds of Levels
Maypole dance
Dance teaching - key words and counts
35. Another popular form of the flamenco that originated in Cuba and Latin America
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
Other theatrical production
Rumba flamenco
Combined locomotor
36. 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
Combined locomotor
Social dance
Elements of dance: Force
18th and 19th Centuries
37. Movement associated with gods/funerals
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Egypt
Elevation
Dance - Prehistory to Beginning of Middle Ages (A.D. 400)
Dance - pointe
38. Dancing on the toes
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
Abstraction
Rhapsodic rhythms
Pointe
39. Solo - duet - or ensemble
Individual - group - or class
Range (of movement)
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
40. Ballet - jazz - and tap
Dance activities should begin with these
Well - known musical productions
Quality of Energy
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
41. 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
The 8 basic steps
Attitude
Dance activities should begin with these
42. 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
Elements of dance: Force
Rumba flamenco
Abstraction
Tempo
43. Locomotor - Nonlocomotor - Combined Locomotor
Degree of Energy
Elements of dance: Levels
Rumba flamenco
Movements involved in the space element of dance
44. A rhythmic pattern produced when a deliberate pattern is upset
Early 20th Century Revolutionary aspects of Ballets Russes (Russia)
Adagio
Syncopation
Theatrical dance
45. High -- Medium -- Low - Might refer to a dancer's head
Kinesthetic awareness
Maypole dance
Level
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) China
46. 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
Interactions between dancers
Elements of dance: Levels
Pas de deux
Meter
47. Walking - running - leaping - jumping - hopping - galloping - skipping - and sliding (Chasse)
Late 20th Century
Range (of movement)
Postmodern dance
The 8 basic steps
48. (Staying in one place 'on spot'): stretching - pushing - twisting - bending - kicking - sinking - or curling
Virtuoso dancing
Late 20th Century
Nonlocomotor
Degree of Energy
49. 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
Romantic Era
Passe
Choreography
Dance - Prehistory to Beginning of Middle Ages (A.D. 400)
50. 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
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
Other theatrical production
Modern dance
Syncopation