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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. 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
Improvisation
Cultural dances
Dallet evolution
Pathway
2. Wide/Narrow - Big/Little
Dance teaching - key words and counts
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Java
Rhapsodic Rhythms
Range (of movement)
3. 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
Focus
Attitude
Renaissance (1400-1600)
4. 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).
Dance teaching - floor pattern
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
Flamenco dance
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
5. A rhythmic pattern produced when a deliberate pattern is upset
Modern dance
18th and 19th Centuries
Religious or ceremonial dance
Syncopation
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
Combined locomotor
Play and sing with movement
Other theatrical production
Movement materials
7. Feeling the dance movements of others in one's own muscles
Pathway
Kinesthetic awareness
Combined locomotor
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Egypt
8. (Staying in one place 'on spot'): stretching - pushing - twisting - bending - kicking - sinking - or curling
Nonlocomotor
Elements of dance: Force
Dallet evolution
Degree of Energy
9. Pavane - Galliard (from the Renaissance period) - The minuet - Charleston - Twist - Disco - Hip - hop - Lambada
Popular historical dances that are often used today
Spotting
Nonlocomotor
Framework for dance activity instruction
10. Wide - narrow - big - or little
Allegro
Pathway
Choreography
Range
11. Polka - square dances - historic dances
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
Rhapsodic rhythms
Current examples of folk dances in the 20th century
Styles of dance and movement
12. 1. Direction 2. Form and Shape 3. Level 4. Range 5. Pathway 6. Focus
Allegro
Kinds of Levels
George Balanchine (director of the New York City Ballet) and modern American ballet
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Egypt
13. Countable patterns
Adagio
Maypole dance
Rhythm
Other theatrical production
14. All - inclusive term meaning the aesthetics of movement - the organization of moves with a beginning - middle - and end in sequential form
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Java
Dance
Alignment
Dallet evolution
15. 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
Social dance styles
18th and 19th Centuries
Other theatrical production
Martha Graham and psychodrama
16. As in music - the opposite of allegro; a slower tempo - also a set of practice exercises in class consisting of extensions and balances
Promenade
Classical
Adagio
Space between dancers
17. Includes locomotor (moving from one place to another) and axial (contained movement around an axis of the body)
Dance activities should begin with these
Force
Body movement
Virtuoso dancing
18. Formalized hand movements (e.g. - Hindu dance - the oldest world dance)
Early 20th Century Revolutionary aspects of Ballets Russes (Russia)
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Indi
Arabesque
Historical forms of dance
19. Angular - rounded - twisted - bent - crooked - symmetrical - or asymmetrical
Arabesque
Form and shape
Other theatrical production
Rumba flamenco
20. A form of cultural dance - originated from medieval times when townspeople danced to celebrate - e.g. Medieval 'carolers'
Pathway
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Egypt
Postmodern dance
Folk dance
21. Warm - up exercises and Body awareness exercises
George Balanchine (director of the New York City Ballet) and modern American ballet
Dance activities should begin with these
Nonlocomotor
Attitude
22. 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
Choreography
Forc
Romantic Era
Elements of dance: Time
23. 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
Movements involved in the space element of dance
Body movement
Elements should be found in all dance instruction
24. 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
Characteristics of folk dance
Elevation
Syncopation
Dance - pointe
25. 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
Combined locomotor
Elements of dance: Levels
Religious or ceremonial dance
The 8 basic steps
26. 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
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Java
Dance teaching - key words and counts
Line
27. Even or uneven beat
Tempo
Beat
Form and shape
Maypole dance
28. (Often traditional folk steps): two - step - paddle - grapevine - step - hop - chug - and spinning
Range
Abstraction
Lifts
Combined locomotor
29. 1. Rhythm 2. Tempo 3. Beat 4. Meter 5. Syncopation 6. Rhapsodic Rhythms
Creative movement
George Balanchine (director of the New York City Ballet) and modern American ballet
Dance - Prehistory to Beginning of Middle Ages (A.D. 400)
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
30. 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)
Well - known musical productions
Improvisation
Dance teaching - floor pattern
31. 1. Space 2. Time 3. Levels (dynamics) 4. Force (energy)
Elements should be found in all dance instruction
Syncopation
Renaissance (1400-1600)
4 Elements of dance movements
32. Refers to dances in which socializing is the main focus; therefore - a dance partner is essential
Syncopation
Passe
Social dance
Native Americans
33. High - medium - or low
Arabesque
Combined locomotor
Level
Rhythm
34. A line along which a person or part of a person moves - Patterns on/in the Floor - Elevated or Air
Rhapsodic Rhythms
Pathway
Modern dance choreography
Attitude
35. Ballet - jazz - and tap
Rumba flamenco
Line
Well - known musical productions
Beat
36. 'To twirl or spin'; a turn on one foot that can be executed outward - away from the body - or inward - toward the body
Abstraction
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Modern dance
Pirouette
37. 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)
Early 20th Century Revolutionary aspects of Ballets Russes (Russia)
Dance activities should begin with these
18th and 19th Centuries
Arabesque
38. Provide opportunities for interpretation of dance - Provide a classroom dance program that includes different styles of dance from a cultural and historical context
Combined locomotor
Play and sing with movement
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
Theatrical dance
39. Gaze - Floor - Away
Dallet evolution
Focus
Elements should be found in all dance instruction
The 8 basic steps
40. Dancing on the toes
Line
Pointe
Late 20th Century
Level
41. Ceremonial dance with each character having specific hand movement - and martial (war) dancing
Body movement
Promenade
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) China
Pathway
42. Warm - up - skill building - expression via classroom dance activities
Alignment
Ballet
Syncopation
Elements should be found in all dance instruction
43. Floor - elevated - or air patterns
Postmodern dance
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Virtuoso dancing
Pathway
44. 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
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
Improvisation
Forc
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
45. Movement associated with gods/funerals
Forc
Virtuoso dancing
Social dance styles
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Egypt
46. 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
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
Lifts
Abstraction
47. 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
The 8 basic steps
Ballet
Martha Graham and psychodrama
Extension
48. Posture - Balance - Flexibility - Strength - Coordination
Dance teaching - key words and counts
Elevation
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
Abstraction
49. The ability to get up into the air and remain there long enough to perform various movements or poses
Social dance styles
The 8 basic steps
Elevation
Pirouette
50. Music to accompany specific - technical ballet steps; a theatrical art form developed
Dallet evolution
Native Americans
Movement materials
Well - known musical productions