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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. Rhythm: countable patterns - Tempo: fast or slow speed - Beat: even or uneven - Meter: 2/4 time - 3/4 time - etc.
Adagio
4 Elements of dance movements
Cultural dances
Elements of dance: Time
2. (Often traditional folk steps): two - step - paddle - grapevine - step - hop - chug - and spinning
Nonlocomotor
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Egypt
Promenade
Combined locomotor
3. Posture - Balance - Flexibility - Strength - Coordination
Improvisation
Pirouette
Dance teaching - floor pattern
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
4. 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
Spotting
Cultural dances
Forc
Degree of Energy
5. Direction: forward - backward - up - down - sideways (horizontal or vertical) - diagonal - straight - circle - out - in - zigzag - or spiral
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
Elements of dance: Levels
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Egypt
Abstraction
6. On the ball of the foot - or half toe
Modern dance
Abstraction
Dance - pointe
Rhythm
7. 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)
Nonlocomotor
Arabesque
Allegro
Level
8. (Staying in one place 'on spot'): stretching - pushing - twisting - bending - kicking - sinking - or curling
Social dance styles
Spotting
Nonlocomotor
Late 20th Century
9. Space - Time - Levels (dynamics)- Force (energy) - Locomotor (traveling through space)
Combined locomotor
Dance
Elements of dance
Flamenco dance
10. Broadway and Hollywood shows; a new style of moving with emphasis on speed and mobility; lean body types; importance of the female dancer
Current examples of folk dances in the 20th century
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
George Balanchine (director of the New York City Ballet) and modern American ballet
Rumba flamenco
11. As in music - the opposite of allegro; a slower tempo - also a set of practice exercises in class consisting of extensions and balances
Promenade
Adagio
Focus
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
12. Type of creative dance involving specialized movement techniques; emphasis is on expression and communication
Modern dance
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
Body movement
Elements should be found in all dance instruction
13. 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
Dance - Prehistory to Beginning of Middle Ages (A.D. 400)
Syncopation
Other theatrical production
Space
14. Polka - square dances - historic dances
Elevation
Line
Elements of dance: Time
Current examples of folk dances in the 20th century
15. 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
Space between dancers
Postmodern dance
Historical forms of dance
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
16. 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
Elements should be found in all dance instruction
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
Lifts
Classical
17. In theatre chorus; also the festival of Dionysus
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
Early 20th Century Revolutionary aspects of Ballets Russes (Russia)
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
Syncopation
18. Dancing evolved from pageants and processions of the period
Play and sing with movement
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Renaissance (1400-1600)
4 Elements of dance movements
19. Warm - up exercises and Body awareness exercises
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
Dance activities should begin with these
Postmodern dance
Allegro
20. 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
Level
Rhythm
Lifts
Characteristics of folk dance
21. Born in the 20th century as a result of dancers resisting the rigid structure of classical ballet dance
Nonlocomotor
Modern dance
Framework for dance activity instruction
Elevation
22. Ethno - cultural - kabuki - Russian - and Celtic dance
Dance post -1960s
Other theatrical production
Dance teaching - prep
Individual - group - or class
23. Forward/Backward - Up/Down - Sideways (horizontal or vertical) - Diagonal - Straight - Circle - Out/In - Zigzag - Spiral
Space
Direction
Maypole dance
Beat
24. Strong/Weak - Heavy/Light - Dynamic/Static - Flowing/Tense
Allegro
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
Creative movement
Degree of Energy
25. 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
Improvisation
Framework for dance activity instruction
Choreography
26. 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
Adagio
Pas de deux
Flamenco dance
Modern dance choreography
27. Countable patterns
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
Grand jete
Kinesthetic awareness
Rhythm
28. 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
Degree of Energy
Space
Romantic Era
Rhapsodic Rhythms
29. 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
Framework for dance activity instruction
Meter
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
Range
30. Warm - up - skill building - expression via classroom dance activities
4 Elements of dance movements
Elements should be found in all dance instruction
Romantic Era
Extension
31. Ballet developed throughout Europe; this led to ___________ - expressive capacity of the body - pointe footwork and the heel - less shoe
Barre
Characteristics of folk dance
Modern dance
Virtuoso dancing
32. 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
Virtuoso dancing
Early 20th Century Revolutionary aspects of Ballets Russes (Russia)
Modern dance
Postmodern dance
33. Leader - follower - mirror - unison - or parting)
Martha Graham and psychodrama
Interactions between dancers
Ballet
Well - known musical productions
34. Another popular form of the flamenco that originated in Cuba and Latin America
4 Elements of dance movements
Degree of Energy
Native Americans
Rumba flamenco
35. A line along which a person or part of a person moves - Patterns on/in the Floor - Elevated or Air
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Rome
Pathway
Folk dance
Elevation
36. Music to accompany specific - technical ballet steps; a theatrical art form developed
Syncopation
Adagio
Dallet evolution
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
37. The steps of a dance as put together for performance or the art of composing dances
Form and shape
Styles of dance and movement
Martha Graham and psychodrama
Choreography
38. Movement associated with gods/funerals
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Egypt
Maypole dance
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
Dance activities should begin with these
39. 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
Dance
Rhythm
18th and 19th Centuries
Minuet
40. A round rail attached to the wall horizontally - about 3 1/2 feet above the floor - for dancers to hold during the first half of technique class; it is also used for stretching the legs by placing the feet or legs on it
Folk dance
Barre
Minuet
Range
41. 1. Space 2. Time 3. Levels (dynamics) 4. Force (energy)
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
Nonlocomotor
Line
4 Elements of dance movements
42. A rhythmic pattern produced when a deliberate pattern is upset
Syncopation
Square dancing and barn dancing
Form and Shape
Elements of dance: Time
43. Rhythmic pattern produced when a deliberate pattern is upset - Rhythm produced when beats are displaced such that strong beats become weak and vice versa
Kinds of Levels
Pathway
Syncopation
Form and Shape
44. 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
Framework for dance activity instruction
Elements of dance: Levels
Dance in the Middle Ages (500-1400)
Ballet
45. 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
Range (of movement)
Focus
Revolutionary aspects of early modern dance
Lifts
46. 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.
Spotting
Meter
Degree of Energy
Native Americans
47. 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
Grand jete
Martha Graham and psychodrama
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Egypt
Elements of dance
48. Pavane - Galliard (from the Renaissance period) - The minuet - Charleston - Twist - Disco - Hip - hop - Lambada
Line
Popular historical dances that are often used today
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) China
Social dance
49. An adagio movement in which the dancer pivots completely around on one foot while maintaining a pose with the working leg
Martha Graham and psychodrama
Dance teaching - prep
Promenade
Framework for dance activity instruction
50. 1. Rhythm 2. Tempo 3. Beat 4. Meter 5. Syncopation 6. Rhapsodic Rhythms
Space
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
Theatrical dance
Kinesthetic awareness