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CSET Domain 1 Performing Arts Dance
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dance
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Focusing the eyes on one point in the distance in order to keep balance while turning
Flamenco dance
Martha Graham and psychodrama
Ballet
Spotting
2. Immediate area surrounding the body; the area in which bodies can move at all levels
Space
Individual - group - or class
Pas de deux
Characteristics of folk dance
3. 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.
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Java
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
The 8 basic steps
Native Americans
4. In this leap - the dancer turns halfway in midair to land facing the direction in which the movement started
Adagio
Minuet
4 Elements of dance movements
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
5. 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
Range (of movement)
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
Pas de deux
Pathway
6. Dancing on the toes
Lifts
Minuet
Body movement
Pointe
7. Space - Time - Levels (dynamics)- Force (energy) - Locomotor (traveling through space)
Modern dance choreography
Focus
Elements of dance
Social dance styles
8. A rhythmic pattern produced when a deliberate pattern is upset
George Balanchine (director of the New York City Ballet) and modern American ballet
Kinesthetic awareness
Syncopation
Focus
9. Rock 'n' roll; MTV; hip - hop; ballroom dancing (tango)
Theatrical dance
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
Romantic Era
Social dance and mass culture
10. 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
Beat
Body movement
Level
Maypole dance
11. 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
Syncopation
Square dancing and barn dancing
Elements of dance: Force
Styles of dance and movement
12. Speed: fast or slow
Tempo
Elements should be found in all dance instruction
Attitude
Space between dancers
13. Posture - Balance - Flexibility - Strength - Coordination
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
Syncopation
Abstraction
Meter
14. Strong/Weak - Heavy/Light - Dynamic/Static - Flowing/Tense
Square dancing and barn dancing
Elements of dance: Force
Force
Degree of Energy
15. Polka - square dances - historic dances
Quality of Energy
Nonlocomotor
Current examples of folk dances in the 20th century
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
16. Feeling the dance movements of others in one's own muscles
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) China
Space
Kinesthetic awareness
Era of Romanticism (early 1800s)
17. 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 teaching - variety - exposure
Individual - group - or class
Arabesque
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Rome
18. To cue the steps and directional changes - and to alert students (e.g. - 'ready'); this helps students keep the main rhythmic pattern and encourages them to gain a sense of the whole
Dance - pointe
Range (of movement)
Dance teaching - key words and counts
Force
19. High - medium - or low
Level
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
Flamenco dance
Promenade
20. In theatre chorus; also the festival of Dionysus
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
Elements of dance: Time
Religious or ceremonial dance
Rhapsodic rhythms
21. 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
Lifts
Grand jete
Kinds of Levels
Pathway
22. Rhythm: countable patterns - Tempo: fast or slow speed - Beat: even or uneven - Meter: 2/4 time - 3/4 time - etc.
Renaissance (1400-1600)
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Elements of dance: Time
Force
23. A formal aristocratic court dance developed at the end of the rennaisance period
Folk dance
Adagio
Minuet
Pirouette
24. 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
Kinds of Levels
Degree of Energy
Dance - Prehistory to Beginning of Middle Ages (A.D. 400)
Social dance and mass culture
25. Forward/Backward - Up/Down - Sideways (horizontal or vertical) - Diagonal - Straight - Circle - Out/In - Zigzag - Spiral
Grand jete
Range
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
Direction
26. Gaze - Floor - Away
Focus
Adagio
Modern dance
Improvisation
27. Sequences - motifs - and phrases developed as the choreographed dance
Tempo
Late 20th Century
Movement materials
Level
28. (Staying in one place 'on spot'): stretching - pushing - twisting - bending - kicking - sinking - or curling
Nonlocomotor
Well - known musical productions
Dallet evolution
Popular historical dances that are often used today
29. An adagio movement in which the dancer pivots completely around on one foot while maintaining a pose with the working leg
Nonlocomotor
Social dance styles
Promenade
Level
30. Quality of Energy - Degree of Energy
Ballet
Classical
Forc
Well - known musical productions
31. Formalized hand movements (e.g. - Hindu dance - the oldest world dance)
Rumba flamenco
Range
Dance teaching - floor pattern
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Indi
32. Locomotor - Nonlocomotor - Combined Locomotor
Warm - up exercises should address these 5 skills/abilities
Form and shape
Nonlocomotor
Movements involved in the space element of dance
33. (Often traditional folk steps): two - step - paddle - grapevine - step - hop - chug - and spinning
Rhythm
Combined locomotor
Form and Shape
Degree of Energy
34. 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
18th and 19th Centuries
Range (of movement)
Virtuoso dancing
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
35. The way in which various parts of the dancer's body are in line with one another while the dancer is moving
Virtuoso dancing
Extension
Promenade
Alignment
36. Dance movement that is primary and nonfunctional - with an emphasis on body mastery for expressive and communicative purposes
Dance - Prehistory to Beginning of Middle Ages (A.D. 400)
Creative movement
Rhythm
Interactions between dancers
37. 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
Late 20th Century
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Greece
Minuet
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
38. A line along which a person or part of a person moves - Patterns on/in the Floor - Elevated or Air
Square dancing and barn dancing
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
Native Americans
Pathway
39. 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
Spotting
Dance teaching - variety - exposure
Dance teaching - floor pattern
40. Countable patterns
Rhythm
Authentic folk dancing in its purest form
Ballet
Attitude
41. 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
Religious or ceremonial dance
Range (of movement)
Passe
Lifts
42. On the ball of the foot - or half toe
Concepts regarding the time element of dance
Dance - pointe
Native Americans
Kinds of Levels
43. Ballet developed throughout Europe; this led to ___________ - expressive capacity of the body - pointe footwork and the heel - less shoe
Play and sing with movement
Virtuoso dancing
Syncopation
Early 20th Century Revolutionary aspects of Ballets Russes (Russia)
44. Angular - rounded - twisted - bent - crooked - symmetrical - or asymmetrical
Revolutionary aspects of early modern dance
Native Americans
George Balanchine (director of the New York City Ballet) and modern American ballet
Form and shape
45. Stretched the boundaries of classical ballet; new movements ('turnout')
Well - known musical productions
Early 20th Century Revolutionary aspects of Ballets Russes (Russia)
Dance teaching - key words and counts
Grand jete en tournan (tour jete)
46. 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
Dance - Prehistory to Beginning of Middle Ages (A.D. 400)
Characteristics of folk dance
4 Elements of dance movements
The 8 basic steps
47. 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
Elevation
Renaissance (1400-1600)
Folk dance
18th and 19th Centuries
48. From the musical term - this refers to quick or lively movements
Meter
Allegro
Historic evolution (use of dance movement) Japan
Degree of Energy
49. 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
Attitude
Alignment
Pointe
50. Movement without previous planning
Rhapsodic Rhythms
Improvisation
Alignment
Modern dance choreography