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Dance Basics
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performing-arts
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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. This celebrated teacher founded the jazz dance world congress
gus giordano
george balanchine
hinge
touch
2. He was a celebrated choreographer and the first male dance for the graham company
erick hawkins
savion glover
jump
flexion and extension
3. Small - quick jumps in place such as changements - temps leves - and assembles
extension of the working leg
matt mattox
petit allegro
mesomorph
4. A type of dance that concentrates of footwork and rhythm. This type of dance grew out of American popular dancing - with significant roots in African American - Irish and english clogging traditions.
degage
economic development
social dance
tap dance
5. The size of the movement is increased or decreased
ectomorph
time
augmentation/diminution
turns at center
6. A position of the body in space - such as curved - straight - angular - twisted - symmetrical - asymmetrical - etc.
wring
free dance
shape
master juba lane
7. Tap dancers that are part of the jazz musical tradition such as bill bojangles robinson - sammy davis jr. - gregory hines and savion glover
rhythm tap
george balanchine
kinesthetic awareness
abduction
8. This broadway and hollywood choreographer did the film version of west side story
jerome robbins
aerobic exercise
hinge
modern dance
9. Succession of tones set to a particular rhythm that serves as the voice in music
cumulative canons
brush/scuff
3/4
melody
10. This is a repeated grouping of accented beats
kinesphere
meter
syncopation
action/reaction
11. Combination: sudden time/direct space/strong weight
jerome robbins
punch
katherine dunham
jack cole
12. This employs mental visualization of carefull devised imagery with tactile input to enhance coordination of movement and adjust habitual posture and movement habits. if one can see efficient and aligned movement - one can achieve it
transitions
ideokinesis
reverance
matt mattox
13. They codified many standard ballet rules still used today
Beauchamps & Noverre
angular oppositions
incorporation
fifth position
14. He was a broadway and hollywood tap and jazz dancer - as well as a movie star
the changement and the sautes
vaganova method
developpe
gene kelly
15. The inability of dancers to maintain their spacing during a group sequence most likely indicates a lack of
promenade - turns - lifts - leaps
eversion
kinesthetic awareness
flexion
16. The degree of ease or continuousness of a movement from initiation to completion
savion glover
flow
rhythm
overuse of a tendon
17. Striking the floor with an immediate release; can be done with the heel or the ball of the foot
Catherine de Medici
body knowledge
tap
broadway or show tap
18. The action of straightening a joint or the action of increasing the angle between tow levers
action/reaction
paul taylor
extension
slap
19. Late modern dance technique developed through an effortless free flow technique that released tension in the body through an emphasis on weight - placement - impulse - immediacy and movement dynamics
alexander technique
repetition
erick hawkins
Mikhail Fokine
20. He was a broadway/hollywood hoofer and actor who ushered in the tap revival of the 1980s
gregory hines
jazz dance
third position
adagio
21. To develop or grow - drawing the working foot up the standing leg and then extending it outward
repetition
developpe
fourth position
rhythm tap
22. In order to develop a dancer's endurance for a long performance - a teacher would recommend
aerobic exercise
partnering/group skills
sammy davis jr
unison
23. Which of the following dance steps is most advanced? plie - degage - entrechat - tendu
entrechat
feldenkrais
in all directions
canon
24. Outward rotation; turning a limb outward - toward the back of the body
Kinesthetics
erick hawkins
eversion
cecchetti method
25. Forward brush followed by a backward brush
modern
a contact improvisation exercise
simultaneous canons
shuffle
26. Where is the apron of the stage located
vaganova method
Catherine de Medici
at the front
transition
27. These denishawn students produced the first modern dance performance and established the humphrey technique
promenade - turns - lifts - leaps
Bob Fosse
doris humphrey and charles weidman
Diaghilev
28. Refers to the length of time a movement takes - from initiation to completion
action/reaction
time
the changement and the sautes
Butoh
29. A dance teacher would most likely suggest that a student practice Pilates exercises in order to
hop
partnering/group skills
improve muscle strength
ball change
30. These brothers were famous in vaudeville - on the jazz circuit and in hollywood for their daring acrobatic style
rhythm
punch
bartenieff fundamentals
harold and fayard nicholas
31. Modern dance technique that transformed everyday movement in to the absurd or dramatic
charles weidman
jazz dance
melody
cumulative canons
32. The movement is performed backwards
retrograde
a contact improvisation exercise
free dance
flow
33. Tap dancers that focus on design and dance aspect of tapping such as fred astaire - gene kelly and ann miller
broadway or show tap
weight
shape
frontal plane
34. A state of equilibrium referring to the balance of weight or the spatial arrangement of bodies.
katherine dunham
martha graham
balance
ruth st. denis
35. Leaving the ground and landing on the same foot
space
hop
flap
rhythm tap
36. This legendary tap dance partner of charles hone coles also worked as a choreographer for artists with the motown record label
loie fuller and isadora duncan
unison
choreography
cholly atkins
37. They were the progenitors of modern dance
loie fuller and isadora duncan
fourth position
weight
Direction
38. Modern jazz style that is an exploratory style. mixes in ballet
cecchetti method
gus giordano
cholly atkins and coles
partnering/group skills
39. The action of bending a joint or the action of decreasing the angle between two levers
Luigi
flexion
polyrhythm
shape
40. Leaving the ground and landing on the other foot
syncopation
jump
Catherine de Medici
ball and socket joint
41. Movement created spontaneously - which ranges from freeform to highly structured environments - always including an element of chance.
interdisciplinary
gus giordano
improvisation
modern dance
42. A movement is made part of another movement
unity
incorporation
3/4
endomorph
43. All performers begin at the same time but at different starting points within the same phrase
hinge
feldenkrais
at the front
simultaneous canons
44. The pelvis is pressed forcefully forward
pelvic thrusts
flap
hop
sagittal plane
45. Forward brush followed by a touch
ted shawn
slap
developpe
rhythm tap
46. Four main movements in the pas de deux
harold and fayard nicholas
savion glover
adagio
promenade - turns - lifts - leaps
47. Tendonitis is typically caused by
pilates
brush/scuff
movement of the arms
overuse of a tendon
48. A particular kind or style of dance - such as - ballet - jazz - modern - folk - tap - hip-hop - etc.
unison
ectomorph
Direction
genre
49. Combination: sustained time/direct space/strong weight
assessing complex assignments
ruth st. denis
press
degage
50. If one were to eliminate the jumping elements from the combination which steps would be eliminated
partnering/group skills
tendu
frontal plane
the changement and the sautes