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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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1. He was a broadway and hollywood tap and jazz dancer - as well as a movie star
extension
modern dance
improving flexibility
gene kelly
2. Modern dance technique that involves a dramatic contraction and release - emphasizes weight moving into the floor and a spiral image for off-center or off-balance movement
matt mattox
press
promenade - turns - lifts - leaps
martha graham
3. The intentional quality of the path taken by a body part or a body through space during a movement. direct or indirect
action/reaction
Marius Petipa
vertically
space
4. Placing the ball of the foot on the floor with a weight change
narrative
King Louis XIV
shuffle
step
5. She was a hollywood dancer who appeared in 42nd street and other films
third position
jazz
dynamics
ruby keeler
6. All performers begin at the same time but at different starting points within the same phrase
rhythm tap
simultaneous canons
head whip
rond de jambe
7. Celebrated teacher of jazz technique
snap
matt mattox
line dancing
Giselle
8. The original french form of classical ballet from Russia
time
work
vaganova method
rhythm
9. This practice employs repetitive motions derived from fundamental gestures and natural movements to increase awareness of habitual movement patterns and release tension left over from old injuries and habits in order to expand range of motion in the
rotation
space
improving flexibility
feldenkrais
10. Four main movements in the pas de deux
slash
promenade - turns - lifts - leaps
alexander technique
space
11. Placing the entire foot on the floor with a weight change
augmentation/diminution
stamp
turns from corner
gene kelly
12. Feet heel of one foot against the instep of the other foot toes turned out arms: arm corresponding with front foot overhead arem corresponding with back foot open to the side as in second position
third position
interdisciplinary
genre
ballet
13. This involves placing the limbs into positions so that the resulting combination of angles is unusual.
Giselle
ruby keeler
George Balanchine
angular oppositions
14. Leaving the ground and landing on the same foot
tempo
hop
isolated movement
rhythm
15. The action of turning a ball-and-socket joint; circular movement around a central axis
contrast
rotation
float
hyperextension
16. This broadway and hollywood performer and choreographer introduced African and caribbean dance styles
pathways
loie fuller and isadora duncan
katherine dunham
pelvic thrusts
17. The element of dance involving rhythm - phrasing - tempo - accent and duration. Time can be metered as in music or based on body rhythms such as breath - emotions - and heartbeat.
aerobic exercise
time
Marius Petipa
bartenieff fundamentals
18. This is a repeated grouping of accented beats
flexion
martha graham
meter
George Balanchine
19. Reach space or personal space.
sagittal plane
syncopation
kinesphere
King Louis XIV
20. 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
developpe
ruth st. denis
flick
21. Combination: sudden time/indirect space/light weight
jack cole
cumulative canons
slash
flick
22. The rhythmic pattern of the movements is varied
brush/scuff
martha graham
rhythm
jazz dance
23. Modern dance technique that appears in the lateral T shape his dancers assume - a one-leg balance with the torso tilted off-center and the other leg extended to the side in a counterbalance
loie fuller and isadora duncan
pilates
pirouette
lester horton
24. The sagittal plane divides the body
second position
vertically
Direction
jerome robbins
25. To extend or stretch - pointing the toes
grand allegro
flow
space
tendu
26. The pelvis is pressed forcefully forward
Catherine de Medici
modern dance
mesomorph
pelvic thrusts
27. These include pirouette and fouette turns - in which the dancer remains in one place on the floor
time
master juba lane
turns at center
unison
28. Tendonitis is typically caused by
head whip
press
overuse of a tendon
tempo acceleration/deceleration
29. Kazua ohno and tatsumi hijikata developed
Direction
3/4
tap
Butoh
30. Sturdy body with strong dense musculature - lack of flexibility
jump
fourth position
mesomorph
katherine dunham
31. Which of the following dance steps is most advanced? plie - degage - entrechat - tendu
doris humphrey and charles weidman
entrechat
gus giordano
contrast
32. He was a turn of the century vaudeville hoofer who danced on broadway and in hollywood's shirley temple films
flick
bill bojangles robinson
rhythm
flap
33. The term 'port des bras' refers to
narrative
Beauchamps & Noverre
movement of the arms
merce cunningham
34. The speed of the music or dance
tempo
paul taylor
George Balanchine
Luigi
35. Movements are repeated
degage
cholly atkins and coles
bill bojangles robinson
repetition
36. Which of the following two muscles are used for flexion in dance?
gregory hines
biceps brachii - biceps femoris
stomp
merce cunningham
37. Stretching of the foot along the floor - away from the standing leg
tendu
tap
grand allegro
modern
38. He was a broadway/hollywood hoofer and actor who ushered in the tap revival of the 1980s
fifth position
gregory hines
jazz dance
fourth position
39. Tap dancers that focus on design and dance aspect of tapping such as fred astaire - gene kelly and ann miller
turns at center
modern dance
Kinesthetics
broadway or show tap
40. The ability of the dancer to present their body with confidence and the required energy to communicate movements clearly to an audience.
projection
locomotion
space
sagittal plane
41. Slow port-de-bras and bow at the end of class to acknowledge gratitude to the teacher
erick hawkins
ball and socket joint
reverance
jerome robbins
42. This denishawn dancer and broadway choreographer invented theater dance
glide
telling a traditional story
doris humphrey and charles weidman
jack cole
43. Intersects an upright standing body horizontally the table plane
touch
transverse horizontal plane
matt mattox
Bob Fosse
44. Part of a movement is performed
Luigi
Direction
fragmentation
canon
45. To develop or grow - drawing the working foot up the standing leg and then extending it outward
flexion and extension
modern dance
alexander technique
developpe
46. Movement anchored to one spot by a pody part. Only the available space in any direction is used while the initial body contact is being maintained. Movement is organized around the axis of the body and is not designed to travel from one location to a
axial movement
ballet
narrative
flexion
47. Two steps in sequence - one on each foot; the first step gets less weight than the second
meter
fifth position
ball change
slap
48. He was the choreographer for Ballets Russes
abduction
Mikhail Fokine
jerome robbins
melody
49. 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.
contrast
promenade - turns - lifts - leaps
tap dance
third position
50. Awareness of one's body and its possibilities - capabilities and limitations
head whip
shuffle
broadway or show tap
body knowledge