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Dance Basics
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1. Based on laban movement analysis - this practice encourages a deepened awareness of the connections between mind - body - movement - and internal and external environments to enhance mobility and function
ballet
Beauchamps & Noverre
doris humphrey
bartenieff fundamentals
2. This broadway and hollywood choreographer did the film version of west side story
jerome robbins
Marius Petipa
adagio
ann miller
3. The founder of the modern classical method of ballet
modern dance
master juba lane
george balanchine
Principles of composition
4. Combination: sustained time/indirect space/lightweight
coordinating lighting and sound cues
extension of the working leg
polyrhythm
float
5. The original movement is the question and the new movement is the answer
wring
action/reaction
genre
grand allegro
6. He was a legendary avant garde choreographer
jazz dance
stamp
cholly atkins
merce cunningham
7. 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
vaganova method
reverance
at the front
ideokinesis
8. If a ballet step such as grand battement is performed en croix - this means
float
rond de jambe
tap dance
in all directions
9. Creation and composition of dances by arranging or inventing steps - movements - and pattern of movements.
doris humphrey
choreography
shape
telling a traditional story
10. Movement of a limb away from the midline of the body
tap
abduction
Catherine de Medici
ideokinesis
11. She was the co-founder of denishawn - the first modern dance school
endomorph
sagittal plane
ruth st. denis
dab
12. He established the horton technique and was a longtime partner of bell lewitzky
lester horton
erick hawkins
ruth st. denis
rhythm
13. Similar to the principles of visual art. Refers to the presence of unity - continuity (transitions) and variety (contrasts and repitition-patterns) in the choreography
unison
Principles of composition
modern
alexander technique
14. This is the dynamic hitting of a positions
ballet
fifth position
jump
snap
15. Rounded body type.
partnering/group skills
Luigi
cramp roll
ectomorph
16. Celebrated teacher of jazz technique
tap
retrograde
matt mattox
pelvic thrusts
17. The intentional quality of the path taken by a body part or a body through space during a movement. direct or indirect
degage
Marius Petipa
space
rotation
18. With which of the following styles of modern dance is Isadora Duncan associated?
syncopation
modern dance
free dance
motif and development
19. She was an award-winning choreographer of both broadway and hollywood jazz and modern dance
kinesthetic awareness
transverse horizontal plane
twyla tharp
mesomorph
20. A dance teacher would most likely suggest that a student practice Pilates exercises in order to
cecchetti method
frappe
broadway or show tap
improve muscle strength
21. This celebrated teacher founded the jazz dance world congress
bob fosse
rotation
flexion
gus giordano
22. The orginal french form of classical ballet from italy
cecchetti method
kinesthetic awareness
extension
syncopation
23. In order to relieve muscle tension - a dancer might engage in all but which of the following practices
fifth position
gus giordano
Direction
pilates
24. Skills requiring cooperation -coordination and dependence - including imitation - lead and follow - echo - mirroring and call and response
transverse horizontal plane
flap
martha graham
partnering/group skills
25. Part of a movement is performed
angular oppositions
master juba lane
fred astaire and ginger rogers
fragmentation
26. To disengage - brushing foot thru tendu to slightly leave the ground
ideokinesis
melody
dynamics
degage
27. Modern dance technique that transformed everyday movement in to the absurd or dramatic
charles weidman
ruth st. denis
telling a traditional story
erick hawkins
28. Kazua ohno and tatsumi hijikata developed
rond de jambe
sagittal plane
cumulative canons
Butoh
29. Forward brush followed by a touch
fourth position
free dance
slap
matt mattox
30. 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
Butoh
doris humphrey
repetition
31. The hip joint is a
matt mattox
master juba lane
ball and socket joint
George Balanchine
32. Which of the following dance steps is most advanced? plie - degage - entrechat - tendu
narrative
turns from corner
entrechat
syncopation
33. Combination: sudden time/direct space/light weight
punch
george balanchine
dab
unison
34. He established the first ballet school in France in the 1600s
King Louis XIV
adductor magnus
flick
unison
35. Slow sustained movements that often incorporate developpes and balances such as penches
adagio
contrast
retrograde
doris humphrey
36. Placing an accent on a normally weak beat
syncopation
Butoh
extension of the working leg
lester horton
37. 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
fragmentation
feldenkrais
tendu
pilates
38. She brought the precursors of ballet to France in the 1500s
retrograde
transition
Catherine de Medici
kinesphere
39. More is added to the original movement
ann miller
accumulation
hop
Luigi
40. This is a repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed beats in a piece of music
Kinesthetics
second position
merce cunningham
rhythm
41. A piece of choreography or dance
slash
space
work
hop
42. Lightly striking the floor in an outward sweeping motion (brush with ball - scuff with heel)
biceps brachii - biceps femoris
third position
martha graham
brush/scuff
43. Rubrics are most effective for
vaganova method
jazz dance
ruth st. denis
assessing complex assignments
44. He was a broadway - hollywood and las vegas dancer - singer and actor
sammy davis jr
slash
broadway or show tap
isolated movement
45. He was a celebrated choreographer and the first male dance for the graham company
jump
rhythm
erick hawkins
Marius Petipa
46. This award winning choreographer and musical director of cabaret - sweet charity - and all that jazz created the fosse technique
third position
bob fosse
space
adductor magnus
47. Multiple performers perform the movement in the same way at the same time
unison
bob fosse
ted shawn
projection
48. The sagittal plane divides the body
sammy davis jr
syncopation
vertically
cumulative canons
49. Leaving the ground and landing on the other foot
dynamics
turns at center
George Balanchine
jump
50. A structure of movement patterns in time; the pattern produced by emphasis and duration of notes in music.
augmentation/diminution
movement of the arms
developpe
rhythm
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