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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. Modern dance technique style that explores fall and recovery
jack cole
doris humphrey
rond de jambe
shuffle
2. Combination: sudden time/indirect space/strong weight
erick hawkins
slash
doris humphrey and charles weidman
vaganova method
3. To disengage - brushing foot thru tendu to slightly leave the ground
flap
Mikhail Fokine
retrograde
degage
4. Multiple performers perform a movement in succession
canon
aerobic exercise
Bob Fosse
tap
5. This denishawn dancer and broadway choreographer invented theater dance
assessing complex assignments
motif and development
aerobic exercise
jack cole
6. He was a broadway/hollywood hoofer and actor who ushered in the tap revival of the 1980s
ball change
gregory hines
adductor magnus
Marius Petipa
7. Feet: separated shoulder width third position arms: arm corresponding with front foot in front of the torso as in first position - arm corresponding with back foot overhead as in fifth position
assessing complex assignments
fourth position
rhythm
variety
8. A feeling of completion or wholeness in a dance achieved when all parts work well together.
alexander technique
frontal plane
unity
grand allegro
9. When a movment phrase or section progresses to the next.
twyla tharp
transition
locomotion
Kinesthetics
10. Multiple performers perform the movement in the same way at the same time
shuffle
Kinesthetics
paul taylor
unison
11. Combination: sustained time/indirect space/strong weight
body knowledge
wring
balance
harold and fayard nicholas
12. In Laban Movement Analysis the space in which a dancer's body is moving is called the
folk/traditional
kinesphere
Catherine de Medici
Direction
13. Observers would be unlikely to see contractions - releases - and isolations in which of the following dance forms?
fifth position
ballet
flap
melody
14. Jose Limon - Alvin Ailey - Paul Taylor - Katharine Dunham - Merce Cunningham expanded
extension of the working leg
rhythm
ballet
modern dance
15. Feet separated shoulder width toes turned out arms: both extended open and held symmetrically out to the sides - hands between the shoulders and ribcage
Butoh
second position
syncopation
Marius Petipa
16. Phrasing may be determined by all but which of the following
jazz dance
modern dance
touch
space
17. This is a repeated grouping of accented beats
erick hawkins
flick
meter
aerobic exercise
18. A structure of movement patterns in time; the pattern produced by emphasis and duration of notes in music.
rhythm
shuffle
tendu
Beauchamps & Noverre
19. A particular kind or style of dance - such as - ballet - jazz - modern - folk - tap - hip-hop - etc.
frontal plane
genre
folk/traditional
cumulative canons
20. Modern jazz style that is a therapeutic method - emphasizes fluidity - unbroken motion - balance - and smooth transitions.
transverse horizontal plane
Luigi
ballet
repetition
21. Tendonitis is typically caused by
float
shuffle
overuse of a tendon
head whip
22. They codified many standard ballet rules still used today
Beauchamps & Noverre
punch
weight
tableau
23. The movement is speeded up or slowed down
movement of the arms
tempo acceleration/deceleration
developpe
gene kelly
24. He was a star dancer with and controversial choerographer for Ballets Russes
genre
loie fuller and isadora duncan
Nijinsky
Direction
25. He established the first ballet school in France in the 1600s
King Louis XIV
interdisciplinary
kinesthetic awareness
plie
26. A piece of choreography that lacks flow could be improved by the addition of
stomp
step
transitions
ballet
27. Tap dance is known for making heavy use of which of the following types of rhythm?
syncopation
pirouette
ball change
gus giordano
28. He was a turn of the century vaudeville hoofer who danced on broadway and in hollywood's shirley temple films
Bob Fosse
bill bojangles robinson
cramp roll
retrograde
29. 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
ball and socket joint
ideokinesis
plie
choreography
30. All performers begin at the same time but at different starting points within the same phrase
flap
inversion
simultaneous canons
force/energy
31. 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
turns at center
stomp
at the front
axial movement
32. Feet: heel of one foot against the big toe of the other foot - toes turned out arms. both arms extending overhead
cholly atkins
jazz
fifth position
stomp
33. Late modern dance technique that created dances without any attached historical - cultural or philosophical meanings
eversion
transverse horizontal plane
merce cunningham
space
34. Combination: sudden time/direct space/light weight
brush/scuff
dab
hyperextension
slash
35. She brought the precursors of ballet to France in the 1500s
snap
second position
gene kelly
Catherine de Medici
36. Feet heels touching toes turned out arms: both arms held in front of the torso hands at waist level
first position
retrograde
extension of the working leg
locomotion
37. Similar to the principles of visual art. Refers to the presence of unity - continuity (transitions) and variety (contrasts and repitition-patterns) in the choreography
Kinesthetics
Principles of composition
slap
bartenieff fundamentals
38. While executing a fouette turn (fouette en tournant) the dancer's working leg is engaged in
flexion and extension
space
slap
lester horton
39. He was the creator of legendary ballets for the Russian Imperial Theatre including the Nutcracker and Swan Lake
movement of the arms
ruby keeler
cecchetti method
Marius Petipa
40. An element of dance that refers to the immediate spherical space surrounding the body in all directions. Use of space includes shape - direction - pathway - range of movement and level of movment(Low - middle - high).
tempo
space
stomp
punch
41. Kazua ohno and tatsumi hijikata developed
Butoh
improve muscle strength
tendu
tempo
42. 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.
time
second position
cramp roll
erick hawkins
43. Late modern dance technique that draws from everyday gestures and movements such as sitting - crawling - rolling - walking - and running.
weight
unison
paul taylor
social dance
44. This broadway and hollywood choreographer did the film version of west side story
retrograde
jerome robbins
tendu
narrative
45. In order to improve student's kinesthetic awareness and originality - a teacher might assign
Principles of composition
kinesthetic awareness
a contact improvisation exercise
katherine dunham
46. Tap dancers that focus on design and dance aspect of tapping such as fred astaire - gene kelly and ann miller
dynamics
broadway or show tap
inversion
frontal plane
47. A line along which a person or part of the person such as an arm or head - moves. Pathways can be linear - in circles - zigzags - etc.
economic development
pathways
variety
gene kelly
48. Refers to simple - multiple - and different rhythm patterns played at the same time.
matt mattox
wring
polyrhythm
King Louis XIV
49. Sturdy body with strong dense musculature - lack of flexibility
meter
line dancing
gregory hines
mesomorph
50. The founder of the modern classical method of ballet
hop
eversion
jazz hands
george balanchine