Characteristics of Foreign Dances Flashcards
The distinct characteristics of foreign dances vary according to the country’s what?
culture, values, and traditions.
These frequently tell stories based on myths, historical events, epic poems, and legends.
Asian dances
Asians’ _____, _____, and _____ are closely linked and mutually related often depending on symbolic gestures, masks and complicated make ups and majestic costumes.
drama; music; dances
Quadrille and cotillion are examples of what?
Couple dancing
Couple dancing like _____ and _____ that developed first a _____ among the aristocrats in _____, emerged during the _____ century, particularly in _____ and _____.
quadrille; cotillion; social diversion; Europe; 19th; France; Italy
This requires many couples participating in square dance.
American folk dance
This form of dance is determined by a caller, a non-dancer who names each dance figure extemporaneously, combing established patterns (chains, stars, clover leaves).
Square dance
In _____, the natives perform elaborate dance rituals, to ensure social well being and vision quest.
North America
These are dances that use imitative and symbolic gestures and sinuous body movements, or hand gestures to convey a story like a Hawaiian hula, and accompanied by chanting.
Oceanian dances
Originally, [Hula] is a religious dance mostly performed by whom?
warriors and priestesses
Dances in _____ are actually borrowed directly from African dance movements, characterizing _____ movements with _____ dance native elements.
Latin America; Spanish; Indian
Dances in Latin America are actually borrowed directly from what?
African dance movements
At present, modern world promotes more borrowing of dances from different countries aside the creation of new dance forms resulted in a mixture of what?
national styles
These dances can be preserved for the future generation through the use of films, video tapes and dance notation system.
Foreign and contemporary dances
