Dance History Flashcards
“Dance is an activity which can take many forms and fill many different needs. It can be recreation, entertainment, education, therapy and religion. In its purest and most basic form, dance is art, the art of body movement”
Barbara Mettler (1980)
form of art using rhythmic bodily movements expressing ideas and emotions and accompanied by music
Dance
form of recreation
Dance
form of socialization
Dance
the Egyptians were the first great culture to infuse its society with the magic of dance, which evolved from the simplest rituals used by hunters to find their prey
PREHISTORIC PERIOD
_______ were the first great culture to infuse its society with the magic of dance, which evolved from the simplest rituals used by hunters to find their prey
Egyptians
participation in dance and drama festival was a religious exercise not merely an amusement
GREEK PERIOD
evolved from basic dramatic form which incorporated dance, music, spoken words, and costumes
GREEK PERIOD
In the greek period, there were more than _____ Greek dances designed for every mood and purpose
200
______ imported entertainers from Greece to perform theatrical pieces in honor of the gods and to amuse a population weary from a plague
Rome
Romans were influenced by ______ models, putting the most emphasis on the spectacle and mime to the extent that dancing itself almost disappeared
Grecian
Drama dance in a form of entertainment
ROMAN PERIOD
another important rite of the Middle Ages was known as the _________.
dance of death
originally dance movements were part of dramatic rituals, the best-known of which is the Latin Mass
MEDIEVAL PERIOD
by the ________ these works moved from inside the churches to the out-of-doors
Middle Ages
was a powerful artistic and allegorical motif that emerged during the late Middle Ages
Dance of Death
Dance of Death is known as the ________
Danse Macabre
this period saw the birth of the theatre in dance in the courts of Italian City states, where such dance was used as a political machinery to show splendor, wealth and power
RENAISSANCE PERIOD
during the middle 17th century, ______ became a spectacle in every court
ballet
during the 20th century, _____ and _____ became popular as classic ballet continued to flourish
jazz and tap dance
Public ballet performances involved more than just dancing because they were a mixture of poetry, music, dialogue, and elaborate dance. such ballet performance was known as ___________
ballets a entrees
social dances such as the fox trot, two-step, Boston, Charleston, Castle Walk, Castle polka, tango, conga, and rumba
MODERN PERIOD
