Exam 1

Question 1

Where did turnout come from?

Answer 1

Fencer’s stance

Question 2

2 Categories of Ballroom Dance

Answer 2

1. Basse dance- feet stay in contact with floor (peasant dance)
2. Haute dance- higher skips and jumps

Question 3

What nation became the place where ballet took root and flourished?

Answer 3

France

Question 4

2 points about the growth of ballet in France

Answer 4

1. Proscenium Theatre- separated audience from dancers
2. another thing to add later

Question 5

What did Dancing Masters do? (3)

Answer 5

1. Taught ballroom dances
2. Created ballets
3. set standards of etiquette and deportment

Question 6

Thoinot Arbeau (“Bow”)

Answer 6

1. author of Orchesographie
2. dialogues between him and his young student Capriol
3. Dance manual
4. Includes discussion of proper manners/grooming

Question 7

Fabritio Caroso (“Fab”)

Answer 7

1. author of Nobilta di Dame (1600)
2. examples of complete choreographed dances
3. etiquette discussion

Question 8

What title did Arbeau, Beauchamps, Beaujoyeaux, and Caroso all have in common?

Answer 8

They were Dancing Masters :)

Question 9

What ballets were being performed during the Renaissance and who were dancing in them?

Answer 9

Court ballets, and
Monarchs, the aristocrats, and later dance professionals

Question 10

What is the Renaissance? (3)

Answer 10

1. means “rebirth”
2. art was seen as a branch of knowledge
3. art was viewed mathematically with balance, harmony, and perspective

Question 11

In the Renaissance, was dance becoming widely accepted by all people or banned by the majority? Why?

Answer 11

come back to this one

Question 12

What was the first ballet?

Answer 12

Ballet Comique de la Reine (1581)

Question 13

Where/who was the first ballet, Comique de la Reine, held?

Answer 13

Held at the court of Henry III of France at Fontainebleau

Question 14

Who produced early ballet?

Answer 14

Catherine de Medici

Question 15

Who was Ballet Comique de la Reine in honor of?

Answer 15

Catherine’s sister Marguerite de Lorraine

Question 16

Who choreographed Ballet Comique de la Reine?

Answer 16

Balthasar de Beaujoyeaux (Italian musician and dancing master)

Question 17

What types of stories were incorporated into early ballet?

Answer 17

Mixture of Old Testament stories and Greek/Roman mythology (ex. Legend of Circe)

Question 18

Who danced early ballets?

Answer 18

Nobles of the court who were not professional entertainers

Question 19

Who created the music for early ballets?

Answer 19

Court professionals

Question 20

What did the set of early ballets look like?

Answer 20

People danced on the floor of the hall, which had elaborate designs, fountains, aquatic machines, etc.

Question 21

Where was the audience for early ballets?

Answer 21

Audience sat above the performers in galleries, over 10,000

Question 22

How long were early ballets?

Answer 22

From 10pm to 4am!!

Question 23

What was the cost of going to an early ballet?

Answer 23

3-5 million francs

Question 24

What invention helped the spread of dance?

Answer 24

Printing press

Question 25

What spectacle was ALSO considered to be the first ballet?

Answer 25

Was it the sword dance?

Question 26

Differences between dances of common people vs. aristocrats?

Answer 26

peasant dances were copied by the nobility, but in a more refined and courtly form

Question 27

What is ductia?

Answer 27

A favorite of the wealthy

Question 28

Dancing mania

Answer 28

black plague. mania days at a time til death from exhaustion.

Question 29

Danse Macabre

Answer 29

Spooky backstory (ghosts dance at churchyards/graveyards. don’tdance with them or you die)