Lesson 1

Question 1

the act of rhythmically moving the body and feet.

Answer 1

Dancing

Question 2

Importance of Dance

Answer 2

• Wellness
• Culturally Inclusive
• Giving and Receiving

Question 3

The Benefits of Dance

Answer 3

• Learning Benefits
• Behavioral
• Physical
• Mental
• Social
• Aesthetic
• Emotional
• Coordination

Question 4

(5) Elements of Dance

Answer 4

• Body
• Action
• Space
• Time
• Energy

Question 5

Any movement that occurs in one spot including a bend, stretch, swing, rise, fall, shake , turn, rock, tip, suspend, and twist.

Answer 5

Non-locomotor or axial movement

Question 6

Any movement that travels through space including a run, jump, walk, slide, hop, skip, somersault, leap, crawl, gallop, and roll.

Answer 6

Locomotor movement

Question 7

Is the movement on the floor or reaching upward? Are they performed high, medium, or low?

Answer 7

Level

Question 8

Does the movement go forward, backward, sideways, right, left, or on a diagonal?

Answer 8

Direction

Question 9

Is the movement done on the spot (personal space) or does it move through space (general space, downstage, upstage)?

Answer 9

Place

Question 10

Which way are the dancers facing?

Answer 10

Orientation

Question 11

Is the path through space made by the dancers curved, straight, or zigzagged? Or is it random?

Answer 11

Pathway

Question 12

Does the movement take up a small, narrow space, or a big, wide space?

Answer 12

Size

Question 13

How are the dancers positioned in space in relationship to one another? Are they close together or far apart? Are they in front of, besides, behind, over, under, alone, or connected to one another?

Answer 13

Relationships

Question 14

We use ____________ to think about the length of a dance or parts of a dance measured in seconds, minutes, or hours.

Answer 14

Clock Time

Question 15

When dancers move in relation to each other (before, after, together, sooner than, faster than).

Answer 15

Timing Relationships

Question 16

A repeated rhythmic pattern often used in music (like 2/4 time or 4/4 time). If dances are done to music, the movement can respond to the beat of the music or can move against it. The speed of the rhythmic pattern is called its tempo.

Answer 16

Metered time

Question 17

A rhythmic pattern is less predictable than metered time. Dancers may perform movement without using music, relying on cues from one another.

Answer 17

Free Rhythm

Question 18

Dancers use their ______ to take internal ideas, emotions, and intentions and express them in an outward manner, sharing them with others.

Answer 18

Bodies (Body)

Question 19

_______ is any human movement involved in the act of dancing.

Answer 19

Action

Question 20

_______ helps us to identify how the dancers move.

Answer 20

Energy

Question 21

Is the movement sharp and sudden, or smooth and sustained?

Answer 21

Attack

Question 22

Does the movement show heaviness, as if giving into gravity, or is it light with a tendency upward?

Answer 22

Weight

Question 23

Does the movement seem restricted and bound with a lot of muscle tension; or is it relaxed, free, and easy?

Answer 23

Flow

Question 24

Is the movement tight, flowing, loose, sharp, swinging, swaying, suspended, collapsed, or smooth?

Answer 24

Quality

Question 25

__________ were popular during Middle Ages

Answer 25

Country Dances

Question 26

During the __________, country dances were modified amd made formal for court dances held during the reigns of monarchs including French ______________ and _____________ of England.

Answer 26

Renaissance, King Louis XIV, Queen Elizabeth I

Question 27

The dance critic who wrote this?

“No paints nor brushes, marbles nor chisels, pianos or violins are needed to make this art, for we are the stuff that dance is made of. It is born in our body, exists in our body and dies in our body. Dance, then, is the most personal of all the arts . . . it springs from the very breath of life.”

Answer 27

Walter Terry