Lesson 2 / Contemporary Dance

Question 1

Is a hybrid of modern dance and ballet

Answer 1

Contemporary dance

Question 2

is often credited as the Founding Mother of Contemporary Dance. She brought contemporary dance into the mainstream. Her choreographies and modern dance gathered the fame that is compared today to the life works of legendary geniuses of art such as Stravinsky, Frank Lloyd Wright and Picasso.

Answer 2

Martha Graham

Question 3

was a student of Martha Graham. He started an independent career as a choreographer in 1942 after being a main dancer in company of Martha Graham for several years.

Answer 3

Merce Cunningham

Question 4

trained many famous modern dancers and a very influential contemporary dance visionary that managed to incorporate the styles of modern jazz and Native American into his dance techniques.

Answer 4

Lester Horton

Question 5

8 Contemporary Dance Terms and Techniques

Answer 5

Abstraction
Alignment
Arch
Beat
Contraction
Lunge
Mirroring
Pirouette

Question 6

does not relate to symbolic contents nor tell a story, or any kind of ideas, associations with feelings, or other elements than movement itself. If the dances are seen through the frame of their components and/or pure movement.

Answer 6

Abstraction

Question 7

It is the proper posture and alignment of bones that
increases physiological effectiveness of health

Answer 7

Alignment

Question 8

It is a position that the upper body is extended and creating the form of an arch.

Answer 8

Arch

Question 9

It is the basic unit used to measure time in both musical language and
choreography. It is the pulse with a certain frequency and occurs repeatedly.

Answer 9

Beat

Question 10

It is the forward curving of the spine that starts from the pelvic zone.

Answer 10

Contraction

Question 11

comes from the aerobics language and used by the dancers to name a movement in which your weight transfer the weight forward, and put half of it (or more) on the leg that advances and bends; the leg behind may stay extended or may bend too.

Answer 11

Lunge

Question 12

consists of an activity of the body for duo, in which one person moves and the other follows as if he/she was a mirror.

Answer 12

Mirroring

Question 13

it refers to a full turn on one leg, while the other leg bent, till the point where the foot reaches the knee (with the classical turnout or in a parallel position).

Answer 13

Pirouette