PE Topic 1-3

Question 1

This is the act of rhythmically moving the body and feet. This is usually done to music, and the dancer often follows an established pattern of steps.

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Dance

Question 2

This type of dancing was popular during the Middle Ages, when the common people danced in lines and circles.

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Country Dancing

Question 2

What was the other name for the court dance

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Social Dance
In the New century it evolved to ballroom dancing like Waltz and Minuet

Question 3

What was the dance form in Louis XIV’s seventeenth-century court that involved groups of eight couples.

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Cotillion

Question 3

What was the first ballet school?

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Académie Royale de Danse established by French King Louis XIV cuz he danced ballet and was nicknamed the Sun King for playing Apollo

Question 4

This dance dates back to Renaissance Italy. Court banquets featured a range of entertainment that included dances performed between food courses in 1489.

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Ballet

Question 5

This is the amount of energy that you can expend during an activity.

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Stamina

Question 5

Good dancers possess a lot of this aspect mainly in their legs and arms. This allows them to push off the floor elegantly and execute moves without struggle.

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Strength

Question 5

This dance dates back to the era of slavery in the United States. Enslaved Africans included people from West Africa who danced gioube, stepping dances used in both religious and secular dance forms. That style was blended in the eighteenth century with the Irish jig and other stepping dances done by European immigrants.

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Tap Dance

Question 5

Hip Hop Dance is a style of movement characterized by bounces and rocks, executed to. It has deep historical and social roots in African American culture, having emerged in Black communities living in 1970s New York.

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Hip Hop dance

Question 6

This important in dance because it provides you with a strong based to build the rest of the skills onto. This is the formation of the body where your bones and muscles can hold you upright against gravity.

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Posture

Question 6

This aspect refers to the range of motion that is available to you through your joints.

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Flexibility

Question 6

This is when you can start and stop performing on command. This also applies while standing still during a performance, it is important to control your stance so that you do not appear to be moving.

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Control

Question 6

This is an uneven and alternate transfer of body weight from one foot always remaining in contact with ground. The heel touches the floor first when moving forward.

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Walk

Question 6

An even and alternate transfer of the body weight from one foot to the other with the ball of the foot receiving the body weight. At one phase of the run, both feet are off the ground.

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Run

Question 6

Another vitally important skill to dancing, this refers to moving only one part of your body while keeping everything else still. This will give you rhythm and wow the audience.

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Isolation

Question 6

Similar to Flexibility, this aspect is important because you will be able to transition from move to move very quickly without much struggle. Quickness is often a term that goes hand in hand with this aspect.

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Mobility

Question 6

This skill is important it helps you achieve elaborates moves while dancing, helping you stay upright while performing, and allowing you to avoid a slip and falling.

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Balance

Question 7

This focuses more on the placement of your body, not so much the way you are standing. This skill is especially important if you are dancing with a group of people, since you want to be in the right place to stay in sync with the choreographed routine.

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Alignment

Question 7

One of the most important aspects since it can be useful alone or in a group, this refers to knowing where your body should be and when to move it. This aspect will help your moves look smooth to the audience. In a group setting, this is being in sync with the other dancers, making the performance look fluid.

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Coordination

Question 7

A spring on one or both feet landing on both feet in any direction.

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Jump

Question 8

Often used in ballet, this refers to the ability to rise their leg up to their head.

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Extension

Question 8

A spring on one-foot landing on the same foot in any desired direction.

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Hop

Question 8

The lifting the body in air from one foot and landing on the other foot in any direction.

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Leap

Question 9

A step on one foot and hopping on the same foot in fast tempo.

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Skip

Question 10

A modification of the walk in which the sole of the feet is in contact with the floor throughout the movement. The slide may be done with alternating movement, one foot leading when moving backward.

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Slide

Question 11

The springy movements of a joint from controlled small flexions and extensions within the deep flexion joint. This develops flexibility and increases range of motion.

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Bounce

Question 11

The pendulous movements of the arms or legs from the shoulder or hip joints. Swings start with contraction and carry through the arch of the movement by gravity.

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Swings

Question 12

A “catching up” step in which one foot quickly displaces the other as the displaced foot is moved away from it. It is a progressive cut step with one foot leading.

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Gallop

Question 13

The reaching out movements designed to extend muscle and joints to their fullest range to develop flexibility, range of motion and elasticity.

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Stretch

Question 14

The flexion of joints

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Bends

Question 15

The part of the body is allowed to turn around its own axis.

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Twist

Question 16

The forceful movement made to move an object away from the body.

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Push

Question 16

The distal end of a body part traces or describes a circle while the proximal part is in place.

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Circling

Question 17

The forceful movement made to move an object toward the body most often done with the arms.

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Pull

Question 18

A movement which raises an object or body part from one level to another.

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Lift

Question 19

A rotation or circular movement of the body or body parts around in space.

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Turn