Types of Dance Flashcards
what does bharatanatyam and liturgical dance have in common?
Both are types of sacred dances
Flamenco dance is defined as
A form of dance that originated in Spain and is characterized by audible and often rabid footwork
What are two categories of folk dance?
Social and Religious.
Cha-Cha
of Cuban origin. The most popular Latin dance is composed of quick steps. a variant of mambo and rumba. 4/4 time
The foxtrot is danced in ____ tempo
4/4
Polka originated as a ____ dance and is performed in ___ tempo.
originated as an English folk dance performed in 2/4 tempo
swing dance evolved from
the jazz era
Swing dances uses a hold similar to the
foxtrot
Swing is also known as the
Lindy
The waltz is performed in a
3/4 tempo with the accent on the first beat.
What best describes lyrical jazz movements?
upright and flowing
A teacher asks students to perform a series of improvisations in which they take a particular movement and transform it by varying the speed or tempo, changing the size of the movement, and allowing it to become an unrelated movement. This exercise is most appropriate for introducing students to the
concept of
Abstraction of movement
While introducing various concepts of space to a Dance I class, the teacher demonstrates rising to a high position and then sinking to a lower position. Which of the following spatial elements is the teacher demonstrating?
Levels
In which of the following dance classes would a student be most likely to perform a combination that consists of a body swing, followed by stepping into an undercurve, and then a step into a leg swing to the front?
Modern Dance
In which type of dance would a student most likely practice the Jack Cole arm position?
Jazz dance
A student has chosen the jazz dance genre for a choreography project. The student begins the choreography with step, ball-change, shoulder roll, layout back. Which of the following movements follows most naturally as the next step in the combination?
Step, Fan
In which of the following dances is a hat used specifically as a prop?
Jarabe Tapatio
What dance consists of footwork, costumes, and music from Latin America in which partner dances occur and men typically wear hats, women wear large flowing skirts, and both wear hard shoes?
Ballet Folklorico
What dance is usually done on bare feet, has fluid hand motions representing words, music & chanting that relates to legends, and every word has meaning in the movement?
Hula
What dance can be done solo or with a partner, with percussive footwork and stylized arm and hand movements, accompanied by music and singers, little to no touching, prideful/proud performances with fierce eye looks, origin in roman Spain gypsy communities?
Flamenco
What can describe Native American dances?
- Rhythmic steps and stamping
- Standing upright bending slightly
- Weight on the balls of the feet
- Elaborate costumes
What can describe African dances?
- Repeating patterns
- Gestures
- Articulation of the spine
- Accompanied by drums, acapella singing, or instruments
- Exuberant and expressive acrobatic foot-stamping while using the ball of the foot or full arch.
- rhythms relate to everything from the moon to life on earth to religion and deities.
What can describe a traditional greek dance?
- Dancers hold hands above shoulders
- rhythmic dragging, hopping, leaping.
- danced in lines or circles
What can describe traditional Indian style dances
- tells stories of everyday folk life and culture of villagers
- Classical styles require extensive training in order to perform.
- Tell stories of people animals deities
- Formations single, double, circles, parallel, rows, or pyramids
- Accompanied by music
- Required balance and control of torso and center of -gravity footwork and gestures and acting.
- Lord Krishna portrayed dancing
- Classical dance trace roots back to Sanskrit text including hand positions foot patterns gait limb positions
- Some classical dances began to die out during British rule
What can describe traditional dances from Japan?
- relies on imagery
- slow controlled movements
- can sometimes contort the performer into grotesque shapes
What dance mixes elements of martial arts?
Capoeira
What are some dances from South and Central America?
Rumba Samba Cha-Cha Mambo Conga Cumbia Salsa Merengue Tango Capoeira
The tango originated in ( and other facts ) . . .
in lower class Uruguay Buenos AIres 19th century Argentina
- Music mix of European instruments, minuet timing, and African rhythms
- 20th-century tango traveled with sailors who came to Europe and U.S
- Upper classes then claimed it as their own.
Describe European dances from Ireland, Scotland, Wales
- Rhythmic stepping and hopping patterns
- arms at sides
- Single lines double lines or circles
- Individual or couples
- Props: sticks, hoop, flexible swords, garlands and handkerchiefs
- Floor patterns are in lines and circles
- dancers venture into the middle of the space then back out again.
- Schottisches dances interweave their patterns and greet one another
Middle school Dance education
- Approaching peak functioning level without having sufficient time and wear to becoming prone to injuries.
- Good time to develop a plan of healthy eating, sufficient rest and conditioning designed to address the dancer’s individual flexibility, strength and endurance and alignment issues.
- Establish identity autonomy and world view ideal for exercises involving composition systematic revisions and verbal analysis of a dance to a socially relevant theme.
Highschool Dance education
- Assessment of internal ideas as well as external environmental images and patterns
- Foster basic kinesthetic sense
- External design cues for movement and the basic connection among emotions, ideas and movement.
- Criteria: perception, creative expression performance, knowledge of historical or cultural heritage and response/evaluation.
Isolation in jazz dance refers to
body parts moving independently of one another
What stylistic elements are combined in Japanese Bugaku dance
repetition and restrained tempo
A standard performance by a Ballet Folklorico company consists of
traditional dances from several different regions of Mexico
What effects did the rock-and-roll dances of the early sixties have on the etiquette of social dance?
it removed all conventions of leading and following.
A tap dancer creates percussive sounds
by striking the floor
Swing as a little bit of
west coast and east coast varieties
what dance originated in Brazil?
Samba
What dance has Cuban/African origins?
Salsa ( 150-250 bpm)
What dance originated in Argentina?
Tango
What is danced to a quick, quick, slow rhythm?
Salsa
Belly dancing traditionally makes use of
a hip scarf embellished with metal pieces
Hip-Hop combines elements from break dancing and funk styles and has
developed independently of dance studios
Folk and Social dances are normally performed
by non-professionals and in a communal place
Tap Dance is known for making heavy use of which rhythm?
Syncopation
Observers would be less likely to see Isolation, Contractions, and Releases in what dance?
Ballet dance. ( Jazz, Modern, etc. contain isolations, contractions, releases. )
What societal changes and impacts helped popularize many dance styles from around the world such as Irish dancing and belly dancing?
Globalization and Immigration.
The Civil Rights movement and women’s rights civil moment helped many pioneer new styles of dance like which for example
Modern dance, tap dance, and African-Caribbean dance
What are the 9 forms/styles of dance?
Ballet, Tap, Modern, Jazz, Musical theatre, ethnic folk, social ballroom, exercise, other allied movement.
The jive and Lindy hop are variations of what dance?
Jitterbug
What dance is named for famed aviator Charles Lindberg?
Lindyhop/jitterbug
What dance us a lively dance and a variation of the two step?
Jitterbug
The Bending of the knees with a straight torso while tilting backward in jazz dance is called
a hinge
Which of Paul Taylor’s dance performances had a strong narrative a tells the story of an innocent family whose world is turned upside down during an outing to an amusement park.
Big Bertha
In which performance did Martha Graham portrayed the jealous and bitter Medea.
Cave of the Heart.
What were the 4 functions of dance used by ancient greeks?
Worship, Education, Theatre,Entertainment
What are the 8 functions of dance?
- Cultural identity
- Cultural Fusion
- Religious Worship
- Social order and power
- cultural values
- theatrical art form
- recreation/physical
- indicator of who we are and where we’re going
In what two places was dance found in ancient Rome?
Festivals and theatres
What are the 4 types of religious dance among ancient cultures?
Imitation, Medicine, Commemorative, and Spiritual Connection.
What are the virtuoso techniques?
coordination of arms, legs, and feet to create harmony
How was dance used by the ancient Egyptians/
Religious Worship and Entertainment
Thomas hanna’s method to connect mental processess to physical ones. developed in the 1970s is called?
Somatics
