Styles
What style of dance incorporates lyrical, ballet, modern and jazz
Contemporary
As a source of inspiration, this important element can be fast or slow and is vital to play when dancing.
Music
What do you call it when you prepare the body to dance; increasing the body's strength and flexibility.
Warm Up
In what movie were there tap dancing penguins?
'Happy Feet'
TV commercials started a world wide trend featuring dancing in public places, what is this phenomenon know as?
A Flash Mob
What style of dance is done with a partner.
Ballroom
It is known as the social dance, because of the interaction between the two.
The term “salsa” used to describe the emerging dance form was coined in what city?
New York City
Cultural influences = Cuban, Afro-Caribbean, Latin-America
What is another word for practice?
It is important to do this with choreography so it can be as close to perfect as possible.
Rehearse
What theatre production features lots of Felines and the song Memories?
Cats
The 'Paso Doble' dance takes its inspiration from what animal sport?
Bull fighting
What dance creates drum like rhythmic patterns and sounds with their shoes while they dance.
Tap Dancing
What type of dance was popular in the 1920's?
Charleston
When a dancer is using improvisation, what are they doing?
a. Following the choreography
b. Proving their talents
c. making it up as they go along
d. Dancing with a partner
c. making it up as they go along
In the movie 'Grease' Danny sings a song about 'Greased Lightning', what is he dancing on?
A Car
What dance move is this?
Standing with legs slightly apart and knees slightly bent, the dancer then bends their left elbow to enable them to place their left hand behind their head. They then outstretch their right arm in line with their right shoulder, hand flat in a vertical position. The dancer then rotates around the waist in a 180-degree sweep, pulling back three times as you move your arm to the left, and then in one motion swing your right arm back to the right.
Those are the kinda complicated instructions to what disco dance you can do right in your front yard?
The Sprinkler
What is a highly formalized and stylized theatrical dance form, characterized by precise movements, specific techniques, and the use of music, costumes, and scenery to tell stories or express emotions.
Ballet
What type of dancing was rooted in swing dances like the Lindy Hop and emerged from a cultural fusion of African American and European musical traditions.
Rock N Roll
True or False: A tango dance is always the same choreographed dance.
False
In the movie "Singin' in the Rain" Frank Sinatra does a famous dance in the rain - what type of dance was it?
Tap Dance
1994's Oktoberfest Zinzinnati set a record for the world's largest performance of what "bird-y" oom-pah dance, with over 48,000 participants?
The Chicken Dance
What dance usually has quick footsteps, lots of leaps and turns and unique moves.
Jazz
What does the name "polka" mean in Czech?
Half Step
In what 1987 movie Baby Houseman falls in love with her dance instructor Johnny. In the final dance scene what is their iconic move?
The lift, where Johnny catches her in the air after she runs and leaps into his arms.
What is the movie called where Ren McCormack moves from Chicago to a small Midwestern town and discovers the town has made dancing and rock music illegal.
'Footloose'
What are the four dance elements?
a. movement, area, beat, steps
b. body, space, time, energy
b. body, space, time, energy