Toto, I don't think we're in the west anymore.
Don't be an idiot-phone.
Shall we Dance?
Just dance, gonna be okay, da da doo-doo-mmm
Dance: Genre-ally Speaking
100
Drones are always heard along with the tabla and sitar in the music of this region.
What is India?
100
This type of instrument creates sound by vibrating itself.
What is an idiophone?
100
These are technical abilities, specific movements, or combinations.
What are skills?
100
These are the physical skills of a dancer that enable him or her to execute the steps and movements required.
What are techniques?
100
This is a form of Western classical dance that originated in the Renaissance courts of Europe.
What is ballet?
200
Nondescript syllables sung in the music of this culture are called vocables.
What is Native American?
200
This type of instrument creates sound by vibrating a column of air.
What is an aerophone?
200
This is a dancer’s responsiveness to musical elements.
What is musicality?
200
This refers to the energy of movement as expressed with varying intensity.
What are dynamics?
200
This is a dance genre also known as ballroom dancing.
What is social dance?
300
These two regions frequently use call and response patterns in music.
What are African and Caribbean Islands?
300
This is the definition of a membranophone.
What is the type of instrument that creates sound by vibrating a membrane?
300
This is created by a range of different elements in dance.
What is variety?
300
This occurs when one dance movement progresses into the next.
What is a transition?
300
This is a dance genre that concentrates on rhythm and footwork.
What is tap dance?
400
These two regions use pentatonic scales.
What are China and Japan.
400
This is the definition of a chordophone.
What is the type of instrument that creates sound by vibrating one or more strings?
400
This is repetition.
What is the duplication of a movement within choreography?
400
This a work.
What is a piece of choreography or a dance, like a piece or composition of music?
400
This is a dance genre marked by movement isolation and complex, propulsive poly-rhythms?
What is jazz dance?
500
Middle Eastern music encompasses these three traditions.
What are Arabic, Turkish, and Persian.
500
Found in the Indonesian gamelon, this type of instrument creates sound by vibrating metal objects.
What is a metallophone.
500
These are the four elements of dance.
What are body/shape, energy/force, time, and space.
500
This is dance.
What is movement selected and organized for aesthetic purposes?
500
This is modern dance.
What is a more recent dance genre that values expressive, original and authentic movement?
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