Show:
Dance 1
Dance 2
Dance 3
Dance 4
Dance 5
100
Vaudeville’s focus was on the entertainment of the audience. True or False
True
100
What cultural influences helped salsa become the style we know today?
Cuban, Afro-Caribbean, Latin-America
100
True or False: Capoeira disguised martial arts as dancing
True
100
Name three people associated with Jazz music:
What is Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne
100
What’s the main instrument used in Ragtime music?
What is the Piano?
200
Vaudille was diminished with the popularization of _______?
Movies
200
Who is the King of Zydeco?
Clifton Chenier
200
Capoeira was originally performed by _____________ ____________ in Brazil
What is African Slaves
200
In what year approximately did ragtime start?
What is 1890?
200
How were Isadora Duncan’s techniques, philosophies and choreographies passed down?
What are the 6 Isadorables
300
Who directed Ballets Russes?
Sergei Diaghilev
300
Where did Zydeco Originate?
What is Louisiana?
300
Most ritualistic dances in Native American Dance were derived from a relationship between humans and ___________.
What is Nature?
300
Ragtime was written in either a __________ or __________ time signature.
What is 2/4 or 4/4?
300
What culture did Isadora Duncan model her aesthetic upon?
What is Ancient Greek?
400
Who recently re-interpreted Ballets Russes?
Lady Gaga
400
True or False: A tango dance is always the same choreographed dance.
False
400
Oppression from ___________ influenced the creation of the Ghost Dance.
What is US government?
400
True or False: Scott Joplin composed “Maple Leaf Rag.”
What is True?
400
Who did Ruth St. Denis costume herself as?
What is Hindu Goddess Radha?
500
The term “salsa” used to describe the emerging dance form was coined in what city?
New York City
500
True or False: Tango originated in upper class Paris.
False
500
Name three instruments associated with Jazz music:
What is Clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, piano, upright bass, trombone, tuba, guitar, drums
500
Jelly Roll Morton’s “Maple Leaf Rag” was a popular song from the Ragtime repertoire. True or False
What is False?
500
Which goddess inspired St. Denis?
What is Egyptian Goddess Isis?