Elements of Dance
The main instrument of Dance.
What is Body?
T/F? Africa is a continent.
What is TRUE?
T/F? African and African-American slaves were the first to perform Tap dance on stage in minstrel shows.
What is FALSE?
T/F? The history of Jazz dance is different from the history of Tap dance.
What is "FALSE"?
T/F? Technique exists in ALL dances and dance forms.
What is TRUE?
T/F? The element of Body is the same as the element of Action.
What is False?
The reason for dancing bare feet in African dance.
What is "to connect closer to the Earth"?
The item used to create sound with shoes before Tap shoes had metal soles.
What is sand?
The name of the bee's dance to share information with other bees.
What is the Waggle and Round Dance?
The amount of Elements in Dance.
What is 5?
Define "polyrhythm".
What is "different rhythms played simultaneously"?
The three fundamental cultural dance forms that fused to create Tap dance.
What is British, Irish, and African?
The three forms of African-American social Jazz dances that emerged in the 19th century.
What is Buck, Wing, and Jig?
How many pieces did the instructor choreograph in the formal dance concert?
What is 3?
In 5 seconds, recite the order of the elements using the description provided.
1.) All human movements.
2.) How
3.) Rhythm
4.) Direction
What is Action, Energy, Time, Space?
A West African social dance from Ghana that celebrates the power of the youth.
What is (SAY IT AND SPELL IT)?
The major event that ultimately caused the creation of Tap dance.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Instructor's country of origin?
What is S. Korea?
The organization of time based on the dancers' own timing and cueing off other dancers.
What is Sensed Time?
DOUBLE POINTS!!!
Roll the ball, Kick step, Down Up, Heel Click, Down Down
The plantation dance that formed after a ban on drums that include movements like stepping, stomping, and clapping rhythmically.
What is the Juba dance?
DOUBLE POINTS!!!
Perform the Class Name Dance!