Ballet
What is the typical structure of a ballet dance class?
What is Barre work, center work
What are the two characteristics that both jazz dance and jazz music share?
What is Improvisation and a swing feeling
Where did jazz and tap artists flourish?
What is the Harlem District in New York City
What is hip hop culture?
What is Hip-hop culture includes fashion, music, speech, and behavior as well as dance like breaking.
What are the five primary purposes or functions of Dance?
What is ritual, political, social, therapeutic, and theatrical.
Who created the five classical positions of the legs in ballet? (turnout and codified technique)
What is Pierre Beauchamp
Who was a performer and choreographer that worked alongside well-known celebrities like Marilyn Monroe?
What is Jack Cole?
During what time period did Tap dance come back to its fame after its decline ?
When did the Tap Reniassance occur?
What is the 1970s and 1980s
What are the four elements of hip hop?
What is Dj, Breakers, Taggers, and emcees
What did court dances demonstrate?
What is wealth and power?
Who brought court dance to France in the end of the 15th century?
What is Catherine De' Medici
What movements entail authentic jazz dance?
What is a grounded quality that is often coupled with fast footwork, polyrhythmic movement, and a high use of syncopation.
What is a polyrythm?
What is when multiple rhythms are being preformed at once
Where did hip hop originate and who was responsible for the creation of hip hop dance?
What is the south Bronx in 1970s, hip hop emerged among oppressed latin x and african american groups
What is to please or placate the gods or to ask for a favor or blessing from the spirits?
When did the first point shoe appear?
What is the early 1800s
Who created the Cakewalk?
What is African Americans who were enslaved made the cakewalk dance as a way to make fun of their white owners.
Who was responisble for the development of tap dance?
What is African Americans that were forced into slavery and Irish and English settlers
Who was considered the father of hip hop?
What is DJ Kool Herc or Clive Campbell
What is a creative art form that practices art therapy focused on dance and movement as a psychotherapeutic tool?
What is Dance Movement Therapy (DMT)?
What is a repetiteur in ballet?
What is a repetiteur in ballet is someone who teaches and rehearses the choreography of a company if the original choreographer is unavailable or dead.
What musical appeared on Broadway in 1889 featuring the first all-African-American cast?
What is Clorindy, The Origin of the Cakewalk.
Who preformed the iconic singing in the rain dance?
What is Gene Kelly
What is locking? Who created locking?
What is Locking is a movement, from the isolation of the limbs and movement of the body that is performed by dancers "locking" in a specific position and then continuing to move on tempo as before prior to the lock. Locking originated on the West coast by Don "Campellock" Campbell
What social dance that served as a tool in teaching social etiquette?
What is the Waltz?