Ritual Dance
Living in close contact with and dependence upon animals inspires this kind of ritual dance, common in many indigenous cultures.
What are dances of imitation?
Gene Kelly performed a famous outdoor tap scene in some inclement weather in this 1952 movie musical.
What is Singin' in the Rain?
Potentially the first dance craze to "go viral," long before social media and the internet, these dances from the Austro-Hungarian Empire took Europe by storm in the 1830s and eventually made it to the Americas.
What are waltzes and polkas?
Body, space, time, and effort are the raw materials of dance as described by this theory.
What is Laban's Effort-Shape Theory?
This branch of postmodern dance explores performance created in an unconventional place, such as urban streets, rooftops, hilltops and in deserts, museums and parking lots.
What is site-specific dance?
Used honor and connect with ancestors, Egungun is a masquerade dance ritual from this culture in West Africa.
What is Yoruba?
This modern dancer and choreographer developed her own technique to train dancers that includes contraction and release of the torso.
Who is Martha Graham?
This uniquely American dance form emerged in the early 19th century when Irish and African people lived in close quarters in New York's Five Points (now Chinatown). The dance form blends Irish step dance with West-African footwork and rhythms.
What is tap dance?
This dancer choreographed the 1957 film West Side Story.
Who is Jerome Robbins?
Influenced by Chinese opera in the Tang dynasty, this is the oldest form of court dance still being performed-only by men- for ceremonies of state in Japan.
What is bugaku?
US Congress banned all Native dances and ceremonies, including this one, with The Religious Crimes Code of 1883. This legislation was not repealed until the 1970s. This ceremony, which celebrates the rite of passage into womanhood, was practiced in secret by a tribe in New Mexico for nearly 100 years, managed to survive, and is still practiced today.
What is the Apache Sunrise Ceremony?
This 20th-century choreographer and director of New York City Ballet integrated modern dance and jazz into his approach, creating a more athletic, contemporary style of ballet.
Who is George Balanchine?
Scottish sword dances, Brazilian capoeira, and Maori haka have all been used to train warriors, and thus could be categorized as this type of social dance.
What are war dances?
Television mainstream media from the 1980s influenced the growth of this dance culture from New York streets to an international phenomenon.
What is hip hop?
Trisha Brown was a choreographer who worked inside of this kind of concert dance.
What is postmodern dance?
Bharatanatyam is an Indian dance form that can be found on concert stages today, but originated as a temple dance inside of this major world religion.
What is Hinduism?
This royal form of dance created a line of demarcation between audience and performer, with powerful leaders sponsoring the training of select dancers.
What are court dances?
This Spanish dance form can be found in both social and theatrical settings, and integrates Andalusian dance from southern Spain, Moorish and Gypsy influences.
What is flamenco?
This form of dance emerged in the early 1800s in the US and featured all-male troupes of performers imitating African-American songs, dances and people using racist caricatures and blackface. It was the first theatrical form of tap dance and early musical theater.
What are minstrel shows?
This choreographer is known for bringing hip hop culture to the concert dance stage, especially with his first evening-length work, Rome and Jewels, in 2000.
Who is Rennie Harris?
Whirling Dervishes is a sacred ceremony inside of which mystical tradition?
What is Sufism?
Also correct: What is the Sufi branch of Islam?
This choreographer shocked audiences in Paris in 1913, causing a near riot with the premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring).
Who is Vaslav Nijinsky?
Swing dance and Lindy Hop blew up as wildly popular social dances of the 1930s and 40s at this ballroom in Harlem, paving the way for rock n' roll, jazz, and the Twist.
What is the Savoy Ballroom?
Because of this dancing warrior-king, who helped codify ballet during his rule as King of France, ballet terminology is entirely in French to this day.
Who is Louis XIV?
This concert dance by Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin explores pleasure, pain and madness in our contemporary political world using gaga movement language, and features a dancer in a blue dress running upstage right on a treadmill for the entire 70-minute piece.
What is Last Work (2015)?