Styles of Dance
This style of dance incorporates lyrical, ballet, modern, jazz as well as other styles.
What is contemporary?
To bend. Heels become lifted.
What is grande plie?
Creator of the Horton Technique
Who is Lester Horton?
How do people know that dance has dated back to centuries ago?
There were carvings of people dancing on cave walls.
How many degrees does it take to make a full turn?
360 Degrees
The fundamentals of this style are often used throughout all other styles of dance as well. It relies heavily on technique.
What is ballet?
To rise (not from a plie)
What is eleve?
Founded the American Dance Theater in 1958. Best known for "Revelations".
Who is Alvin Ailey?
How was dance used in religion or in tribes?
People would often do ceremonial dance for their god.
Also will take: To celebrate special events such as weddings and coming of age.
True or false? In a soutenu, we should turn away from the ballet barre to go to our other side.
False. You should turn towards.
A highly expressive style of dance that challenges the structured dance technique of classical ballet.
What is Modern dance?
Whipping of the head while turning.
What is spotting?
An American dancer, choreographer, and activist who is best known for incorporating African American, Caribbean, African, and South American movement styles and themes into her knowledge of ballet movement. She played an important role in the development of jazz and modern dance.
Who is Katherine Dunham?
Where did Ballet Originate?
Italy
True or false? Modern and social dance are the same thing.
False
These dances usually have quick footsteps, lots of leaps and turns and unique technical moves.
What is jazz?
You always start with this hand at the barre for ballet.
What is your left hand?
This Modern Dance Pioneer founded her technique on contract and release.
Who is Martha Graham?
Hip Hop dates back to what time period?
Early 1970s
How dancers hear, interpret, and dance to music.
What is musicality?
These dancers use metal on their shoes to create rhythmic patterns as they incorporate body movements.
Who are tap dancers?
Small/tight traveling steps (5th to 2nd to 4th)
What is Pas de Bouree?
Best known for his signature jazz style, which features sultry hip rolls, smooth finger snaps, jazz hands, turned-in pigeon toes and specific, detailed movements. Choreographed Work: Pippin, Chicago
Who is Bob Fosse?
The period of time which Ballet was invented.
What is the Renaissance Period?
The style of dance the story of "Giselle" is told in? You must be specific.
What is Romantic Ballet?