History
A national show that featured Black music artists and dancers who grooved their way down lines of onlookers.
What is Soul Train?
When a dancer's toes rotate inward from the ankle when pointing the toe
What is a sickled foot?
Used to create contractions, spirals, and upper body curves.
Spine
What is an 8 -count?
Measures how close a dancer is to the floor
What is a level?
Ms. Jada's Childhood Dance Teacher
Who is Homer Hans Bryant?
An Across the Floor exercise that warms up the feet and ankles
What is a prance?
What is turn out?
A sequence of movement that is made up on the spot.
What is improvistion?
Force applied to movement to accentuate the weight, attack, and/or flow of the movement
What is energy or dynamics?
Janet Jackson's hit album in the 1980s that unified and liberated cross racial tensions through music and dance.
What is Rhythm Nation
A transitional movement that Ms. Jada uses to take dancers on and off the stage
What is a tuck and run?
The strongest set of muscles a dancer needs to possess.
What are abdominals?
One dancer on stage.
What is a solo?
Describes the connection or proximity between dancers performing on stage?
What is a relationship?
The mother of modern dance, the inventor of the contraction
Who is Martha Graham?
A controlled rotation of the body that incorporates the use of spotting
What is a pirouette?
Hip Flexor, Raises the legs, Inserts in lower back and extends down the leg.
What is the Psoas Muscles?
When a dancer or group of dancers perform a sequence of movement one after the other.
What is a cannon?
How dancers are organized on stage, in rehearsal, or a performance space.
What is a formation?
Dance Historian and Choreographer who combined both dance performance with anthropology.
Who is Katherine Dunham?
90 degree extension of the leg behind the body
What is an arabesque?
Dense muscle tissue running down the side of the leg- Can be rolled out using a foam roller.
What is an IT Band?
Central idea, essence of a dance, dominant feature of movement in a dance
What is a motif?
Emotions, Intentions, Imagination, Senses, and Perceptions that a dancer brings to performance or choreography.
What is artistry?