Dancing through the Decades
Genres of Dance
Dance Vocabulary
Dancing through the Decades II
Dance Vocabulary II
100

The amount of years in a decade.

What is 10 years?

100

A synonym (a word that means the same thing) for the word 'genre'. 

What is: category, class, classification, categorization, group, grouping, bracket, type, sort, variety, style?

100

A dance with one person.

What is a solo?

100

The amount of decades in a century. 

What is 10 decades?

100

A dance with two people. 

What is a duet?

200

The style of dance and music that became popular in the 1970s; it was popular before Hip Hop emerged. 

What is Disco?

200

A style of dance that originated in the country of the Dominican Republic. 

What is Merengue or Bachata?

200

Simultaneous movement, moving in the same way at the same time.

What is unison?

200

The King of Ragtime.

Who is Scott Joplin?

200

The sequence of steps and movements in dance.

What is choreography?

300

The genre of music that became popular from 1900 - 1917.

What is Ragtime?

300

The style of dance that became popular in the 1920s.

What is The Charleston?

300

A movement of part of the body, especially a hand or the head, to express an idea or meaning.

What is a gesture?
300

The name of this dance style (which emerged in the 1980s) is also connected to an entire art form, its pillars are the DJ, rapping, graffiti art, and dance. 

What is Hip Hop?

300

The term used in dance when you practice something. 

What is rehearse?

400

A dance enslaved Africans would perform, in which they would mock/make fun of slave owners.

What is a cakewalk?

400

The style of dance that the Nutcracker is traditionally performed.

What is ballet?

400
To copy the movements of another person, as if they are your reflection.

What is to mirror, mirroring?

400

A dance step, inspired by a song, that became a dance craze in the 1960s. 

What is The Twist?

400
The limbs of your body, especially the hands and the feet. 

What are extremities?

500

A partner dance that developed and became popular in the 1930s; this dance developed in NYC, specifically in the neighborhood of Harlem. 

What is the Swing/Lindy Hop?

500

The style of dance we saw the Nutcracker performed in back in December.

What is Hip Hop?

500

A person who creates dances.

Who is a choreographer?

500

The TV show that showcased dancers performing dance moves. Dancers would create two lines, allowing two performers to dance in between the lines as they traveled closer to the camera. 

What is Soul Train?

500

Choreographic tool/element in which individuals and groups perform the same movement/phrase beginning at different times. 

What is a cannon?