Famous Dancers
Which dancer is known for his famous stair dance?
Who is Bill "Bojangles" Robinson?
The process of spontaneously creating movement.
What is Improvisation?
Quick, Small, Circular Motion with your fist, and lean into a freeze position.
What is the Whoa?
Tap Dancing Penguins
What is Happy Feet?
What is Contemporary?
This female contemporary dancer has appeared on SYTYCD, Broadway, and The Big Screen. She has graced the cover of Dance Spirit Magazine and graduated from the Tisch School of Arts in NYC.
Who is Ida Saki?
This term is used both as a basic rudiment of drumming and a tap step consisting of 4 even sounds.
What is a paradiddle?
What is flossing?
The star characters in this film are Zuko, Rizzo, & Frenchy.
What is Grease?
This style of dance is done with a partner. For this reason, it is known as a social dance, because of the interaction between the two.
What is Ballroom?
She became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in ABT's 75-year history.
Who is Misty Copeland?
En Cloche.
What is Like a Bell?
What is the Hokey Pokey?
Based on a popular comic strip in the 1920's featuring songs such as, I think I'm Gonna Like it Hear, Easy Street, & Maybe.
What is Annie?
A type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.
What is Ballet Dance?
Tap legend and movie star, he made his mark on broadway earning 4 Tony Award Nominations and one win. After his death a postage stamp was dedicated in his honor.
Who is Gregory Hines?
The last part of a piece of music, a performance, or a public event.
What is a finale?
A dance move in which the dancer moves backwards while seemingly walking forwards.
What is the Moonwalk?
Longest running musical in Broadway History. Choreographed by Bob Fosse.
What is Chicago?
A mixture of numerous styles including Western Popular, Indian Folk, Modern Jazz, & Belly Dancing.
What is Bollywood Dance?
Who is the man, the myth, the legend, Joe Lanteri?
Inward and Outward
What is En Desdans and En Dehors?
Lively dance of the 1920's that involved turning the knees inward and kicking out the lower legs.
What is the Charleston?
A sung-through musical, composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the 1939 poetry collection by T.S. Eliot.
What is Cats?
This dance form originated in NYC during the late 1960s and early 1970s from martial arts ,moves developed by street gangs.
What is Break Dancing?