Dance Moves
Show us a demi plie in first position.
What is demi plie?
The 5 basic elements of dance.
What is body, action, space, time, and energy?
Dances that use the movements of living things as inspiration
What are imitation dances?
Ballet originated in Italy and France in this setting
What are royal courts?
The period when tutus were shortened.
What is the Classical Period?
What is ballet?
The first African American dancer to be promoted as a principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre
Misty Copeland
Show us a shuffle tap step.
What is a shuffle?
The part of "time" that refers to how fast or how slow you are moving
What is tempo?
A Jewish dance usually performed at weddings
What is the Hora?
The nickname given to King Louis the 14th based on a ballet role he danced
What is The Sun King?
The first ballerina rivalry between Marie and Marie in this period.
What is the 18th Century/1700s?
The mother of modern dance who created contract and release techiniques
Who is Martha Graham?
He was the tap dancer for Happy Feet
Who is Savion Glover?
Show us a Lindy step.
What is a Lindy?
Level, size, pathway, and relationships are part of this element
What is Space?
These folk dances have their origins in war dance and often use sticks as props
What are Morris Dances?
Who is King Louis the 14th?
The period when pointe shoes were invented
What is the Romantic Period?
The 3 American Modern Dance Pioneers
Who are Isadora Duncan, Ted Shawn, and Ruth St. Denis?
He was the first African American tap dancer to stop performing in blackface, the first African American dancer to appear in a mixed-race movie dance scene, and he transitioned tap dancing to the balls of the feet.
Who is Bill Bojangles Robinson?
Show us a modern dance contract and release.
What is contract and release?
This person creates and teaches movements to performers
What is a choreographer?
This Italian dance was a medicine dance known to cure spider bites.
What is the tarantella?
The 2nd person in history to be named resident choreographer for the New York City Ballet
Who is Justin Peck?
The period when the center of ballet shifted from France
What is the Classical Period?
Creator of the modern dance masterpiece Revelations
Who is Alvin Ailey?
He created the choreography for the Broadway musical “Chicago”, his technique requires dances to turn legs and feet inward, and his choreography was often sensual and included pelvic isolations
Who is Bob Fosse?
Grab a partner and demonstrate the first six movements of the German Blacksmith dance.
What is the German blacksmith dance?
Person who created a system for recording the elements of dance.
Rudolf Von Laban
These two folk dance traditions merged to create tap dance
What is African and Irish dance?
Russian nobleman who founded Ballet Russes
Who is Serge Diaghilev?
The period of time when ballet themes were focused on ordinary people instead of nobility
What is the Romantic Period?
Created The Shakers which reflected the Shaker beliefs that men and women should dance separately, dance was an important part of worship, and dance should be individualistic based on a spiritual response.
Choreographer who blended a variety of genres as he created the choreography for West Side Story and Fancy Free
Who is Jerome Robbins?