Quiz 3 Study Guide

People

100

Which female choreographer is considered the founder of modern dance?

Martha Graham

200

What is the name of the DJ who invented the breakbeat technique at a party for his sister? 

DJ Kool Herc

300

What's the name of the painter who began his artistic career as a New York graffiti artist in the late 1970's, covering the city with the tag "SAMO"?

Jean-Michel Basquiat

400

What dancer/choreographer drew inspiration from his childhood in Jim Crow era Texas to create the dance Revelations?  

Alvin Ailey

500

What British-born street artist installed a shredder in the frame of one of his paintings, programming it to go off if the painting were ever up for auction?   

Banksy

Places

100

Why were apartment buildings in the Bronx being burnt down in the 1970's and 1980's? (Give at least 1 of the 3 reasons)

1) The city had cut funding for fire departments across the city. These cuts were particularly harsh in the Bronx, causing many firehouses to shut down.

2) The landlords realized that they could make more money from the fire insurance than from tenants' rent. Landlords hired gangs to set fire to buildings.

3) Banks refused to grant loans for property in the South Bronx because of racist policy of redlining, arguing that the areas were too risky to investment in.

200

The Judson Theater Group was a group of experimental dancers and choreographers who met in a church in the 1960's. In which downtown Manhattan neighborhood is the church located?

Greenwich Village 

300

Where did break dancing originate? Name the borough.

The Bronx

400

Alvin Ailey spent the early part of his childhood in Texas. Then, he and his mother moved to LA where he became a dancer. In his adult life, where did he live and work for most of his adult life? Name the city.

New York

500

Hip hop and break dancing come from the Bronx, but in what neighborhood did Dapper Dan open his first store?

Harlem!

Modernism and postmodernism

100

Modern visual art was a response to several major events. Name at least 1.

1) Breakthroughs in psychotherapy

2) War

3) Urbanization

4) Industrialization

200

What is the difference between modern and post-modern dance? Name at least 1 of the 4 differences.

• Some post-modern dances were plotless and devoid of narrative; many traditional modern dances had strong narrative lines.
• Traditional modern dances employed trained dancers; some post-modern choreographers used untrained dancers.
• Traditional modern dances more often than not, utilized costumes; post-modern dances were often presented in everyday street clothes.
• Traditional modern dance was often presented in theaters; post-modern dance was presented in a number of different places

300

What makes hip hop post-modern?

Answers may vary, but a central way that hip hop is post-modern is because of how it is made. Hip hop (at least in the beginning) was created by taking sections of existing songs and changing it, making something new from something that already existed.

400

What did Martha Graham's father mean when he said, "the body does not lie"?

He meant that emotions are experienced and expressed through the body. 

500

According to Virgil Abloh, how much do you have to change something to make it into your own artistic creation? (Give the percentage)

3%