Dance Test

5 Written Questions

1. it ensures that the dancer will participate in the warm-up
2. kinesphere
3. may help students identify new areas to improve, or to understand the teacher's corrections better
4. produce a sense of comedy or surrealisma
5. master juba

5 Matching Questions

1. a student who has excessive difficulty balancing, despite following appropriate corrections
2. she was an award-winning choreographer of both broadway and hollywood jazz and modern dance
3. the intentional quality of the path taken by a body part or a body through space during a movement. direct or indirect
4. placing the entire foot on the floor without a weight change
5. is the degree of the force of body weight introduced into a movement

1. a twyla tharp
2. b stomp
3. c may have a vision impairment
4. d weight
5. e space

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. the complete list of dance compositions that a group or company is prepared to perform
   1. a repertoire is
   2. pointe work
   3. Flamenco dance is
   4. the hip joint is a
2. merce cunningham
   1. they were notable later-generation choreographers
   2. he was a legendary avant garde choreographer
   3. in generating new choreography
   4. movements are repeated
3. lester horton
   1. modern jazz style that is an exploratory style. mixes in ballet
   2. modern dance technique style that explores fall and recovery
   3. late modern dance technique that created dances without any attached historical, cultural or philosophical meanings
   4. modern dance technique that appears in the lateral T shape his dancers assume - a one-leg balance with the torso tilted off-center and the other leg extended to the side in a counterbalance
4. a contact improvisation exercise
   1. in order to remain out of the audience's view until completely entering the stage, a dancer should
   2. combination: sustained time/direct space/light weight
   3. in order to improve student's kinesthetic awareness and originality, a teacher might assign
   4. more is added to the original movement
5. developpe
   1. to develop or grow, drawing the working foot up the standing leg and then extending it outward
   2. to strike, striking the floor with the foot in a brushing movement
   3. to disengage, brushing foot thru tendu to slightly leave the ground
   4. movement of a limb away from the midline of the body

5 True/False Questions

1. the original movement is the question and the new movement is the answer → instrumentation

   True        False

2. small, quick jumps in place such as changements, temps leves, and assembles → doris humphrey

   True        False

3. If a choreographer requires a ballet dancer to lift another dancer of roughly the same size, how might the dancer who is doing the lifting prepare? → by beginning a weight training program for the upper body.

   True        False

4. modern dance technique that transformed everyday movement in to the absurd or dramatic → extension of the working leg

   True        False

5. outward rotation; turning a limb outward, toward the back of the body → eversion

   True        False