DANCE CERTIFICATION TEST STUDY QUESTIONS
Supine position - Answers- Person lying flat on his or her back.
Syncopation - Answers- Variety of ryhtms that may include the off beats of the music.
Turnout - Answers- Rotation of legs
Martha's graham work - Answers- Contract and release
Grand jete - Answers- Both legs are off the ground
Stomping the feet in a striking motion on the floor - Answers- Main way for tap dancers
to create perssuasive sounds.
Swing - Answers- Social dance with east coast and west coast varieties
Samba - Answers- Originated in Brazil
Salsa dancing - Answers- Three step pattern, doesnt typical travel
Paso doble - Answers- After spanish bullfights, intended to represent the entrance of
the bull
Shoes with steel shanks - Answers- Ballroom dance
Shoes with leather shanks - Answers- Ballet and pointe shoes
Barefoot - Answers- Modern dance feet wise
Jazz shoe or boot with leather shank - Answers- Jazz dance feet wise
Cool down exercising such as stretching - Answers- Allow muscles of dancer to relax
Locating authentic music - Answers- Best first step of those listed for the teacher
Inappropriate lyrics - Answers- Teacher should be aware of the lyrics in a song for a
school assembly
Aaaa - Answers- Describes cannon in which the same pattern repeats four times
Abab - Answers- Describes a rondo in which two patterns repeat again and again
Hip hop - Answers- Developed on the streets and urban area
, Fosse work - Answers- Highlighted the hands
Harry fox - Answers- Vaudeville actor when he glided accross the floor with a
movement that became known as a fox trot
Sixteenth century - Answers- Dancing was used as a form of entertainment in the
courts. It was called ballet de cour (corps de ballet)
Middle ages - Answers- Dance was consired sinful
Eighteenth / nineteenth century - Answers- Ballet was an unique form of dance
Review of dance production - Answers- The use of the elements of dance to realize
artistic vision
Cooperation - Answers- A class imitating a machine. Each person is part of
Kinestetic awareness - Answers- Knowing where ones body is in space. Moving around
the stage
Practice Creative self expression - Answers- See a performance and draw a picture
based on emotional reaction
Abdominal muscles - Answers- Helps with balance
Sum active assessment - Answers- End of term. Students will be critiqued
Peer assessments - Answers- Allows students to reflect on their learning
Corporeality - Answers- Michael Bernard. Replaces word body. The body as imaginable
and malleable matter
Counterpoint - Answers- Relations between two melodic lines
Effort - Answers- Rudolph Laban. Mental impulse from which movements originates
Effort actions - Answers- To press, to kick, to wring, to dab, to slash, to glide, to move,
to punch and to float
Movement qualities - Answers- Space, weight, time and flow.
Happening - Answers- For of interdisciplinary theatrical intervention, 1960s. Merce
Cunningham
Inversion - Answers- Rewinding movement
Supine position - Answers- Person lying flat on his or her back.
Syncopation - Answers- Variety of ryhtms that may include the off beats of the music.
Turnout - Answers- Rotation of legs
Martha's graham work - Answers- Contract and release
Grand jete - Answers- Both legs are off the ground
Stomping the feet in a striking motion on the floor - Answers- Main way for tap dancers
to create perssuasive sounds.
Swing - Answers- Social dance with east coast and west coast varieties
Samba - Answers- Originated in Brazil
Salsa dancing - Answers- Three step pattern, doesnt typical travel
Paso doble - Answers- After spanish bullfights, intended to represent the entrance of
the bull
Shoes with steel shanks - Answers- Ballroom dance
Shoes with leather shanks - Answers- Ballet and pointe shoes
Barefoot - Answers- Modern dance feet wise
Jazz shoe or boot with leather shank - Answers- Jazz dance feet wise
Cool down exercising such as stretching - Answers- Allow muscles of dancer to relax
Locating authentic music - Answers- Best first step of those listed for the teacher
Inappropriate lyrics - Answers- Teacher should be aware of the lyrics in a song for a
school assembly
Aaaa - Answers- Describes cannon in which the same pattern repeats four times
Abab - Answers- Describes a rondo in which two patterns repeat again and again
Hip hop - Answers- Developed on the streets and urban area
, Fosse work - Answers- Highlighted the hands
Harry fox - Answers- Vaudeville actor when he glided accross the floor with a
movement that became known as a fox trot
Sixteenth century - Answers- Dancing was used as a form of entertainment in the
courts. It was called ballet de cour (corps de ballet)
Middle ages - Answers- Dance was consired sinful
Eighteenth / nineteenth century - Answers- Ballet was an unique form of dance
Review of dance production - Answers- The use of the elements of dance to realize
artistic vision
Cooperation - Answers- A class imitating a machine. Each person is part of
Kinestetic awareness - Answers- Knowing where ones body is in space. Moving around
the stage
Practice Creative self expression - Answers- See a performance and draw a picture
based on emotional reaction
Abdominal muscles - Answers- Helps with balance
Sum active assessment - Answers- End of term. Students will be critiqued
Peer assessments - Answers- Allows students to reflect on their learning
Corporeality - Answers- Michael Bernard. Replaces word body. The body as imaginable
and malleable matter
Counterpoint - Answers- Relations between two melodic lines
Effort - Answers- Rudolph Laban. Mental impulse from which movements originates
Effort actions - Answers- To press, to kick, to wring, to dab, to slash, to glide, to move,
to punch and to float
Movement qualities - Answers- Space, weight, time and flow.
Happening - Answers- For of interdisciplinary theatrical intervention, 1960s. Merce
Cunningham
Inversion - Answers- Rewinding movement
