Dance certification test questions and
answers
Supine position ✅✅Person lying flat on his or her back.
Syncopation ✅✅Variety of ryhtms that may include the off beats of the music.
Turnout ✅✅Rotation of legs
Martha's graham work ✅✅Contract and release
Grand jete ✅✅Both legs are off the ground
Stomping the feet in a striking motion on the floor ✅✅Main way for tap dancers to create
perssuasive sounds.
Swing ✅✅Social dance with east coast and west coast varieties
Samba ✅✅Originated in Brazil
Salsa dancing ✅✅Three step pattern, doesnt typical travel
Paso doble ✅✅After spanish bullfights, intended to represent the entrance of the bull
Shoes with steel shanks ✅✅Ballroom dance
Shoes with leather shanks ✅✅Ballet and pointe shoes
Barefoot ✅✅Modern dance feet wise
,Jazz shoe or boot with leather shank ✅✅Jazz dance feet wise
Cool down exercising such as stretching ✅✅Allow muscles of dancer to relax
Locating authentic music ✅✅Best first step of those listed for the teacher
Inappropriate lyrics ✅✅Teacher should be aware of the lyrics in a song for a school assembly
Aaaa ✅✅Describes cannon in which the same pattern repeats four times
Abab ✅✅Describes a rondo in which two patterns repeat again and again
Wardrobe supervisor ✅✅Person that is responsible for making sure that the costumes are ready
for performance
Stage manager ✅✅Concerned with calling cues. Taping out of the ground. Coordinating calls
Set designer ✅✅Draping and dressing the set
Video recording ✅✅Is a good way to analyze timing of eAch cue of each performance
Lighting designer ✅✅Responsible for hanging and focusing the lighting equipment
Belly dancers ✅✅Traditonally wear a hip scarf embellished with metal pieces to make noise
Hip hop ✅✅Developed on the streets and urban area
Fosse work ✅✅Highlighted the hands
, Harry fox ✅✅Vaudeville actor when he glided accross the floor with a movement that became
known as a fox trot
Sixteenth century ✅✅Dancing was used as a form of entertainment in the courts. It was called
ballet de cour (corps de ballet)
Middle ages ✅✅Dance was consired sinful
Eighteenth / nineteenth century ✅✅Ballet was an unique form of dance
Review of dance production ✅✅The use of the elements of dance to realize artistic vision
Cooperation ✅✅A class imitating a machine. Each person is part of
Kinestetic awareness ✅✅Knowing where ones body is in space. Moving around the stage
Practice Creative self expression ✅✅See a performance and draw a picture based on emotional
reaction
Abdominal muscles ✅✅Helps with balance
Sum active assessment ✅✅End of term. Students will be critiqued
Peer assessments ✅✅Allows students to reflect on their learning
Corporeality ✅✅Michael Bernard. Replaces word body. The body as imaginable and malleable
matter
Counterpoint ✅✅Relations between two melodic lines
Effort ✅✅Rudolph Laban. Mental impulse from which movements originates
answers
Supine position ✅✅Person lying flat on his or her back.
Syncopation ✅✅Variety of ryhtms that may include the off beats of the music.
Turnout ✅✅Rotation of legs
Martha's graham work ✅✅Contract and release
Grand jete ✅✅Both legs are off the ground
Stomping the feet in a striking motion on the floor ✅✅Main way for tap dancers to create
perssuasive sounds.
Swing ✅✅Social dance with east coast and west coast varieties
Samba ✅✅Originated in Brazil
Salsa dancing ✅✅Three step pattern, doesnt typical travel
Paso doble ✅✅After spanish bullfights, intended to represent the entrance of the bull
Shoes with steel shanks ✅✅Ballroom dance
Shoes with leather shanks ✅✅Ballet and pointe shoes
Barefoot ✅✅Modern dance feet wise
,Jazz shoe or boot with leather shank ✅✅Jazz dance feet wise
Cool down exercising such as stretching ✅✅Allow muscles of dancer to relax
Locating authentic music ✅✅Best first step of those listed for the teacher
Inappropriate lyrics ✅✅Teacher should be aware of the lyrics in a song for a school assembly
Aaaa ✅✅Describes cannon in which the same pattern repeats four times
Abab ✅✅Describes a rondo in which two patterns repeat again and again
Wardrobe supervisor ✅✅Person that is responsible for making sure that the costumes are ready
for performance
Stage manager ✅✅Concerned with calling cues. Taping out of the ground. Coordinating calls
Set designer ✅✅Draping and dressing the set
Video recording ✅✅Is a good way to analyze timing of eAch cue of each performance
Lighting designer ✅✅Responsible for hanging and focusing the lighting equipment
Belly dancers ✅✅Traditonally wear a hip scarf embellished with metal pieces to make noise
Hip hop ✅✅Developed on the streets and urban area
Fosse work ✅✅Highlighted the hands
, Harry fox ✅✅Vaudeville actor when he glided accross the floor with a movement that became
known as a fox trot
Sixteenth century ✅✅Dancing was used as a form of entertainment in the courts. It was called
ballet de cour (corps de ballet)
Middle ages ✅✅Dance was consired sinful
Eighteenth / nineteenth century ✅✅Ballet was an unique form of dance
Review of dance production ✅✅The use of the elements of dance to realize artistic vision
Cooperation ✅✅A class imitating a machine. Each person is part of
Kinestetic awareness ✅✅Knowing where ones body is in space. Moving around the stage
Practice Creative self expression ✅✅See a performance and draw a picture based on emotional
reaction
Abdominal muscles ✅✅Helps with balance
Sum active assessment ✅✅End of term. Students will be critiqued
Peer assessments ✅✅Allows students to reflect on their learning
Corporeality ✅✅Michael Bernard. Replaces word body. The body as imaginable and malleable
matter
Counterpoint ✅✅Relations between two melodic lines
Effort ✅✅Rudolph Laban. Mental impulse from which movements originates
