Dance Exam 1 questions well
answered graded A+
Dance - ANS ✔art form that is displayed through the human body using the medium of
movement; primary purpose to be the expression of inner feelings and emotions; performed for
social, ritual, entertainment, and other purposes
Functions of Dance - ANS ✔emotional experience; nonverbal communication; means of
establishing social unity; expressive of the unconscious of a society (grows out of history,
traditions of myths, legends, and fairytales); reflection of political climate and social
commentary
Tarantella - ANS ✔basic Folk dance steps; relationship to basic life and life with magical powers
Aesthetics - ANS ✔of or pertaining to the beautiful; as distinguished from the merely pleasing,
the moral , or the useful; responsive to the beautiful in art or nature
Dionysus - ANS ✔God of wine and fertility (Greek); Roman God, Bacchus identified w/ Roman
god Liber and Greek god Dionysis
Dithyramb - ANS ✔dance worshipping Dionysus; initially improvised music and dance w/ use of
circles; evolve into more of competition; later described as orgiastic and ecstatic rites (wild side)
Dionysian/Bacchanalian - ANS ✔orgiastic; involving drunkenness; sexual activity; a carouser
Pantomime - ANS ✔("rock stars") directly from Greek theater was universally appealing as Rome
was a 'melting pot' (quick change artists)
, Maypole dance - ANS ✔dance of fertility; harkened back to
Catherine de Medici (1519-1589) - ANS ✔Married Henri, King of France; brought several dance
masters from Italy; introduced new type of dance, later to be known as court ballet (ballet de
cour)
Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx (1535-1587) - ANS ✔head dance master; commissioned by Catherine
de Medici to choreograph what is considered 1st court ballet; Ballet Comique de la Reine (1581)
("lasted from 10pm-3am... cost 3,600,000 francs")
Louis XIV (1638-1715) - ANS ✔King of France (1643-1715); known as Sun King; Great lover of
dance; appeared in several court ballets; granted permission to establish 1st Academy of dance
Pierre Beauchamps (1631-1705) - ANS ✔1st ballet master of Academy of Dance; created 5 feet
positions used today; developed technique of "turned-out leg"; devised system of dance
notation; French is official language of ballet
Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) - ANS ✔1st director of the Royal Academy of Music and Dance
(1672); elevated status of opera and ballet from entertainment to professional art forms; later
known as Paris Opera (still exists today)
Thoinot Arbeau (1588) - ANS ✔wrote Orchesographie (preclassical music and dance forms:
pavene, allemande, galliard, sara)
Plie - ANS ✔bend knees in every position
Releve - ANS ✔"elevate" go on balls of feet or on top of toes (pointe)
answered graded A+
Dance - ANS ✔art form that is displayed through the human body using the medium of
movement; primary purpose to be the expression of inner feelings and emotions; performed for
social, ritual, entertainment, and other purposes
Functions of Dance - ANS ✔emotional experience; nonverbal communication; means of
establishing social unity; expressive of the unconscious of a society (grows out of history,
traditions of myths, legends, and fairytales); reflection of political climate and social
commentary
Tarantella - ANS ✔basic Folk dance steps; relationship to basic life and life with magical powers
Aesthetics - ANS ✔of or pertaining to the beautiful; as distinguished from the merely pleasing,
the moral , or the useful; responsive to the beautiful in art or nature
Dionysus - ANS ✔God of wine and fertility (Greek); Roman God, Bacchus identified w/ Roman
god Liber and Greek god Dionysis
Dithyramb - ANS ✔dance worshipping Dionysus; initially improvised music and dance w/ use of
circles; evolve into more of competition; later described as orgiastic and ecstatic rites (wild side)
Dionysian/Bacchanalian - ANS ✔orgiastic; involving drunkenness; sexual activity; a carouser
Pantomime - ANS ✔("rock stars") directly from Greek theater was universally appealing as Rome
was a 'melting pot' (quick change artists)
, Maypole dance - ANS ✔dance of fertility; harkened back to
Catherine de Medici (1519-1589) - ANS ✔Married Henri, King of France; brought several dance
masters from Italy; introduced new type of dance, later to be known as court ballet (ballet de
cour)
Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx (1535-1587) - ANS ✔head dance master; commissioned by Catherine
de Medici to choreograph what is considered 1st court ballet; Ballet Comique de la Reine (1581)
("lasted from 10pm-3am... cost 3,600,000 francs")
Louis XIV (1638-1715) - ANS ✔King of France (1643-1715); known as Sun King; Great lover of
dance; appeared in several court ballets; granted permission to establish 1st Academy of dance
Pierre Beauchamps (1631-1705) - ANS ✔1st ballet master of Academy of Dance; created 5 feet
positions used today; developed technique of "turned-out leg"; devised system of dance
notation; French is official language of ballet
Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) - ANS ✔1st director of the Royal Academy of Music and Dance
(1672); elevated status of opera and ballet from entertainment to professional art forms; later
known as Paris Opera (still exists today)
Thoinot Arbeau (1588) - ANS ✔wrote Orchesographie (preclassical music and dance forms:
pavene, allemande, galliard, sara)
Plie - ANS ✔bend knees in every position
Releve - ANS ✔"elevate" go on balls of feet or on top of toes (pointe)
