DANCE APPRECIATION 2303-FINAL UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

DANCE APPRECIATION 2303-FINAL UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. Webster's Definition of Dance
Answer:
rhythmic movement of the feet or body ordinarily to music

Question:
2. 4 early ways that dance was used
Answer:
ritual, imitation, fertility, spiritual

Question:
3. Choreographer Rudolph Von Laban stated that all movement is defined by the effort used, the time
taken, and what else?
Answer:
The shapes made in space

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4. Two reasons that dance was not always appreciated in comparison to other art forms
Answer:
clearly linked to music unable to preserve the choreography

Question:
5. List the 4 types of religious dance with an example of each
Answer:
spiritual-connect to the ancestors commemorative-celebrate an event medicine-ward of illness for health
fertility-fertilizing of the fields

Question:
6. What are the 6 art forms?
Answer:
dance-film-music-art-photography-& creative writing

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7. Ethnic Dance
Answer:
Group dances that grew from tribal rituals especially in non-western countries

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8. Folk Dance
Answer:
Dances of European origin

, Question:
9. Social Dance
Answer:
Dances appearing in our own culture

Question:
10. Types of Social Dance
Answer:
Courtship-War-Work-Communal

Question:
11. Two forms of "blending of cultures" dance
Answer:
Samba and Tap

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12. What is Court Dance?
Answer:
Dance created for the entertainment of aristocracy

Question:
13. How long has the "Bugaku" dance of Japan been performed?
Answer:
For at least 1200 years

Question:
14. Theatrical dance that grew from European Renaissance
Answer:
Ballet

Question:
15. When and where did ballet become popular?
Answer:
In 15th century Italy

Question:
16. Two rulers who greatly affected the popularity of Ballet, and their contribution.
Answer:
Catherine de Medici-brought dance master "Balthasar de Beaujoyeux" to France entrusted him with lavish
court entertainment Louis XIV-built the lavish palace of "Versailles" where nobles were invited and
expected to participate in ballet

Question:
17. What is the name of the first Ballet company to be permanently located in America? Who formed it?
Answer:
San Francisco Opera Ballet Adolph Bolm