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UCSB DANCE 45 MIDTERM Exam
Questions and Answers
criticism - ANSWER✔✔-coming to understand
components of dance criticism - ANSWER✔✔-evaluation
description
interpretation
contextualization
evaluation - ANSWER✔✔-positive/negative assessment is natural, everyone has an opinion; integral part
of our critical thinking skills; evaluate your own opinions and why
description - ANSWER✔✔-analysis; providing a detailed and accurate account of an action/object
interpretation - ANSWER✔✔-explaining the meaning/significance of something; relate to accurate
description be aware of bias
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contextualization - ANSWER✔✔-placing an event w/in a specific context/in specific circumstances;
provides even more info& knowledge that audiences can use to understand and discuss a dance work's
details and meanings; the context of a dance can include different settings& situations
basic elements of dance - ANSWER✔✔-space, time, energy
space - ANSWER✔✔-gives body shape and design; where body is; where dance takes place
time - ANSWER✔✔-dance relies on time and exists over course of time
energy - ANSWER✔✔-our attitude towards mvmt/how movement is executed
flow - ANSWER✔✔-amt of energy taken in or let go
form and style - ANSWER✔✔---ex: form: ballet; style: romantic, Russian
function - ANSWER✔✔-role of dance for the person/culture
choreographic form - ANSWER✔✔---structure of a dance
--when a choreographer/ time period uses a recurring overall structure
choreographic content - ANSWER✔✔---what happens in the dance
--when a choreographer/ time period using recurring content
feeling/expression - ANSWER✔✔-"subject modification and experience of mvmt"
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--always includes relationship between indv and culture
rules, messages, meanings, cultural knowledge - ANSWER✔✔---culture= expressed throughout the
dance
--knowledge= knowing and transmitting culture
working definition of dance - ANSWER✔✔-the rhythmic and sequenced mvmts of the body w/o
necessarily a goal, but always w intent
positive space - ANSWER✔✔-anything you can touch
negative space - ANSWER✔✔-empty space left by positive space
corporeality - ANSWER✔✔-embodied knowing
kinesthetic - ANSWER✔✔-experiencing through the body
empathy - ANSWER✔✔-capacity to imagine with some accuracy what someone else is or will experience
Cambodia - ANSWER✔✔---classical court dance has been part of the national identity for over 1,000 yrs
-- big part of Cambodia socially and religiously
--classical dances are:
-slow (almost hypnotic), smooth
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FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
UCSB DANCE 45 MIDTERM Exam
Questions and Answers
criticism - ANSWER✔✔-coming to understand
components of dance criticism - ANSWER✔✔-evaluation
description
interpretation
contextualization
evaluation - ANSWER✔✔-positive/negative assessment is natural, everyone has an opinion; integral part
of our critical thinking skills; evaluate your own opinions and why
description - ANSWER✔✔-analysis; providing a detailed and accurate account of an action/object
interpretation - ANSWER✔✔-explaining the meaning/significance of something; relate to accurate
description be aware of bias
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contextualization - ANSWER✔✔-placing an event w/in a specific context/in specific circumstances;
provides even more info& knowledge that audiences can use to understand and discuss a dance work's
details and meanings; the context of a dance can include different settings& situations
basic elements of dance - ANSWER✔✔-space, time, energy
space - ANSWER✔✔-gives body shape and design; where body is; where dance takes place
time - ANSWER✔✔-dance relies on time and exists over course of time
energy - ANSWER✔✔-our attitude towards mvmt/how movement is executed
flow - ANSWER✔✔-amt of energy taken in or let go
form and style - ANSWER✔✔---ex: form: ballet; style: romantic, Russian
function - ANSWER✔✔-role of dance for the person/culture
choreographic form - ANSWER✔✔---structure of a dance
--when a choreographer/ time period uses a recurring overall structure
choreographic content - ANSWER✔✔---what happens in the dance
--when a choreographer/ time period using recurring content
feeling/expression - ANSWER✔✔-"subject modification and experience of mvmt"
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--always includes relationship between indv and culture
rules, messages, meanings, cultural knowledge - ANSWER✔✔---culture= expressed throughout the
dance
--knowledge= knowing and transmitting culture
working definition of dance - ANSWER✔✔-the rhythmic and sequenced mvmts of the body w/o
necessarily a goal, but always w intent
positive space - ANSWER✔✔-anything you can touch
negative space - ANSWER✔✔-empty space left by positive space
corporeality - ANSWER✔✔-embodied knowing
kinesthetic - ANSWER✔✔-experiencing through the body
empathy - ANSWER✔✔-capacity to imagine with some accuracy what someone else is or will experience
Cambodia - ANSWER✔✔---classical court dance has been part of the national identity for over 1,000 yrs
-- big part of Cambodia socially and religiously
--classical dances are:
-slow (almost hypnotic), smooth
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