Intro to Dance Exam 1 Review Questions and Answers Graded A+

Intro to Dance Exam 1 Review Questions and Answers Graded A+ appropriation - Answers borrowing of a dance form from one group by another transmission - Answers passing of a dance from body to body or through mass media migration - Answers moving of a dance from one geographical location to another whitening - Answers allows white middle and upper-class people to have the experience of embodying dance forms typically associated with communities of color as means of pleasure and without the implications of hierarchical associations upward mobility - Answers dance is refined, polished and desexualized ethnography - Answers method of dance research and approach to dance studies empathetic kinesthetic perception outsider status - Answers kinesthetic perception; combines mimesis(copying) with empathy(feeling like another) invisibilization - Answers the tendency to recognize European aesthetics and make invisible Africanists aesthetics in U.S. dance Embracing the Conflict - Answers prefers conflict and dissonance to efficient problem solving and resolution Polycentrism/polyrhythm - Answers movement emanates from multiple parts of the body, movement contains multiple rhythms High Affect Juxtaposition - Answers no transition between moods or feelings Ephebism - Answers youthful vitality, attack Hip Hop - Answers originated from the Bronx house parties in the mid 1970's 1)B-boying/Breaking 2)Music-MCing and Rap 3) Art-Graffiti Blackface Minstrelsy - Answers Most popular form of entertainment in the mid 19th century (s); based on racism and used as justification for slavery; example of racist appropriation (white borrowing from black) Buck, Wing,&Jig - Answers 19th century African American social dances whose remnants can be seen in African American dances today Cakewalk - Answers imitation of an imitation of an imitation, promenade couple dance involving high skipping & kicking in mockery of white high society Tap - Answers hybrid from African and Irish cultures In Dahomey - Answers (1903) first all black musical on Broadway Darktown Follies - Answers (1913) began trend of white producers going to Harlem to borrow black jazz dances Shuffle Along - Answers (1921) all black cast with largely white audience, major financial success features chorus girls and fast rhythmic dancing's shuffle along West Side Story - Answers Based on Romeo and Juliet; choreographed by Jerome Robbins; film version won numerous awards including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress (Rita Moreno-Puerto Rican actress; singer of America) Broadway Musical Theater - Answers Jazz and Tap typically performed in a musical theatre is a fusion of European and African American dance; has roots of blackface ministry; mid 1940's the rise of ballet in Musical Theatre Assimilation - Answers the expectation that immigrants conform to U.S. culture and custom; reflected in narrative and physically of West Side Story Ethnocentrism - Answers evaluation of another culture based on the standards of ones own culture