Dance exam 4 questions n answers
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How might you describe Twyla Tharp's childhood journey to becoming a choreographer? What
is a dance that we observed in the film? - correct answer ✔✔ a. Mother had her make lists of
things to get done
b. Made lists as a choreographer
c. Always busy with something and choreography shows this
d. Fusion
What was Isadora Duncan's effect on Russian ballet? How did it specifically influence the work
of Michel Fokine? - correct answer ✔✔ a. Brought new sense of beauty and freedom to
audiences
b. Saw her perform and was around her when she visited the imperial courts in Russia and tried
to incorporate this but the imperial courts did not like this so he left and went to France.
Ruth St. Denis was known for which dances? How is her style best described? - correct answer
✔✔ a. Nautch Dance and Egyptian Dance (1932), Radha, Incense
b. Exotic, free, didn't want to be anthropologically pure but wanted to find her
spiritual self and her entertainment self so she experiments with various cultural
kinds of dancing
How would you describe Martha Graham's personality? What sort of approach did she use with
her dancers? - correct answer ✔✔ a. Very disciplined and structured and demanding and her
way or the highway
b. She was quite a monarch
c. Core based contract and release training
, What was Katherine Dunham's major contribution to modern dance? - correct answer ✔✔ a.
Contribution of African American and afro Caribbean dance to the contemporary dance
dialogue are perhaps best exemplified by the work and influence of her
b. Early on she conceived the idea of formulating a dance style that would connect with the
roots of black experience in the Americas
c. Spent 18 months in the Caribbean doing research and the dances she sees help to inspire the
dances she makes at her company
d. Goal was to develop a technique that was as important to the white man as it was to the
negro
e. No one really inserted cultural heritage into group dancing and sharing it with others so now
all the poor people are coming together and sharing their commonality of poverty and wanting
to express themselves
f. Stormy weather
After George Balanchine came to the US for what ideas did he become known? - correct answer
✔✔ a. He wanted to make ballet more modern so he started to use minimalist but he is still
training people in the classical styles
b. Dance for dance sake
c. Dances didn't have a story they were just dances
How did Eiko, of the Japanese duo Eiko & Komo, describe the importance of modern dance? -
correct answer ✔✔ Known for presenting outdoor works
What were common themes, questions, and concerns that emerged in modern dance in the
first half of the twentieth century? - correct answer ✔✔ a. Not just about how to move but
about how art should be made and by whom
b. Dance fusion
c. Western expansion and exploring what it means to be an American
d. Idea of being curious and fascinated with how the US was expanding
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How might you describe Twyla Tharp's childhood journey to becoming a choreographer? What
is a dance that we observed in the film? - correct answer ✔✔ a. Mother had her make lists of
things to get done
b. Made lists as a choreographer
c. Always busy with something and choreography shows this
d. Fusion
What was Isadora Duncan's effect on Russian ballet? How did it specifically influence the work
of Michel Fokine? - correct answer ✔✔ a. Brought new sense of beauty and freedom to
audiences
b. Saw her perform and was around her when she visited the imperial courts in Russia and tried
to incorporate this but the imperial courts did not like this so he left and went to France.
Ruth St. Denis was known for which dances? How is her style best described? - correct answer
✔✔ a. Nautch Dance and Egyptian Dance (1932), Radha, Incense
b. Exotic, free, didn't want to be anthropologically pure but wanted to find her
spiritual self and her entertainment self so she experiments with various cultural
kinds of dancing
How would you describe Martha Graham's personality? What sort of approach did she use with
her dancers? - correct answer ✔✔ a. Very disciplined and structured and demanding and her
way or the highway
b. She was quite a monarch
c. Core based contract and release training
, What was Katherine Dunham's major contribution to modern dance? - correct answer ✔✔ a.
Contribution of African American and afro Caribbean dance to the contemporary dance
dialogue are perhaps best exemplified by the work and influence of her
b. Early on she conceived the idea of formulating a dance style that would connect with the
roots of black experience in the Americas
c. Spent 18 months in the Caribbean doing research and the dances she sees help to inspire the
dances she makes at her company
d. Goal was to develop a technique that was as important to the white man as it was to the
negro
e. No one really inserted cultural heritage into group dancing and sharing it with others so now
all the poor people are coming together and sharing their commonality of poverty and wanting
to express themselves
f. Stormy weather
After George Balanchine came to the US for what ideas did he become known? - correct answer
✔✔ a. He wanted to make ballet more modern so he started to use minimalist but he is still
training people in the classical styles
b. Dance for dance sake
c. Dances didn't have a story they were just dances
How did Eiko, of the Japanese duo Eiko & Komo, describe the importance of modern dance? -
correct answer ✔✔ Known for presenting outdoor works
What were common themes, questions, and concerns that emerged in modern dance in the
first half of the twentieth century? - correct answer ✔✔ a. Not just about how to move but
about how art should be made and by whom
b. Dance fusion
c. Western expansion and exploring what it means to be an American
d. Idea of being curious and fascinated with how the US was expanding
