Dance Exam 1questions and answers
Dance ✅✅Mode of expression, performed in a given form and style by the human body moving in
space. Dance occurs through purposefully selected and controlled rhythmic movements: the
resulting phenomenon is recognized as dance both by the performer and the observing members of
a given group.
Race ✅✅A socially constructed concept used to signify different types of human bodies based on
physical features
Ethnicity ✅✅Belonging to or deriving from the cultural, religious, or linguistic traditions or a
people or country
Ethnic absolutism ✅✅The perception that all ethnic minorities have the same norms and values
Pre-industrial ✅✅Social attributes shifted before the industrial revolution
Cartesian Dualism ✅✅Renee Descartes' philosophy that the immaterial mind and material body
are separate entities.
Implies a hierarchy as well; mind/intellect is greater than the body/physicality
Why do we care about this?
Now we know that the mind and body are connected-the body cannot function without the mind,
and the mind cannot be expressed without the body.
In western scholarship, written texts are highly valued and used to analyze culture. Desmond
purposes that dance, and the body be used as a text in cultural studies.
Transmission ✅✅Process/how does the dance move?
Process of being passed down/ it changes every time
Migration ✅✅Geographical pathway. Where it travels
Borrowing ✅✅Use of aesthetics with historical understanding and context
, Appropriation ✅✅Use of aesthetics without understanding or crediting presumed culture of
origin, generally benefiting a party with more power than culture of origin.
Generalizations ✅✅•Researched and represented
•Come from some type of data
Stereotypes ✅✅•Incomplete and singular
Diasporic ✅✅Term for dance migrated/transmitted due to involuntary movement of an ethnic
group
"Latin Dance" ✅✅1910: first boom of latin dance in the US
The Break ✅✅● Characteristics of hip hop
● DJ reads the dancers/crowd and creates the break
● Express personal style through the break
The Cypher ✅✅•Origins- ring shouts, pow wow dances, other African American forms
•The circle is a way for hip-hop dancers to assert their wholeness even as the edges of their lives
seem frayed unbounded-a way to build a world within a world
•A place for combat, competition, artistry, God, Holy dance, religious trance
•The cypher opens a space, creates a stage, creates a center where there was not one before
•In the cypher, krumpers are both protected and permitted to release aggression through dance
Benign Neglect ✅✅Not helping those in need
In the cypher, Krumpers are both protected and permitted to release aggression through dance
Clowning ✅✅Historical background in clowning
•1992 Thomas Johnson- "Tommy the Hip-Hop clown"
Dance ✅✅Mode of expression, performed in a given form and style by the human body moving in
space. Dance occurs through purposefully selected and controlled rhythmic movements: the
resulting phenomenon is recognized as dance both by the performer and the observing members of
a given group.
Race ✅✅A socially constructed concept used to signify different types of human bodies based on
physical features
Ethnicity ✅✅Belonging to or deriving from the cultural, religious, or linguistic traditions or a
people or country
Ethnic absolutism ✅✅The perception that all ethnic minorities have the same norms and values
Pre-industrial ✅✅Social attributes shifted before the industrial revolution
Cartesian Dualism ✅✅Renee Descartes' philosophy that the immaterial mind and material body
are separate entities.
Implies a hierarchy as well; mind/intellect is greater than the body/physicality
Why do we care about this?
Now we know that the mind and body are connected-the body cannot function without the mind,
and the mind cannot be expressed without the body.
In western scholarship, written texts are highly valued and used to analyze culture. Desmond
purposes that dance, and the body be used as a text in cultural studies.
Transmission ✅✅Process/how does the dance move?
Process of being passed down/ it changes every time
Migration ✅✅Geographical pathway. Where it travels
Borrowing ✅✅Use of aesthetics with historical understanding and context
, Appropriation ✅✅Use of aesthetics without understanding or crediting presumed culture of
origin, generally benefiting a party with more power than culture of origin.
Generalizations ✅✅•Researched and represented
•Come from some type of data
Stereotypes ✅✅•Incomplete and singular
Diasporic ✅✅Term for dance migrated/transmitted due to involuntary movement of an ethnic
group
"Latin Dance" ✅✅1910: first boom of latin dance in the US
The Break ✅✅● Characteristics of hip hop
● DJ reads the dancers/crowd and creates the break
● Express personal style through the break
The Cypher ✅✅•Origins- ring shouts, pow wow dances, other African American forms
•The circle is a way for hip-hop dancers to assert their wholeness even as the edges of their lives
seem frayed unbounded-a way to build a world within a world
•A place for combat, competition, artistry, God, Holy dance, religious trance
•The cypher opens a space, creates a stage, creates a center where there was not one before
•In the cypher, krumpers are both protected and permitted to release aggression through dance
Benign Neglect ✅✅Not helping those in need
In the cypher, Krumpers are both protected and permitted to release aggression through dance
Clowning ✅✅Historical background in clowning
•1992 Thomas Johnson- "Tommy the Hip-Hop clown"
