Intro to Dance: Final Exam questions
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What were the modernists rebelling against? - correct answer ✔✔ Ballet
The modern revolution brought in two questions: - correct answer ✔✔ how to move, who could
move
The romantic period is marked by what aesthetic? - correct answer ✔✔ individual expression,
nature, feelings, and emotions
Ballet emphasizes the upright back. What body part did modern begin emphasizing? - correct
answer ✔✔ core
What are some of the arts that are considered "high art" or art - correct answer ✔✔ modern
and opera
What company did Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis form? - correct answer ✔✔ Denshawn
Who created the Hexetanz? - correct answer ✔✔ Wigman
Who was your favorite modernist and why? - correct answer ✔✔ Isadora Duncan, she is a free
soul
Isadora Duncan - correct answer ✔✔ first modern dancer, sought to reclaim the ancient Greek's
approach to dance and a natural form of movement. Rebelling against ballet, she danced
, barefoot took off her corset and lived on her own terms, with little regard to social morses of
the Victorian Era.
Ruth St. Denis - correct answer ✔✔ integrated body and soul, Eastern cultures to create her
dances, ethnological authenticity.
Ted Shawn - correct answer ✔✔ collaborated with St. Denis for a time, created all male
company, manly sport
Martha Graham - correct answer ✔✔ "mother of modern dance" inspired by American
experience, psychology, Appalachian spring, contract and release method.
Nerve Cunningham - correct answer ✔✔ collaborated with John Cage, believed in chance dance
and dissonance, blew up the system of Graham
Jose Limon - correct answer ✔✔ Mexican-American dancer, pieces about social justice, The
Moor's Pavane
Charles Weidman - correct answer ✔✔ humours pantomime, dance became more like
charades, collaborated with Doris Humphrey.
Katherine Dunham - correct answer ✔✔ First to bring African and Caribbean movements into
modern, first dance ethnologist
Alvin Ailey - correct answer ✔✔ created works about African American heritage, Lester Hoton's
technique.
Lester Horton - correct answer ✔✔ created a technique incorporating fallbacks and laterals
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What were the modernists rebelling against? - correct answer ✔✔ Ballet
The modern revolution brought in two questions: - correct answer ✔✔ how to move, who could
move
The romantic period is marked by what aesthetic? - correct answer ✔✔ individual expression,
nature, feelings, and emotions
Ballet emphasizes the upright back. What body part did modern begin emphasizing? - correct
answer ✔✔ core
What are some of the arts that are considered "high art" or art - correct answer ✔✔ modern
and opera
What company did Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis form? - correct answer ✔✔ Denshawn
Who created the Hexetanz? - correct answer ✔✔ Wigman
Who was your favorite modernist and why? - correct answer ✔✔ Isadora Duncan, she is a free
soul
Isadora Duncan - correct answer ✔✔ first modern dancer, sought to reclaim the ancient Greek's
approach to dance and a natural form of movement. Rebelling against ballet, she danced
, barefoot took off her corset and lived on her own terms, with little regard to social morses of
the Victorian Era.
Ruth St. Denis - correct answer ✔✔ integrated body and soul, Eastern cultures to create her
dances, ethnological authenticity.
Ted Shawn - correct answer ✔✔ collaborated with St. Denis for a time, created all male
company, manly sport
Martha Graham - correct answer ✔✔ "mother of modern dance" inspired by American
experience, psychology, Appalachian spring, contract and release method.
Nerve Cunningham - correct answer ✔✔ collaborated with John Cage, believed in chance dance
and dissonance, blew up the system of Graham
Jose Limon - correct answer ✔✔ Mexican-American dancer, pieces about social justice, The
Moor's Pavane
Charles Weidman - correct answer ✔✔ humours pantomime, dance became more like
charades, collaborated with Doris Humphrey.
Katherine Dunham - correct answer ✔✔ First to bring African and Caribbean movements into
modern, first dance ethnologist
Alvin Ailey - correct answer ✔✔ created works about African American heritage, Lester Hoton's
technique.
Lester Horton - correct answer ✔✔ created a technique incorporating fallbacks and laterals
