DANCE EXPERIENCE FINAL questions
and correct answers
*NO* - correct answer ✔✔ Do you have to be a dancer to appreciate its value and meaning?
One must ask what he or she saw or heard that evoked such a personal experience. Was it a
specific movement, feeling, theme, visual, song, etc.? The main idea is to ask *'what made you
feel that way?'* - correct answer ✔✔ Viewing a dance performance is a very personal
experience. In order to fully appreciate what you are seeing when you are having a dance
experience, what questions can you be asking yourself?
1. Collaborative art
2. Preservation of the customs of an ethic group
3. Pure enjoyment
4. Meeting partners - correct answer ✔✔ Dance is an essential part of this world culture. One of
these world "subcultures" is dance as performance. Name four more:
*CONCERT* dance - correct answer ✔✔ Modern dance and Ballet are considered to be
1. observation
2. description
3. explanation
4. interpretation
5. evaluation - correct answer ✔✔ When participating in a new dance experience a checklist
can help to approach any type of dance in any cultural context. The five stages of looking at
*cross-cultural* dance are:
,Dance uses the movement of the human body to communicate as well as discover cultural
roots. This allows us to understand and appreciate different lifestyles. Also, cross-cultural study
of dance allows the unity of distinct cultures into one... all internationally connected by our
differences. - correct answer ✔✔ We know in this burgeoning international culture there is a
lack of understanding and acceptance of other lifestyles. How can dance be a way to educate
and combat this intolerance and hate?
- Katherine Dunham
- Pearl Primus - correct answer ✔✔ two very famous African American trained
dancers/anthropologists who came to prominence in the Harlem Renaissance. They were
instrumental in researching Afro Caribbean dance and bringing an embodied knowledge of the
cultural meaning of the African American dance experience.
TRUE - correct answer ✔✔ Dance can be considered a *"nutrient"* for some as it feeds their
soul.
swishing around in mother's womb - correct answer ✔✔ What is the FIRST thing we can
imagine each individual experienced as movement?
Russia - correct answer ✔✔ For more than 100 years, this country has been a major center for
classical ballet producing such great dancers and choreographers as *Mikhail Baryshnikov* and
*George Balanchine*
FALSE - correct answer ✔✔ language spoken in ballet class is uniform throughout the world?
gesture - correct answer ✔✔ a communication form (using the body in dance) that is in our
bones, stronger than the content of words or meaning of words.
men - correct answer ✔✔ While *Bhangra* is now a celebration for everyone, who did it used
to be danced by exclusively?
, farmers, harvest - correct answer ✔✔ *Bhangra* is a folk dance in India danced by _________
to celebrate the _________
gods - correct answer ✔✔ West Africa is at the crossroads of competing faiths. The Yoruba
people dance for and some with their ....
TRUE - correct answer ✔✔ Dance in Christian worship has been very controversial.
*maypole* - correct answer ✔✔ The ___________ dance where dancers intertwine ribbons
attached to a tall pole is a remnant of a pagan fertility rite.
folk - correct answer ✔✔ When religious dances leave the church and continue to preserve
one's heritage and traditions they become ______ dances.
*Yoruba* - correct answer ✔✔ In the _____________ tradition the physical is there to serve the
spiritual.
ancestors - correct answer ✔✔ The Egungun dancers of Nigeria's Yoruba people wear masks to
represent their _____________
wear *white*, movements are slow and graceful. - correct answer ✔✔ *Osun* is the protector
of children. In the dance for Osun, what color do the dancers wear AND describe the qualities in
their movements.
ward off evil - correct answer ✔✔ Virgin girls are used in the *serpent* (or snake) *dance* in
the Hindu religion of India. This dance is meant to
Bharatanatyam: *women*
and correct answers
*NO* - correct answer ✔✔ Do you have to be a dancer to appreciate its value and meaning?
One must ask what he or she saw or heard that evoked such a personal experience. Was it a
specific movement, feeling, theme, visual, song, etc.? The main idea is to ask *'what made you
feel that way?'* - correct answer ✔✔ Viewing a dance performance is a very personal
experience. In order to fully appreciate what you are seeing when you are having a dance
experience, what questions can you be asking yourself?
1. Collaborative art
2. Preservation of the customs of an ethic group
3. Pure enjoyment
4. Meeting partners - correct answer ✔✔ Dance is an essential part of this world culture. One of
these world "subcultures" is dance as performance. Name four more:
*CONCERT* dance - correct answer ✔✔ Modern dance and Ballet are considered to be
1. observation
2. description
3. explanation
4. interpretation
5. evaluation - correct answer ✔✔ When participating in a new dance experience a checklist
can help to approach any type of dance in any cultural context. The five stages of looking at
*cross-cultural* dance are:
,Dance uses the movement of the human body to communicate as well as discover cultural
roots. This allows us to understand and appreciate different lifestyles. Also, cross-cultural study
of dance allows the unity of distinct cultures into one... all internationally connected by our
differences. - correct answer ✔✔ We know in this burgeoning international culture there is a
lack of understanding and acceptance of other lifestyles. How can dance be a way to educate
and combat this intolerance and hate?
- Katherine Dunham
- Pearl Primus - correct answer ✔✔ two very famous African American trained
dancers/anthropologists who came to prominence in the Harlem Renaissance. They were
instrumental in researching Afro Caribbean dance and bringing an embodied knowledge of the
cultural meaning of the African American dance experience.
TRUE - correct answer ✔✔ Dance can be considered a *"nutrient"* for some as it feeds their
soul.
swishing around in mother's womb - correct answer ✔✔ What is the FIRST thing we can
imagine each individual experienced as movement?
Russia - correct answer ✔✔ For more than 100 years, this country has been a major center for
classical ballet producing such great dancers and choreographers as *Mikhail Baryshnikov* and
*George Balanchine*
FALSE - correct answer ✔✔ language spoken in ballet class is uniform throughout the world?
gesture - correct answer ✔✔ a communication form (using the body in dance) that is in our
bones, stronger than the content of words or meaning of words.
men - correct answer ✔✔ While *Bhangra* is now a celebration for everyone, who did it used
to be danced by exclusively?
, farmers, harvest - correct answer ✔✔ *Bhangra* is a folk dance in India danced by _________
to celebrate the _________
gods - correct answer ✔✔ West Africa is at the crossroads of competing faiths. The Yoruba
people dance for and some with their ....
TRUE - correct answer ✔✔ Dance in Christian worship has been very controversial.
*maypole* - correct answer ✔✔ The ___________ dance where dancers intertwine ribbons
attached to a tall pole is a remnant of a pagan fertility rite.
folk - correct answer ✔✔ When religious dances leave the church and continue to preserve
one's heritage and traditions they become ______ dances.
*Yoruba* - correct answer ✔✔ In the _____________ tradition the physical is there to serve the
spiritual.
ancestors - correct answer ✔✔ The Egungun dancers of Nigeria's Yoruba people wear masks to
represent their _____________
wear *white*, movements are slow and graceful. - correct answer ✔✔ *Osun* is the protector
of children. In the dance for Osun, what color do the dancers wear AND describe the qualities in
their movements.
ward off evil - correct answer ✔✔ Virgin girls are used in the *serpent* (or snake) *dance* in
the Hindu religion of India. This dance is meant to
Bharatanatyam: *women*
