Dance Quiz
Take this Dance Quiz then check the bottom to see how well you did!
1. The step 'pas de chat' literally means:
Step of the horse
Step of the chicken
Step of the day
Step of the cat
2. In the Nutcracker, what is the name of Clara's brother?
Claude
Fritz
Hank
Jean-Pierre
3. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Fred Astaire, and Savion Glover are all famous for what type of dance?
Modern
Tap
Jazz
Ballet
4. The Charleston was a dance craze in the:
1920's
1940's
1950's
1960's
5. Which of these is a connecting step in which one foot "chases" the other?
tombé
échappé
chassé
coupé
6. In which of these dance styles are you likely not to wear shoes?
Tap
Ballet
Hip hop
Modern
7. The name of the white swan in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is:
Ophelia
Odette
Oleta
Odile
8. Which of these was not a major figure in dance history?
Anna Pavlova
Isadora Duncan
Merce Cunningham
Lauren Bacall
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1.Step of the cat 5. chasse
2. Fritz 6. Modern
3. Tap 7. Odette
4. 1920's 8. Lauren Bacall
Dance Facts...
Ballet
(băaĺāa, băalāá) [Ital. ballare=to dance], classic, formalized solo or ensemble dancing of a highly controlled, dramatic nature
performed to music
History: The beginnings of ballet can be traced to Italy during the 1400's at the time of the Renaissance.
Catherine de Medicis, a member of the ruling family of Florence, became the queen of France in 1547. Catherine introduced
into the French court the same kind of entertainments that she had known in Italy. They were staged by Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx,
a gifted musician. Beaujoyeulx had come from Italy to be Catherine's chief musician. Ballet historians consider one of
Beaujoyeulx's entertainments, the Ballet Comique de la Reine, to be the first ballet. Professional ballet began with the king's
dancing academy. With serious training, the French professionals developed skills that had been impossible for the amateurs.
Similar companies developed in other European countries. One of the greatest was the Russian Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg,
whose school was founded in 1738. The French professional dancers became so skilled that they began to perform publicly in
theatres. But in 1760, the French choreographer Jean Georges Noverre criticized the professional dancers in his book Lettres
sur la danse, et sur les ballets (Letters on Dancing and Ballets). Noverre complained that the dancers cared too much about
showing their technical skills, and too little about the true purpose of ballet. This purpose, he said, was to represent characters
and express their feelings. Ballet technique was expanded, especially for women, to express the new ideas. For example, women
dancers learned to dance on their toes. This achievement helped them look like heavenly beings visiting the earth but barely
touching it. Romantic ballet presented women as ideal and, for the first time, gave them greater importance than men.
Male dancers became chiefly porters, whose purpose was to lift the ballerinas (leading female dancers) and show how light they
were.
Tap
tap dance n. A dance in which the rhythm is sounded out by the clicking taps on the heels and toes of a dancer's shoes.
History: National Tap Dancing Day is May 25. The phrase "tap dance" first appeared in print around 1928. By the
mid-ninteenth century, African-Americans had combined their footwork with Irish and British clogging steps to create a style
called "buck and wing." which became Modern Tap Dance. Tap dancing started with the Africans in early America who would
beat out rhythms in their dances with brushing and shuffling movements of the feet.Tap dance has a number of ancestors. It is
a mixture of the English clog dance, Irish step dancing and African drum rhythms and dance movements. African dances that
are directly linked to the nature of the tap dance are "juba" and "ring shouts," rollicking dances with a rhythmic beat. Tap also
contains the wild movements made popular in Swing and Lindy Hop, and the rolling glide so common to the Waltz and Foxtrot.
Three styles of tapping dance emerged at this time in the vaudeville. There were the kicking dances of chorus girls, namely, the
Charleston, which created a clacking noise on the stage. The louder the beat during these dances, the more the audience
cheered. There were the buck-and-wing styles of certain minstrel shows, featuring fast dancing in Dutch-style wooden-soled
shoes, and a style known as the soft-show, or a light tapping created by semi-stiff leather soles on hard floor. When these three
styles mingled, tap dance became a dance with a beat governed by noise, with a leather shoe and metal sole. The vaudeville
began to be governed by tap masters, among these, John Bubbles and "Slap and Happy" (Howard Daniel and Leslie Irvin).
Jazz
jazz dance n. Any of various dances characterized by the use of improvisation and influenced by rhythms and techniques of jazz
music.
History: The term “Jazz Dance” has been used to describe a forever-changing form of popular and creative dance movement ever s
ince the 1920s. It represents our popular culture, and as the culture changes, so does the appearance of jazz dance. Jazz dance
has character and the ability to make changes as a main fragment. It is this element that allows itself to shed its skin and take up
another for every Passing era. This means that the social dances of the 1920s like the Charleston and Black Bottom are known
as jazz dances, but so are the theatre dances of choreographer Bob Fosse. The style of Fred Astaire comes from jazz dancing,
ass well as many dances by the modern dance choreographer Alvin Ailey. The shortened sounds of tap dancing can be
considered as jazz dancing, but so can the body popping movements of break-dancing. The common subject binding these
obviously different things together is rhythm, or to be more exact, rhythm that is composed in African influences. Popular steps,
such as, the Gravevine, Step Ball Change, and Jazz Square.
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Dance Quotes...
" If you are going to walk on thin ice you might as well dance! "
" It takes an athlete to be a dance, but it takes an artist to be a dancer. "
" Dance is not an answer. Dance is a question. "Yes!" is the answer. "
" When the going gets tough, the tough go dancing! "
" You don't stop dancing from growing old, you grow old from stopping to dance. "
" If to dance is to dream, then you make dreams come true. "
" We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams. "
" To tap or not to tap...silly question!! "
" If dancing were any easier it would be called football. "
" If ballet was easy then everyone would be doing it. "
" Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another. "
" When in doubt......dance! "
" It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun the joy of dance. " ~Martha Graham
" Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion. "
"Dance isn't a form it's a way of life." ~anonymous
"Life is a dance, from one stage to the next."
"Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion."
"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking." ~Agnes De Mille
"The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing... ~Doris Humphrey, 1937
"You know you're dancing when tears of pain and happiness blend in with your sweat" ~anonymous
"Dancers are an admirable bunch of people. The way they work. The stress is extraordinary. It's a difficult career. I think it's hellish; the fact that they are over the hill as they're emotionally maturing. That calls for a terrific strength of character." ~Lady D. MacMillan
"Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other." ~George Borodin
"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words." ~Ruth St. Denis
"You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart." ~Unknown
"Dance for life." ~ Unknown
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