Dance Exam 1 Review questions and
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What are some of the places dance can been seen today? - correct answer ✔✔ In performances
and movies
Where/how can one participate in dance on a daily basis? - correct answer ✔✔ In the shower
or by going to practice
How would you define the term "dance"? - correct answer ✔✔ move rhythmically to music,
typically following a set sequence of steps.
What evidence is there that dance existed during the Paleolithic - Neolithic times? - correct
answer ✔✔ Paleolithic(30,000-10,000) and Neolithic(7000-3000) Supports there have been
dancing bc of cave drawing that depict movement
What is the difference between ceremonies and rituals? - correct answer ✔✔ A ritual refers to
group of actions performed for their symbolic value. On the other hand, a ceremony is
performed on a special occasion. ... On the other hand, the purpose of ceremonies is to bring
people together on a specific occasion. In other words, a ceremony is a rite of passage in the life
of a human being.
Where are the Yanomami tribes from? - correct answer ✔✔ Yanomami, also spelled Yanomamö
or Yanoamö, South American Indians, speakers of a Xirianá language, who live in the remote
forest of the Orinoco River basin in southern Venezuela and the northernmost reaches of the
Amazon River basin in northern Brazil.
What were some of the rituals that involved dance during the Paleolithic - Neolithic times? -
correct answer ✔✔ Commemoration type rituals that celebrated death and birth
, In which countries did dance begin to thrive during the Ancient Period? - correct answer ✔✔
The earliest findings have pinpointed the origins of ancient dances in 9000-year-old India or
5300-year-old Egypt, but the records more common infusion of dance into a modern culture can
be found from Ancient Greece, China, and India.
What is Bharata Natyam? What are some characteristics of this kind of dance? - correct answer
✔✔ Bharatanatyam style is noted for its fixed upper torso, bent legs and knees flexed
(Aramandi) combined with spectacular footwork, and a sophisticated vocabulary of sign
language based on gestures of hands, eyes, and face muscles.
How did Greek societies and European cultures view/interact with dance in the Medieval
Period? Why? - correct answer ✔✔ They mainly interacted with plays and carols that depicted
change. Dance was a form of communication/entertainment more around the Renaissance.
Describe the "Dance of Death". - correct answer ✔✔ The Dance of Death (or Danse Macabre) is
an allegorical confrontation of the living with death. It is both a literary and a visual theme that
aims to remind readers and viewers of their own mortality by presenting a range of social
representatives who are summoned to die
What famous dancing came out of the Islamic culture during medieval times? What are some
characteristics of this style of dance? - correct answer ✔✔ A ritual dance was instituted in the
Sufi mystical order of the Mawlawiyyah (Mevleviyah) in Turkey
Ballet as a professional art form developed during which time period? - correct answer ✔✔
Ballet traces its origins to the Italian Renaissance, when it was developed as a court
entertainment. During the 15th and 16th centuries the dance technique became formalized
How did the view of dance change during the Renaissance Period? - correct answer ✔✔ They
range from slow, stately dances (bassadance, pavane, almain) to fast, lively dances (galliard,
coranto, canario). The former, in which the dancers' feet did not leave the ground were styled
the dance basse while energetic dances with leaps and lifts were called the haute dance.
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What are some of the places dance can been seen today? - correct answer ✔✔ In performances
and movies
Where/how can one participate in dance on a daily basis? - correct answer ✔✔ In the shower
or by going to practice
How would you define the term "dance"? - correct answer ✔✔ move rhythmically to music,
typically following a set sequence of steps.
What evidence is there that dance existed during the Paleolithic - Neolithic times? - correct
answer ✔✔ Paleolithic(30,000-10,000) and Neolithic(7000-3000) Supports there have been
dancing bc of cave drawing that depict movement
What is the difference between ceremonies and rituals? - correct answer ✔✔ A ritual refers to
group of actions performed for their symbolic value. On the other hand, a ceremony is
performed on a special occasion. ... On the other hand, the purpose of ceremonies is to bring
people together on a specific occasion. In other words, a ceremony is a rite of passage in the life
of a human being.
Where are the Yanomami tribes from? - correct answer ✔✔ Yanomami, also spelled Yanomamö
or Yanoamö, South American Indians, speakers of a Xirianá language, who live in the remote
forest of the Orinoco River basin in southern Venezuela and the northernmost reaches of the
Amazon River basin in northern Brazil.
What were some of the rituals that involved dance during the Paleolithic - Neolithic times? -
correct answer ✔✔ Commemoration type rituals that celebrated death and birth
, In which countries did dance begin to thrive during the Ancient Period? - correct answer ✔✔
The earliest findings have pinpointed the origins of ancient dances in 9000-year-old India or
5300-year-old Egypt, but the records more common infusion of dance into a modern culture can
be found from Ancient Greece, China, and India.
What is Bharata Natyam? What are some characteristics of this kind of dance? - correct answer
✔✔ Bharatanatyam style is noted for its fixed upper torso, bent legs and knees flexed
(Aramandi) combined with spectacular footwork, and a sophisticated vocabulary of sign
language based on gestures of hands, eyes, and face muscles.
How did Greek societies and European cultures view/interact with dance in the Medieval
Period? Why? - correct answer ✔✔ They mainly interacted with plays and carols that depicted
change. Dance was a form of communication/entertainment more around the Renaissance.
Describe the "Dance of Death". - correct answer ✔✔ The Dance of Death (or Danse Macabre) is
an allegorical confrontation of the living with death. It is both a literary and a visual theme that
aims to remind readers and viewers of their own mortality by presenting a range of social
representatives who are summoned to die
What famous dancing came out of the Islamic culture during medieval times? What are some
characteristics of this style of dance? - correct answer ✔✔ A ritual dance was instituted in the
Sufi mystical order of the Mawlawiyyah (Mevleviyah) in Turkey
Ballet as a professional art form developed during which time period? - correct answer ✔✔
Ballet traces its origins to the Italian Renaissance, when it was developed as a court
entertainment. During the 15th and 16th centuries the dance technique became formalized
How did the view of dance change during the Renaissance Period? - correct answer ✔✔ They
range from slow, stately dances (bassadance, pavane, almain) to fast, lively dances (galliard,
coranto, canario). The former, in which the dancers' feet did not leave the ground were styled
the dance basse while energetic dances with leaps and lifts were called the haute dance.
