PE and Health Flashcards
often considered to have emerged as a rejection of, or rebellion against, classical ballet, although historians have suggested that socioeconomic changes in both the United States and Europe helped to initiate shifts in the dance world.
Modern Dance
Mother of Modern Dance, she is most famous for her death in 1927 at the age of 50, when her scarf got caught in automobiles wheel and strangled her.
said ballet was “ugly and against nature.” She wanted her “modern” dance style to be free and natural.
Isadora Duncan
American modern dance pioneer, introducing eastern ideas into the art
Ruth St. Denis
Developed a form of natural movement and improvisation techniques that were used in conjunction with her revolutionary lighting equipment and translucent silk costumes.
Loie Fuller
one of the first notable male pioneers of American modern dance.
Ted Shawn
“Mother of Contemporary Dance” She codified a vocabulary of Modern dance that still prevails and is the closest thing to a “mainstream” Modern dance
Martha Graham
“Queen Mother of Black Dance” An African-Americandancer, choreographer, author, educator, anthropologist, and social activist.
Katherine Mary Dunham
Incorporates a wide variety of dance styles and techniques – the most important element is it typically depicts a story or emotion.
Interpretative Dance
is a hybrid of ballet and modern dance.
Contemporary Dance
An abstract dance does not tell a story, nor is related to symbolic contents or any kind of associations with feelings, ideas or other elements than movement itself. A dance can be considered as abstract if it is seen through the frame of pure movement and/or its components.
Abstraction
It is the placement of bones in such a way that increases physiological effectiveness and health.
Alignment
A position in which the whole or upper body is extended, creating the form of an arch.
Arch
It is the basic unit used to measure time in both the choreographic and musical language.
Beat
It refers to the forward curving of the spine, starting from the pelvic zone.
Contraction
comes from the language of aerobics and it is used by some dancers to name a movement in which you transfer the weight forward, and put half of it (or more) on the leg that advances and bends; the leg behind may stay extended or may bend, too.
Lunge
It consists of a bodily activity for two, in which one person moves and the other follows as if he/she was a mirror.
Mirroring
It refers to a full turn on one leg, having the other leg bent, till the point where the foot reaches the knee (in a parallel position or with the classical turnout).
Pirouette
is part of a greater culture that began in the streets rather than having been developed by dance masters of famed academies and institutions, which is how many classical forms of dance originated.
Hip-hop Dance
The three unique aspects of Hip-hop dance are
- Freestyle Routines
- The Involvement of Battles
- Use of Ciphers
When Hip-hop dancers participate in ______ they do not adhere to any choreographic sequence of steps, but rather improvise their own moves on the spot.
Freestyle Routines
Hip-hop dance _____ may be between individual dancers or crews. They originate from informal dance contests that took place in the streets and popular night time establishments.
Battles
In using _____, hip-hop dancers form a circle. One dancer enters to perform a sequence of choreographed or freestyles moves while the remaining dancers in the circle yell out jeers or encouragements for the person performing
Ciphers
The word street dance arrived in the Philippines from the ____ during the _____ but only gained unparalleled popularity during the ______.
United States
1980’s
1990’s
The word street dance is a _______ of hip-hop dance that was specifically used by Filipino dancers.
Filipinized Version
