Study Guide 1 Flashcards
(35 cards)
Ghost dance
Members if tribes came together and danced in a circle. Bullets can’t hurt the men in the white shirts
What is elements of dance?
Body, action, time, space, energy
Powwow
Informal intertribal gatherings-recast into dance competitions
Trance dance
Ancestors possessed your body through dance
Mbende/jerusarema
Zezuru dance with characteristic wit- mouse runs fast
Bharata natyam
A solo dance for female dancer- performed in Hindu temples
Shiva
Dancing god in Hindu pantheon- cosmic dance
Mandala
Pullavas created a painting on the floor of a mandala- snakes
Natya shastra
A treatise that described and analyzes techniques- Indian dance
Kathakli
India dance- shows how dance and religion intersect with Indian life
Plato and dance
Performers pretend to feel emotion and show it in their dance
Dionysus
Did violence to members of families because of dance
Engungun
Spirits of ancestors take over body and dance
Aladura church
Nigerian Christians who practice a form of worship in these
Dance mania
In Europe outbreaks of dance, foaming at mouth - bad bread
Asante tribe/ ashantehene
Ballet focused, Asante dance to feel alive. The king is expected to dance for his people
Catherine de Medici
The classical and elaborate court spectacles, with how to produce them
Louis XIV
Came up with ballet
Ballet comique de la reine
Standard for all ballets, staged for a royal wedding
Ballet de la nuit
Performed at court during carnival season in feb 1653
Bedoyo
Each court had evolved it’s own versions of the classic Javanese court dance, the sublimely tranquil
Bugaku
Dance in japan- worlds oldest continuing tradition
Ameno-uzume
Japan- Amaterasu shut up in a cave and to lure her out the women danced
Classical dance theater
Time consuming. Spectators, emotional, large theater