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Question 1: If you were shown a dance that was meant be an authentic reconstruction of the choreography of Fililipo Taglioni,and in it you saw the following things, please put a true by what would be authentic and a false by what should not be found there.

Women in flowing gauze skirts. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 2: Catherine de Medici produced the first ballet, La Comique de la Reine, in preparation for her niece’s marriage in France.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 3: If you were shown a dance that was meant be an authentic reconstruction of the choreography of Marius Petipa and in it you saw the following things, please put a true by what would be authentic and a false by what should not be found there.

Sequences of steps based purely upon the five positions of the feet codified in 1651 for Louis XIV of France. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 4: The class structure that is used to this day is based off of King Louis XIV codification of dance in the 17th century. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 5: If you were shown a dance that was meant to be an authentic reconstruction of the choreography of Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx, and in it you saw the following things, please put a true by what would be authentic and a false by what should not be found there.

Erect and noble posture. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 6: Sergei Diaghilev brought Russian dancers to Paris, providing color and controversy, and revolutionized the arts at the beginning of the 20th Century. Type: True or False

Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 7: George Balanchine was the founder of the San Francisco Ballet after retiring from the Ballet Russes. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): False Question 8: If you were shown a dance that was meant be an authentic reconstruction of the choreography of George Balanchine, and in it you saw the following things, please put a true by what would be authentic and a false by what should not be found there.

Great speed and anticipatory attack. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 9: If you were shown a dance that was meant be an authentic reconstruction of the choreography of George Balanchine, and in it you saw the following things, please put a true by what would be authentic and a false by what should not be found there.

Spectacularly large and elaborately decorated tutus Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): False Question 10: The first ballerina to dance en pointe was Marie Taglioni who premiered in the ballet La Sylphide. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 11: Marius Petipa was the first person to choreograph a ballet. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): False Question 12: If you were shown a dance that was meant to be an authentic reconstruction of the choreography of Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx, and in it you saw the following things, please put a true by what would be authentic and a false by what should not be found there.

Intricate patterns and foot work.

Type: True or False

Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 13: If you were shown a dance that was meant be an authentic reconstruction of the choreography of Fililipo Taglioni, and in it you saw the following things, please put a true by what would be authentic and a false by what should not be found there.

A scenario in which the hero grows rich and wins the girl of his dreams.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 14: Women were some of the first dancers to perform Ballet in a theater setting. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 0/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 15: If you were shown a dance that was meant be an authentic reconstruction of the choreography of Marius Petipaand in it you saw the following things, please put a true by what would be authentic and a false by what should not be found there.

High cut leotards to show off high kicking legs. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): False Question 16: If you were shown a dance that was meant be an authentic reconstruction of the choreography of Marius Petipaand in it you saw the following things, please put a true by what would be authentic and a false by what should not be found there.

Many different arabesques performed on pointe. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 17: Romantic ballet is defined as having long flowing tutus, a slightly bent port de bras, with supernatural and ethereal themes through out the ballet. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 18:

If you were shown a dance that was meant be an authentic reconstruction of the choreography of Fililipo Taglioni, and in it you saw the following things, please put a true by what would be authentic and a false by what should not be found there.

Women performing dizzying turns on the tips of their toes but executing very few jumps. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): False Question 19: Vaslav Nijunsky was a member of Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe and choreographed the infamous Rite of Spring (1913). Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 20: If you were shown a dance that was meant be an authentic reconstruction of the choreography of George Balanchine, and in it you saw the following things, please put a true by what would be authentic and a false by what should not be found there.

A witty depiction of the music through movement. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True

Question 1: Denishawn was one of the most important modern dance schools that produced 5 of the leading pioneers (Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Jack Cole, Lester Horton, and Charles Weidman.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 2: Modern Dance was founded by men and was a direct rebellion against female prominence in Ballet.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): False Question 3: Merce Cunningham established the post modern dance movement.

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Points Awarded: 0/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 4: Alvin Ailey is the founder of Alvin Ailey Dance Company which is a primarily African American company that continues to tour and thrive to this day. His dancers train in Graham Modern Technique.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 0/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 5: Jose Limon was a Mexican American cultural ambassador and a student of Bella Lewitsky.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): False Question 6: Isadora Duncan was inspired by Grecian dress and art. She was often found dancing barefoot in long flowing materials.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 7: Ted Shawn founded Jacobs Pillow and paved the way for male dancers.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 8: The characteristics of modern dance technique are; natural human movements, the of a round spine, showing the use of gravity and floor work.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 9: While Isadora Duncan’s modern dance style was free flowing and fluid, she used dance to also express political and personal emotions.

Type: True or False

Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 10: Martha Graham founded the concept of “fall and recovery” in modern dance technique.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): False Question 11: Ruth St Denis was a well known student of Martha Graham.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): False Question 12: Paul Taylor studied with Martha graham and he is still alive, choreographing for his company, The Paul Taylor Dance Company.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): False Question 13: Steve Paxton is known for his contribution to post modern dance through the establishment of contact improvisation.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 14: Post modern dance is a reaction to the compositional and presentational constraints of modern dance.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 15: Trisha Brown was a Judson church dancer whose contribution to post modern dance is release technique.

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Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 16: Merce Cunningham explored the idea of who is responsible for the meaning of a dance.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 17: Rudolph Laban was interested in human movement and efficiency. He invented a system to notate shape, dierection and speed of movement. This is known as Labanotation.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 18: Unlike Isadora who strove for more naturalism, Ruth St Denis favored more stylized and dramatic movement.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 19: Doris Humphrey moves from the spine and deep in the gut, contracting and releasing.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): False Question 1: Hip hop roots are founded in African and afro-caribbean social fabric, particularly of the Bronx in the 1970’s. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 2: Barbea Williams, the guest teacher during the world dance studio day, studied with Katherine Dunham, who is a well known African Fusion dance teacher.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True

Question 3: Josephine Baker was born in Chicago, was a cultural Anthropologist who studied African Diaspora in the lesser and greater Antilles of the Caribbean Islands. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): False Question 4: Diaspora is any group that has been dispersed outside its traditional homeland, especially involuntarily, as Africans were during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Diaspora also refers to dances that were then fused and inspired into new dance forms from various cultures and continents.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 5: A culture is the attribution of characteristics to groups of people who share a common belief system Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): False Question 6: Despite mistaken and lingering policy of racial segregation and inequality, African and European immigrants found common ground in their dance music.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 7: World Dance refers to particular culture, nation, ethnicity or religion usually performed in a group or social setting that is passed down from generation to generation. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 8: American Jazz, musical theater, tap, hip hop and even contemporary ballet have absorbed the African dance influence. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 9: Common characteristics of culture include; language, religion, dress, music, literature, pastimes and celebrations.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Question 10: Polycentrism means to have movement coming from only once center of the body and is a string characteristic of African dance. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s):

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Question 1: Jerome Robbins choreographed West Side Story. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 2: Tap dance is not considered a part of the Jazz dance genre.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): False Question 3: New York City is a hub for concert jazz dance.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 4: Agnes De mille was a chater member of the American Ballet Theater and was famous for choreographing the dream sequence in “Oklahoma!”

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 5: As the entertainment industry evolved from stage to screen, jazz dance remained a dance form specifically for the stand and in aprt of the movie industry.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): False Question 6: Jack Cole worked with many famous Hollywood women, including Marilyn Monroe, and is credited for helping her become an American Icon.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True

Question 7: Bob Fosse’s choreography displays high contrast between stillness and isolated movements, including facial expressions and the movement of the mouth.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 8: Jazz dance can be sensual and/or sexual in nature.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 9: Jazz Dance is deeply connected to the music and can express the emotion of the music, rather than the emotions of the individual. This is in contrast to Modern dance, which may detach itself from the music as Merce Cunningham did, and as art form intended to convey emotions of the individual.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): True Question 10: Jazz dance is an American art for rooted in South American culture.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): False Question 11: Commercial Jazz dance is usually performed in a proscenium theater.

Type: True or False Points Awarded: 1/1 Your Answer(s): False

Question Results Question 1: The music for the controversial ballet "The Rite of Spring" was written by Tchaikovsky.

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Question 2: Isadora Duncan often turned to the ancient Greeks to inspire her dancing.

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Question 3: Ruby Keeler was noted for never dancing on her heels. (Hint: read jazz power point!!!!)

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Question 4: Jazz dancing has now developed into a form which, like classical ballet, has strict rules and a codified vocabulary.

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Question 5: Fred Astaire preferred to film his numbers in one full front shot or "take" (no close ups or angles). He liked the film to showcase he and his partner's entire dance choreography. (watch "swing time" with Ginger Rogers)

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Question 6: Even though he was not a dancer himself, Serge Diaghilev was responsible for a revolution in dance that reflected an interest in "modern" art and music of the early 20th century.

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Question 7: Gus Giordano devoted his career to developing jazz as an independent form of concert dance.

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Question 8: In his seminal work "Revelations", Alvin Ailey turned to his Southern Baptist religious roots to create a work that has proven to have universal and timeless appeal.

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Question 9: In the first court ballets, the women were often seen partnering male dancers.

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Question 10: 1. Bob Fosse's work was strongly influenced by his experience in burlesque. Type: True or False Points Awarded: 2/2 Your Answer(s): True Correct Answer(s):

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Question 11: Gene Kelly was noted for his athleticism and healthy personality, as demonstrated in his production of "Singing in the Rain".

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Question 12: Katherine Dunham was a ballerina.

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Question 13: Creativity is used to help expand the boundaries of all aspects of life.

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Question 14: Unfortunately, the groundbreaking ideas of Ruth St. Denis had little effect on dancing in America because she failed to develop a school.

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Question 15: Busby Berkeley liked to film his dance numbers from unusual angles.

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Question 16: Tap dance is a gently welcoming dance from Hawaii.

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Question 17: The history of theatrical dancing in the West can be traced to the "first" ballet "La Sylphide".

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Question 18: The epitome of classical ballet is most often considered to be the "The Sleeping Beauty' by Marius Petipa because of the shortened classical tutus and sophisticated pointe work.

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Question 19: When George Balanchine came to the United States, his work continued in the Russian tradition of opulent production, costumes and sets.

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Question 20: Martha Graham's concept of contraction and release has influenced other styles of contemporary dancing and is still being performed today.

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Question 21: In the year 1786, just...