Dance Basics
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1. They codified many standard ballet rules still used today

2. Placing the ball of the foot on the floor without a weight change

3. The action of turning a ball-and-socket joint; circular movement around a central axis

4. This celebrated teacher founded the jazz dance world congress

5. Combination: sustained time/direct space/light weight

6. Celebrated teacher of jazz technique

7. Physics principles that govern motion - flow - and weight in time and space including: the law of gravity - balance and centrifugal force.

8. He established the first ballet school in France in the 1600s

9. A dance teacher would most likely suggest that a student practice Pilates exercises in order to

10. Intersects an upright standing body horizontally the table plane

11. The element of dance involving rhythm - phrasing - tempo - accent and duration. Time can be metered as in music or based on body rhythms such as breath - emotions - and heartbeat.

12. The sagittal plane divides the body

13. Multiple performers perform the movement in the same way at the same time

14. Defined specifically as the volume at Which musical notes are played.

15. A type of dance that began as a rebellion against steps and positions and values - Expressive and original or authentic movement. Alvin Ailey and Martha Graham

16. The action of bending a joint or the action of decreasing the angle between two levers

17. Striking the floor with an immediate release; can be done with the heel or the ball of the foot

18. Combination: sudden time/direct space/light weight

19. An element of dance that refers to the immediate spherical space surrounding the body in all directions. Use of space includes shape - direction - pathway - range of movement and level of movment(Low - middle - high).

20. Movement executed with one body part or a small part of the body. Examples are rooling the head - shruggung the shoulders and rotating the pelvis.

21. Multiple performers perform a movement in succession

22. A type of dance that concentrates of footwork and rhythm. This type of dance grew out of American popular dancing - with significant roots in African American - Irish and english clogging traditions.

23. Tap dancers that focus on design and dance aspect of tapping such as fred astaire - gene kelly and ann miller

24. Basic movements or short sequences are manipulated to create new but related movements

25. Which of the following two muscles are used for flexion in dance?

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