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

2. This legendary tap dance partner of charles hone coles also worked as a choreographer for artists with the motown record label

3. Circle of the leg - tracing a half circle upon the ground using the toes

4. When a movment phrase or section progresses to the next.

5. A lean body with enhanced flexibility due to a lack of muscular strength

6. The degree of ease or continuousness of a movement from initiation to completion

7. He was the first African american dancer to play to white audiences

8. Modern jazz style that emphasizes agility in all areas

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

10. Celebrated teacher of jazz technique

11. He was a legendary avant garde choreographer

12. 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).

13. This is a kind of snap. the head is tossed or turned from a frontward orientation to the side.

14. Combination: sudden time/indirect space/strong weight

15. Leaving the ground and landing on the same foot

16. Which of the following is typically not a goal of ideokinesis

17. He was a celebrated choreographer and the first male dance for the graham company

18. To strike - striking the floor with the foot in a brushing movement

19. With which of the following styles of modern dance is Isadora Duncan associated?

20. Observers would be unlikely to see contractions - releases - and isolations in which of the following dance forms?

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

22. Combination: sustained time/indirect space/lightweight

23. He was the choreographer for Ballets Russes

24. These include pirouette and fouette turns - in which the dancer remains in one place on the floor

25. 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.