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DANCE 101 Final From the following list, what transition(s) do the mythology of America’s “frontier brinkmanship” negotiate? Select all that apply. Correct! From wilderness to civilizat... ion. Correct! From frontier to community. Correct! From fledgling nation to world power. From exclusiveness to inclusiveness. Question 2 2 / 2 pts According to Bill T. Jones, what is "black dance"? Part of the continuum of African and African American traditions. Deals with historical, social, political condition of blacks in this culture. A celebration of the black woman's body. Correct! Anything it wants to be. Question 3 2 / 2 pts According to Sally Banes, break-dance shares similarities with many cultural forms. Match the descriptions below to the forms she believes break dance shares similarities. Correct! Capoeira Correct! Caribbean music Correct! Reggae Correct! African/Afro-American dance traditions Question 4 2 / 2 pts According to Knapp, the division between younger and older audiences in the 1960s was distinguished by four areas of contention. Which answers below are part of those areas? Choose all that apply. Correct! Music Correct! Politics Life magazine Correct! Appearance Question 5 2 / 2 pts What was the majority of Americans’ attitudes towards modern artists and artworks during the Cold War? The great majority of Americans held new artistic movements as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US. Correct! The great majority of Americans disliked or even despised modern art. The great majority of Americans were embarrassed by the hysterical denunciations of anything avant-garde. All of the above. Question 6 2 / 2 pts What did NOT interest Eleo Pomare in choreographing dance in the 60s? To instigate. To be forecasters of things to come. To confront audience with the harsh realities of the time. Correct! To show audiences the beauty of the black dancer. Question 7 2 / 2 pts Match the break-dance sequence to its description: Correct! Entry Correct! Footwork Correct! Freeze Correct! Exit Question 8 2 / 2 pts Skip to question text. According to the resources, how is “multiculturalism” defined? 1. Used the notion of "identity" to establish their collective visibility. 2. Reclaimed the term African-American (first used in the 1890s) because it described a group with its own continuous cultural history, its own rituals and its own diaspora. 3. A society that was the complicated sum of many distinct parts. 4. Performance artists made work that targeted the mainstream's ignorance of the ethnic cultures within its midst. 1., 2., 3., and 4. 2., and 4. Correct! 3. 4. Question 9 2 / 2 pts Skip to question text. Which of the following is part of the "ironies"of the musical Oklahoma! in its mythologizing? 1. Oklahoma means "Red People" in Choctaw. 2. The author, Lynn Riggs, was himself part Cherokee. 3. The original play was set in Oklahoma territory. 4. Statehood meant that Native Americans would become land owners. 1., 2. and 3. Correct! 1., 2., and 4. 1., 3., and 4. 1., 2., 3., and 4. Question 10 2 / 2 pts According to McMains, Dancing with the Stars models a way for Latinos to keep part of their culture but become more American by toning down overt sexuality and African movement influences. This approach exemplifies what American theme? Correct! Assimilation Anti-assimilation Personal transformation Overcoming adversity Question 11 2 / 2 pts Hair was a popular, “rock musical” Broadway hits in the 1960s. Which of the following statements are NOT true about Hair? Acknowldged emergent music forms and iconcoclastic manner of appearances. Grounded in documentary-like approach to life as it is actually lived. Steeped in emergent political issues and life-styles of younger generation. Correct! Rendered the emergent life-style comical and unthreatening. This is true of Bye-Bye Birdie, another rock musical of the 1960s. (Knapp, Countermythology, p. 2) Question 12 2 / 2 pts What dance form, or technique, in Common Ground was used to bring abled bodies and disabled bodies together? Correct! Contact improvisation Contact improv Question 13 2 / 2 pts Match the dance, music and cultural form(s) to the musical numbers in which they are found. Each answer will be used only once. Correct! The Farmer and the Cowman Correct! (Everything's Up to Date in) Kansas City Correct! Dance at the Gym Correct! America Correct! Hair These different dances are discussed in the Study Guide questions 4.9.5, 4.8.7, 4.3.13, 4.3.10, 4.4.9. Question 14 2 / 2 pts What did Allan Kaprow view as the significant preoccupation of art? Its failure to become an "-ism" was its success. To present dance as fundamentally about the human body and its movements. Collaboration between artists and dancers and the way they altered each others notions of the body in space. Correct! To become dazzled by the space and objects of everyday life. Question 15 0.67 / 2 pts The account given in Porgy (and Porgy and Bess) seemed unrealistic to those who knew what life for urban blacks was like because: Select all that apply. You Answered Charleston was similar to the Harlem Renaissance that fenced off and explored the American black experience as a separate domain. Correct! Charleston had an assimilationist aspect to race relations. Correct! Charleston was integrated to a significant extent. Correct! Charleston had many blacks among the professional class. You Answered in Charleston, mobility between segregated blacks and dominant whites was not an option. Question 16 2 / 2 pts The 'circle' in hip hop dance embodies all the African aesthetics below except one. Which one? Creation through competition and improvisation Movement is used like a language in order to communicate. Hierarchy is erased when there is no one at the 'front'. Correct! A living continuum is preserved through directly repeating the movements of the teacher. Question 17 2 / 2 pts Why is dancing the mambo professionally on stage important? Correct! Professionalization is significant in helping preserve the mambo. Culture is preserved when dancers yell “Azucar!” Professional dancers each represent a different musical line. None of the above. From study guide question 6.6.4, Torres believed that professionalization assured higher quality of the dancing and quality ensured people will see it. Question 18 2 / 2 pts What element of a Ruth St. Denis photo does Peggy Choy name as indicating its inauthenticity? Correct! Open mouth Bent elbows Closeness to the ground Crossed eyes Question 19 2 / 2 pts Match the choreographer on left to their response to the question below: “What does it mean to be an Asian/Asian American choreographer?” Correct! Kimoto Correct! Wong Correct! Lee Question 20 2 / 2 pts According to McMains, when Europeans and North Americans appropriated and refined dances from Latin American: a. improvisation was minimized, b. rhythms were made more complicated, c. and vertical posture was emphasized. True Correct! False Question 21 1 / 1 pts Skip to question text. What is the name of the musical number/song and name of the musical for Video #1?Click to view Correct! The Farmer and the Cowman in Oklahoma! Question 22 2 / 2 pts In video #1, how does "Social dance serve as an obvious metaphor"? Please keep your answer short, no longer than one sentence. You Answered Square or line dances serve as metaphor for social order. Reconciliation as metaphor between Farmers and Ranchers. Question 23 1 / 1 pts Skip to question text. Video #2 Technique: What is the name of this hip-hop style? Click to view Please do not use punctuation or special characters. Correct! Krump Krumping Question 24 1 / 1 pts True or False: "Breaking isn't just an urgent response to pulsating music. It is also a ritual combat that transmutes aggression into art." Correct! True False This is a quote from Sally Banes, in "Ch. 12 Breaking is Hard to Do," pg. 123. Also illustrated through the video of Krump. Question 25 1 / 1 pts Skip to question text. List the title of the dance for Video #3. Click to view Please do NOT use any special characters or punctuation. Correct! Outside In Outside/In outside-in Question 26 1 / 1 pts (1 points): List the name of the choreographer for Video #3. Please do NOT use any special characters or punctuation. Correct! Marks Victoria Marks Question 27 1 / 1 pts Skip to question text. Video #4: What is the name of this Roland Petit modern ballet? Click to view Please do not use punctuation or special characters. Correct! This is in 5.6 "Making White Nights" video at question 5.6.5. Le jeune homme et la mort Question 28 2 / 2 pts Briefly explain why this dance was forbidden in Soviet Russia. Please keep your answer short, no longer than one sentence. Your Answer: At that time, Soviet Russia emphasized on everything should be social and everything should be in group. Therefore, the individual expression of modern art was not recognized as valuable and forbidden by Soviet Russia due to the political issue. In Soviet Russia everything had to be social and in a group and expression of the individual imagination found in modern art was not valuable. Baryshnikov defected because he wanted to dance Petit's ballet. [Show More]

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