Quiz-Street Dance

What element of Street Dance involves the body doing elaborate spins, flips and contortions?

• Agility and coordination

• Bounce or recoil

• Tightening if the body

• Fun

Answer explanation

Agility and coordination Because the body dances a complex array of interlocking rhythms, percussive accents of isolated body-parts pop out in unexpected phrasing and that break dancers perform elaborate spins, balances, flips, contortions and freezes” (DeFrantz, 2004. p.74) , it must be able to move quickly and smoothly from one position to the other with ease.

What element of Street Dance involves being excited and enjoyable?

• Fun

• Bounce or recoil

• Tightening if the body

• Agility and coordination

Answer explanation

Fun – hip-hop dance is not only exciting but enjoyable as well. According to DeFrantz (2004), “Hip-hop dance is fun. Fun is an essential element of hip-hop, which offers its dancers a mechanism to offer kinetic musicality with a bravado that is easily consumed by an immobile audience (p. 74).”

Street Dance is influenced with what cultural aspect(s)?

• Hip-hop

• Afro-American culture

• ballet

• social dancing

Answer explanation

street dance is a cultural variation of hip-hop dance in the United States and is generally a form of entertainment where technical and teachable dance aspects replaced the cultural symbolism and message of the true essence of African-American hip-hop dance (Dimalanta, 2006).

What skills or ability is/ are needed to do Break Dance?

• All are needed

• Acrobatic skills

• Gymnastic Skills

• Strength

Manuel would like to perform head spin during their street dance competition, what attire you would suggest to him in order to execute properly and safety the head spin?

• rubber mat

• cap

• long sleeves

• a stocking capor handkerchief

Answer explanation

The dancer spins on his head, often while wearing a stocking capor handkerchief. When the dancer uses his hands to aid in speeding up the spin, it is called ‘tapping.’ A dancer may tap for a few rotations and then ‘glide’ for as many as 15 rotations. Kid Freeze is the b-boy who claims to have invented the head spin.