DAC REVIEW

Define Modern Dance

• The culture, traditions, and ideals of those of European decent 

• codified and has various techniques associated with specific people

• of the present time, current

• randomness as a way to free imagination from its own clichés

Organize these options into contemporary dance that happens in either concert dance or commercial dance settings

Groups:

(a) COMMERCIAL

,

(b) CONCERT

• World of Dance

• Camille A. Brown & Dancers

• So You Think You Can Dance

• Dancing Wheels

• ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATRE

• Dance Moms

True or False: Post-Modern dance focused on intellectual process rather than the product of a performance 

• TRUE

• FALSE

What form of dance is a solo dance performed by women and initiated in the Hindu temples and eventually flourished in South India

• Lamban

• Bharatanatyam

• Khmer

What is a set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or genre of dance?

• art

• choreographer

• aesthetic

• artist

True or False: Culture is symbolic communication. Some of its symbols include a group's skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and motives

• TRUE

• FALSE

What does codification mean? 

• master of ceremony 

• Dance genres and practices that exist in Africa and the African diaspora and have their sources in concepts or practices from Africa

• Embraces difference & tension rather than resolving it

• Common movements set in a particular style that often have specific names and expectations associated with it.

________ is the composition and arrangement of the sequence of steps and movements in a dance