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Dance History

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What type of dance was very popular in the Colonial times? 
a)
The Waltz
b)
The Cha Cha
c)
The Cotillion
d)
 The Macarena
2.
Was dance popular to all social classes in the colonial times? 
a)
Yes
b)
No
3.
Were there balls in the colonial period? 
a)
Yes
b)
No
4.
What was a popular dance in the Mideval period?
a)
The Waltz
b)
Cha Cha Slide 
c)
Egg dance
d)
Apple dance
5.
What did Peasants wear to dances normally?
a)
They didn't go
b)
Normal everyday clothing 
c)
Fancy Ball Gowns
6.
True or False? In the Mideval period did they think dance protected disease?
a)
True 
b)
False
7.
Is TRF dance an Ancient or Modern dance?
a)
Ancient 
b)
Modern
8.
What is the date that the earliest discovered dances started?  
a)
4400 BC
b)
2017
c)
33 BCE
d)
3300 BC
9.
What are some of the most popular dances in the late 1800s and the mid 1900. 
a)
Tango 
b)
Mamba 
c)
Cotton eye Joe 
d)
Cha Cha Slide
10.
Was ballet invented in the 1800s-1900s?
a)
Yes
b)
No
11.
Did better technology improve dance??
a)
No
b)
Yes
12.
What is dance?
a)
What the body is doing
b)
the instrument of dance as in the body moves to show dance
c)
how someone moves in a dance 
d)
To move ones body rythmically in a pattern of steps
13.
What is Choreography?
a)
The way your body moves
b)
The sequence of steps and movements in dance
c)
The art of planning and composing a dance
d)
The forcefulness of expression used in dance
14.
What is energy?
a)
How you body moves in a rythm
b)
Moving your body to the beat
c)
The forcefulness of expression used in a dance