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Dance Grade 6

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 37mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What technique Martha Graham implemented in her dance style?

(a)  

2.

Name 2 famous dance pieces Martha Graham choreographed?

(a)  

3.

Which of the following the Funk dance styles?

a)

Tutting, Popping, Robot

b)

Jazz, Modern,Salsa

c)

Tango, Robot, Bopping

d)

Waving, Disco, Puppet

4.

Name the style of dance that have ethnic, traditional elements?

a)

Folk Dance

b)

Tap Dance

c)

Hip Hop

d)

Contemporaray

5.

Draw a formation of 7 Dancers on stage.

6.

A locomotor movement is defined as a movement that?

a)

moves you on the floor

b)

keeps you in one spot

c)

moves you from one place to another

d)

takes you into the air

7.

Which of the following would be an example of non-locomotor movements?

a)

bend, twist, wiggle

b)

slide, skip, vibrate

c)

turn, leap, curve

d)

spin, roll, rise

8.

Which of the following movement best describes a contraction?

a)

tossing the ball

b)

punch in the stomach

c)

washing the hair

d)

brushing the teeth

9.

What is Contemporary Dance?

a)

A mixture of dance styles also called 'Modern' dance.

b)

An adaptation of urban dance styles.

c)

Any dance performed after the 21st century.

10.

What is creating a routine is called?

a)

Choreographing

b)

Performing

11.

Whose technique was based on contraction and release, and on breath and oppositional force?

a)

Twyla Tharp

b)

Martha Graham

c)

Ruth St Denis

d)

Loie Fuller

12.

Which dancer/choreographer published The Art of Making Dances in 1950?

a)

Ruth St Denis

b)

Twyla Tharp

c)

Trisha Brown

d)

Doris Humphrey

13.

Which choreographer's dances were often inspired by ancient Greek Art?

a)

Isadora Duncan

b)

Loie Fuller

c)

Ruth St Denis

d)

Ted Shawn

14.
What year was Martha Graham born
a)
1794
b)
1894
c)
1694
d)
1994
15.
What style of dance Modern dance rebel against?
a)
Jazz
b)
Hip Hop
c)
Lyrical
d)
Ballet
16.
What year did Martha Graham die?
a)
1991
b)
2001
c)
1981
d)
1971
17.
Who was known as the "mother of modern dance"
a)
Ruth St. Denis
b)
Isadora Duncan
c)
Katherine Dunham
d)
Martha Graham
18.
Lyrical is a mixture of what two styles of dance
a)
Ballet and Hip Hop
b)
Modern and Ballet
c)
Modern and Jazz
d)
Jazz and Hip Hop
19.

What is the dance style?

a)

Tap

b)

Jazz

c)

Ballet

d)

Tribal Funk

20.

What is the dance style?

a)

Modern

b)

Tap

c)

Jazz

d)

Line

21.

What is the definition of dance?

a)

to move one's feet or body rhythmically

b)

to leap or skip with joy or excitement

c)

to move nimbly or quickly

d)

All of these

22.

What style dance produces sound by using the feet?

This style uses a shoe with metal on the bottom.

a)

Tap

b)

Jazz

c)

Ballet

d)

Modern

23.

A type of dance that began as a rebellion against ballet steps and positions. No rules or boundaries, avante-garde, pedestrian movements that allow dancers to express themselves with a variety of themes.

a)

ballet

b)

lyrical

c)

modern

d)

hip hop

24.

What style of Dance is celebrated in Asian countries which symbolizes the animal Lion.

a)

Lion Dance

b)

Tiger

c)

Line Dance

d)

Jazz Dance