Dance History Vocabulary- Chapter 3

A round dance often depicting angels in heaven.

Carole

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Etiquette is little signs, supplemented is replaced, integral is important, the volta was considered scandalous because when the women were lifted up their ankles and sometimes calves would appear, and only the pure of heart could dance baldassare castiglione.

A gay, vigorous dance, that included kicks, leaps, and jumps, but there were no glides.

Galliard

A popular character, a mischievous, sly magician that danced and mimed his role.

Harlequin

A masked or pantomimic dancer wearing fancy costumes and portraying sword or stock characters, celebrating religious holidays.

Mummer

A ceremonial dance performed that translates to peacock.

Pavon

A supposed dance cure for a spider bite. The tarantella was the most famous dance associated with dance mania.

Tarantella

One of the most popular, yet controversial dances, because it was considered scandalous.

Volta

A festivities including eating, drinking, and dancing interludes, either during or after the meal.

Banquet

A popular circle dance often containing regional names performed by young and old.

Branle

A code followed by knights to display manners and etiquette.

Chivalry

A group of refined, polished dances with embodied rules of courtesy, usually everyone would watchover each other to ensure that they are doing there part correctly.

Court Danse

Evolved into poetry competitions and intense discussions on questions about love, passion, and marriage.

Courts of Love

Nonstop dancing, uncontrollable, mass hysteria resulting from wars, plagues, and natural disasters.

Dance Mania

Dances that had the central figure of death to honor past lives of ancestors (Dance of the dead).

Danse Macabre

A serpentine dance done mostly outdoors, winding through villages, in and out of homes.

Farandole

Revel, burlesque in the church.

Feast of Fools

Petty rulers emerged as nobles that providing protection for the peasants who worked their for them or served as soldiers in their army.

Feudalism

It began in Italy and is a french term, meaning "rebirth".

Renaissance

A mens dance, that contains the figures of the lock and the rose.

Sword Dance

Keep time with the music Remember the steps in sequence Have a sense of space-the floor pattern and dimension of movements within it sway (translated to "uplifting of the body") Demonstrate body coordination, direction, and shading (dynamic movement) of movement Move gracefully

What are the 6 prerequisites of a renaissance dancer?

Men wore belted tunics as well as stockings, while women wore a high-necked long-sleeved under a loose or fitted tunic-length dress, sometimes people also wore masks or gloves as well.

What did men and women wear?

The Pavon (4/4 time) and the Galliard (triple time) comprised two-part suites.

What were the dances of the two part suite?