Experiencing Dance - Ch 7

Who was the founder of a cultural dance company for which she had dancers trained in classical forms?

Amalia Hernandez; Ballet Folklorico de Mexico de Amalia Hernandez

Cave drawings give us the sense that dance was an essential part of everyday life. What reasons were there to dance?

Dances for planting and harvests, for rites of passage, and for needed weather changes

True/False: Tapestries that tell us about dance were prominent in the 1990s.

False

True/False: The Greeks in ancient times performed their dances in their homes.

False

True/False: There was a time when humans didn't dance.

False

True/False: Vernacular dance has no connection to the music of the day.

False

What are some of the ways in which films use dance?

It might set the time frame, cement relationships in the story line, or used for the sheer entertainment factor

Who was Arthur Murray's dance partner?

Kathryn Murray, his wife

In many cultures dance is a way to celebrate. How is it documented?

Movements, meanings, and techniques are handed down from one generation to the next

How do we know that ancient nations such as Egypt had dance as part of their culture?

Much of their dancing was documented by the works of sculptors and pottery designers

What dance critic, historian, and lecturer who has edited hundreds of books on dance, dancers, choreographers, dance criticism, and dance history edited an all-encompassing work in the six-volume International Encyclopedia of Dance: A Project of Dance Perspectives?

Selma Jeanne Cohen

True/False: Dance occurred in ancient times.

True

True/False: For social entertainment, Native Americans integrated dance and drumming into the very fabric of their lives.

True

True/False: The black bottom dance of the Roaring Twenties was considered shocking.

True