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| Contemporary, blues, swing |
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| Influence of African slave trade on American Culture |
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| Layering of Rhythm and sound |
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| Layers of music coming together |
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| Cyclical form of dance and music allowing for entrances and exits |
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| Rhythmic Complexity, Polyrythms, Crossrythms |
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| Several Layers of rhythms in African Dance |
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| Sound Elements of African dance |
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| Hocket, Call and Response, Dense Textures, Open Ended forms, Rhythmic Complexity (poly/crossryhtms) |
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| Community Participation Values in African dance |
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| Dancing serves group. Don't hide what your good at. If not good, don't dance. |
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| Elements of Improvisation |
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| Main movements, don't change |
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| Elaboration (Improvisation) |
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Addition to main movements (core)
Controlled by drums |
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| Core Instruments in African dance |
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| Central Values of AFrican dance |
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| Community Participation and Improvisation |
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| Types of Drums in African Dance |
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| Djembe, Djun Djun, "Talking" |
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| "Hippie Drum", Holds 3 spirits, Lead drum, "Rat-a-tat" |
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| Bass drum, Bell normally attached, normally 1 or 3 playing |
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| Strings attaced to this drum to change pitch, communication across long distances |
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| African Tribe. Believe in transcending physical llife to join divine spirit, pantheon of Gods and Goddesses (changed to fit Christian Influence). |
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| Yoruba dance. Festival of ancestors, dance to converse with spirits. Without people, Gods would not exist. Move in ways that resemble gods |
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| Yoruba Water Goddess, resembles Virgin Mary |
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| Masks that embody animals. Thrash heads with long hair during dance. |
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| Masks resembling combination of animals. Abstract, Godly. |
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| Wide/Tall Masks. Thrash heads with long hair during dance. Tribe scars skulls with X to be identified in next life. |
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| Polyrhytm, Polycentrism, Curvilinear, Dimensionality, Epic Memory, Holistic, Repetition |
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| Polyrhythm (aesthetic sense) |
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| Several layers of music a |
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| Time it takes to do motion, Several layers of time (cyclical), Different parts in different rhythms |
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| Body movement is circular |
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| Extra-sensory essence/depth, effect of all layers on whole experience |
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| No separation of terms for drummer,dancer, music. Need all parts to have the whole. |
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| Emphasizes form, allows feelings to grow. |
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| Removes individual (part of whole), turns you into "vessel" |
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| African Dance. Masks can dance by themselves. Winiama, Nuna, and Bwa. All tribes use fuzzy costumes. |
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| Jump Jim Crow/ Black face minstrelsy |
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| Reinforced Black sterotypes |
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| First Black black faced minstrels |
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| Competitive slave interpretation of white dance. A form of cultural exchange |
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| White interpretation of Lindy Hop. People payed for classes, making it standard form vs. its freestyle origins. |
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| African American dance similar to jazz and swing. The first black dance club did this dance. |
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| Music genre developed for children who enjoyed jazz and swing. |
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| Dance move in Lindy Hop when partners separate and do their own dance moves. |
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| Choreographer. Focused on isolation of body parts. Used agya as inspiration. Danced in "stormy weather." |
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| Katherine Dunham danced in this movie |
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| African dance similar to capoeira that was Katherine Dunham's inspiration. |
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| Based on slow dance. Romantic/hot. Used jazz and African movements. Choreographed by Katherine Dunham |
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| Made "strange fruit" and "hard time blues" |
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| Choreographer. Provocative, passionate, slow, strong, pronounced. Made "Mourner's Bench." |
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| Choreographer. Home-grown dance, urban-kid dance, childish voice, real, political, "rainbow round my shoulders" |
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| Afro-Brazilian religion that kept deities alive by dance practices that looked like catholicism. Evolved from Yoruba. |
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| What Candomble represents |
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| It represents the ecstatic forces of the universe and that deities desire dance expression |
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| Jamaican music created because they were banned from singing in African language |
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| Fear of African drums in America |
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| They feared drums because of power, ocnspiracy, and threat evoked by it. |
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| Circular shuffle step dance. Beat stick, foot stomp, clapping, shouts |
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| Afro-Brazilian festival. Bold multicultural expression. Began as white and no drums, then incorporated samba. |
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| Music/dance in Carnival. Gave identity to Afro-Brazilians |
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| DJ (music), MC (rapper), Grafitti, B-boy (dancing) |
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| First DJ to use two turntables. |
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| Hip hop dance meant to humiliate opponent |
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| locking of joints in hip hop |
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| sudden muscle contraction in hip hop |
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| Classical, Romantic, Modern |
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| Founder of Classical Dance. Sun King. |
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| Dance form emphasized calves. Was patterned, spaced out, decorative. Had international written manuals in French. |
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| Dance meant as an escape from drudgery of industrialism |
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| 2 sides of Romantic Ballet |
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| Castle/Court and Forest/Creatures |
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| Dress that showed calves, so one could see footwork |
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| Romantic Ballet in which man loves fairy, is tricked by witch and kills the fairy with cloth. Evil wins. |
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| Romantic Ballet with the Willis. Prince loves peasant who kills herself, turns into willi, then saves him. Good wins |
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| Created 50+ Romantic Ballets with Imperial Ballet (Russia), first to work with composers to reflect emotion in music. Long ballets |
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| Angry dead women who dance men to death. |
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| Ballet era when tutus got shorter. Had Swan Lake. |
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| Choreographer with her own dance company in classic ballet era. Worked with Imperial Russian Ballet and Ballet Russes. |
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| Synchronized group of ballet dancers |
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| Synchronized group of ballet dancers |
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| Classical Ballet, Anna Pavlova was the first star. |
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| Modern Dance company promoted by Sergei Diaghilev. "Experimental" Ballet. |
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| One of the first good male dancers. Ballets Russes. Homosexual. In Afternoon of the Fawn and Rite of Spring. |
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| Ballets Russes dance with Vaslov Nijinsky with humping of scarf. |
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| Ballets Russes dance with Vaslov Nijinsky about Pagan Fertility rituals |
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| Moved Ballet into 20th century (modern), Condensed ballets into 1 acts, used virtuosity as a means to expression. Produced firebird and Petrushka. |
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| Mikhail Fokine's phoenix take on Swan Lake |
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| Michail Fokine's dance about a puppet that dies. |
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| Father of American Ballet. Focused on geometric, spare lines and athleticism. Co-founded NYC ballet. Made 426 ballets, including Apollo and Four Temperaments |
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| Balanchine ballet about sun god |
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| Theme based ballet by Balanchine |
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| Dance for two in ballet (duet) |
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| Mass of dancers that supports main action (chorus) |
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| Use of point shoes in ballet |
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| Choreographer, "Dance is an art," Liberation against society, 1st modern dance language, danced to classical music with tunics, freeflowing fabric, long scarves, dramatic hats. |
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| Choreographer. Exotic, eastern inspiration. Bold, celebrated other cultures. |
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| Choreographer that incorporated other outside forms. Supplied dancers for films. |
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| Company by Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis. Emphasized "find your own voice." When they split up, Shawn made own company that stressed masculinity |
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| Choreographer. Stern and driven. "___ contraction" of back and shoulders. Alienation of artist to the mass taste. Freudiean psych, darker themes. Tight, controlled technique. First trademark dancing. |
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| Choreographer. Cance didn't have to follow music, just occupied same time and space. Methods of chance, universe decides. Into computer era which influenced dance. |
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| Choreographer. "We're not here to entertain you..." |
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| Dance era that rebelled against status quo. |
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| Balinese dancing with divine inspiration which leads to trance |
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| Stylistic elements of Balinese dance |
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| Significance of Harmony, balance, and movement of eyes. |
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| Balinese sword dance. Pretend to be hurt, but trance is layer of protection. |
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| Young Girls dancing, become nymphs |
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| Monkey Chant. Healing ritual, rhythmic chanting of 100 people. |
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| Musical Ensemble in Balinese Dance. Drum marks time. |
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| Hand positions in Balinese Dance |
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| Basic Body stance of Balinese Dance |
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| Controversial Dancers from Istanbul. Supposed to only dance as tourist attraction, not religion. Not widely accepted as Muslim. Founded by Rumi. |
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| Muslim that started Whirling Dervishes, inspired by repetition of a blacksmith |
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