Dance Styles and Techniques Quiz

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Dance Styles and Techniques Quiz

Test your knowledge of various dance styles, techniques, and their origins with this engaging quiz! From ballet to hip hop, you'll explore the fundamentals and history of dance while expanding your understanding of this art form.

17 diverse questions
Multiple choice, text, and checkbox formats
Ideal for dance enthusiasts and students

17 Questions4 MinutesCreated by DancingFlame582

The relationship of the skeleton to the line of gravity

Alignment

Energy

Posture

Balance

Which famous jazz choreographer combines a burlesque style of movement with an eccentric vocabulary of isolations, angled limbs, gloves and top hats?

Check box the 8 basic body positions of ballet

A syncopated weight shift to the ball of the feet

Shuffle

Punch

Ball Change

Cha Cha

List the FIVE elements of dance?

What does plié mean?

To jump

To break at the knees

To melt

To bend

Which of the following is an example of an isolation?

High Knees

Head Roll

Sit Up

Splits

George Balanchine founded which famous ballet company?

New York City Ballet

Joffrey ballet

Pennsylvania Ballet

Ballet first originated in the court of who?

Oprah

King Louis the XIV

King Louis the VI

Prince Charles

What does the "B" stand for in B-boy, a style of Hip Hop?

What style of hip hop combines funk, martial arts, and gymnastics?

B-Boy

Hip Hop Don't Stop

Tutting

Breakdancing

Leonard Reed is known for this tap dance routine

The Shim Sham

The Time Step

The Buffalo

The Suzie Q

What are the four components of Hip Hop?

Does the heel touch the floor in a flap?

What style of tap is defined as ~where tap dancing shoes create their own percussion on the floor. The shoes themselves are instruments

Rhythm

Broadway

Classical

Modern

Who is considered the mother of modern dance

Which one of the names listed is NOT a pioneer of modern dance in the United States?

Twyla Tharp

Isadora Duncan

Loie Fuller

Ruth St. Denis

Dance Styles and Techniques Quiz

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