Lindy Hop and World Dance Pg
DNCE131: Exam 1 Study Guide
FALL 2013: Professor Flickinger
1. Copeland and Cohen. “What is Dance?” pg 1
-Understand the three basic art theories being discussed
-Aristotle is responsible for what part of Western Storytelling/Narrative
-Focus on the arguments of Martin, Levinson, Goodman, & Sparshott
2. Sklar. “Five Premises for a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Dance” pg 30
-Understand the five premises and their importance to discussing dance cross culturally
-Be able to define Empathic Kinesthetic Perception
3. Dils and Albright. “Looking at World Dance” Pg 92
-Understand the three basic tenants/questions of the article
4. Kealiinohomoku. “An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance” Pg 533
-Know that it is a gross error to think of groups of people or their dances as being “monolithic wholes” & understand what that means (pg 534)
-Know her Definition of Dance: “Dance is a transient mode of expression, performed in a given form and style by the human body moving in space. Dance occurs through purposefully selected and controlled rhythmic movements; the resulting phenomenon is recognized as dance both by the performer and the observing members of a given group.” (pg 540-41)
5. Doolittle and Elton. “Medicine of the Brave: a Look at the Changing Role of Dance in Native Culture from the Buffalo Days to the Modern Powwow” Pg 114
-Know where dance comes from for the Native Americans and what its original primary use was (page st 114, 1 paragraph).
! Grass Dance
-Pan-Indianism (what does this mean)
-Switch from sacred to secular
! Sun Dance
-Canadian Indian Act of 1885 did what?
-How many days total/dance? What is the significance of those numbers?
-What did the dancers have done to them and what was the result during the dance?
-Know what the Dance/flesh represents
! Ghost Dance
-Wovoka- 1886 – vision –reviving what & how would it happen
-What was the Code and how was it different from how it was perceived
-Know about
FALL 2013: Professor Flickinger
1. Copeland and Cohen. “What is Dance?” pg 1
-Understand the three basic art theories being discussed
-Aristotle is responsible for what part of Western Storytelling/Narrative
-Focus on the arguments of Martin, Levinson, Goodman, & Sparshott
2. Sklar. “Five Premises for a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Dance” pg 30
-Understand the five premises and their importance to discussing dance cross culturally
-Be able to define Empathic Kinesthetic Perception
3. Dils and Albright. “Looking at World Dance” Pg 92
-Understand the three basic tenants/questions of the article
4. Kealiinohomoku. “An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance” Pg 533
-Know that it is a gross error to think of groups of people or their dances as being “monolithic wholes” & understand what that means (pg 534)
-Know her Definition of Dance: “Dance is a transient mode of expression, performed in a given form and style by the human body moving in space. Dance occurs through purposefully selected and controlled rhythmic movements; the resulting phenomenon is recognized as dance both by the performer and the observing members of a given group.” (pg 540-41)
5. Doolittle and Elton. “Medicine of the Brave: a Look at the Changing Role of Dance in Native Culture from the Buffalo Days to the Modern Powwow” Pg 114
-Know where dance comes from for the Native Americans and what its original primary use was (page st 114, 1 paragraph).
! Grass Dance
-Pan-Indianism (what does this mean)
-Switch from sacred to secular
! Sun Dance
-Canadian Indian Act of 1885 did what?
-How many days total/dance? What is the significance of those numbers?
-What did the dancers have done to them and what was the result during the dance?
-Know what the Dance/flesh represents
! Ghost Dance
-Wovoka- 1886 – vision –reviving what & how would it happen
-What was the Code and how was it different from how it was perceived
-Know about