DAN224
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- Soguni-Cun
- when the fields are prepared, male dance, only men watch, virgins wear a double antelope mask (symbol of fertility), sweat into the earth to make it fertile, females plant seeds after the ceremony
- Polyrhythm
- Many Sequence of beats African & island music and dance
- Big Drum
-
-Western Tribe - 6-10 men hit drum with mallets - no women playing drums ever
heartbeat of mother earth - Fire dance
- men only built and set
- Jingle Dress Dance
- dress with many bells and women only dance around
- Apollo
- mythological god of form and order; choreography
- Dithyramb
- celebration to Dionysus; competition in song and dance
- Adagio
- low to the ground (basses);
- Clapsticks
- instrument of the aborigines
- Syncopation
- accents of the rhythm fall between the beats or in unexpected places
- Basses
- slow tempo, adagio, “minivetteâ€
- Didjeridu
- wind instrument with two tones, high and low
- Theatron
- “place to seeâ€; outdoor amphitheaters
- Tarantella
- Italian folk dance; wont die when you dance, poisonous spiders, fast aerobic duet between male/female, ballet program today
- Orchestra/orchesis
- played at theatron
- Tempo
- speed or rate of the beats
- Hoop dance
- dance in hoops, could be multiple hoops, men only
- Rhythm
- arrangements (pattern) of accents on top of the beats
- Dionysus
- myth god of passion and vitality; myth god of dance
- Folk dance
- ethnic dance that has lost its original meaning, only the form is passed along
- Dansomania
- some believed dancing prevented the plague, huge groups of hysterical people danced in the streets trying to avoid the plague
- Totan Tanz
- dance of death; german, peasants dance after dark of aristocrats grave, sometimes dig up body for revenge
- Horizontal/figure dancing
- floor pattern, geometric shapes
- Ethnic dance
- dance forms that develop from a cultural heritage and reflect the social structure and life of that particular population
- smoke dance
- put out fire after fire dance
- Pantomime
- all act out
- traveling mintrels
- 1st dance masters to teach aristocratic society art songs and dance
- chilvary
- affected aristocratic life
- Catherine de Medici
- Queen of France from Italy; produced first real ballet
- ballare
- the french term for ballet; Italian verb "to dance"
- 1581
- the year the first real ballet was produced, in France for the royal wedding
- Ballet Comique de la Reine
- the first royal wedding ballet produced
- tonnelet
- male performance skirt
- The Masque of Blackness
- from england
- King Louis XIV
- "the Dancing King"
- Ballet de la Nuit
- "ballet of the Night"; reproduction of the Masque of Blackness
- Jean Baptist Lully
- King Luis's best friend - ballet master, director of Royal Academy of Dance
- 1681
- Year Lully produced and coreographed "Le Triomphe de L'Amour", "The Victor of Love"
- Le Triumphe de L'Amour
- produced and coreographed by Lully; The Victory of Love; first professional women ballet dancers
- inuit
- culture based on fishing and whaling and hunting; mostly men danced together; women danced separately
- Drum-Dance-Song
- tell of the hunt
- bull roarer
- secret, sacred instrument used and heard by men - sacred ceremonies