2026 Spring dance final

Which modern forerunner used color, fabric, movement, sound, and light to create innovative dances as a complete theatrical experience?

Lois Fuller

Who established a company of all male dancers

Ted Shawn

Which choreographer married Ruth St Dennis and together they established the Denishawn school of Dance

Ted Shawn

Which forerunner used natural body movements to express emotion, and spontaneously interpret the music

Isadora Duncan

Which forerunner became known as the first Lady of American modern dance

Isadora Duncan

To establish a summer Institute for studying modern dance, called Jacob’s pillow

Ted Shawn

Which choreographer trained six students that became known as the “isadorables”

Isadora Duncan

What was the name of the piece Ruth st Denis choreographed with four dancers using a large silk cloth as a prop

Soaring

Whose technique was based on contract and release and on breath and oppositional force

Martha Graham

Which dancer trained with Nary Wigman in Germany

Hanya Holm

Who choreographed Appalachian Springs in 1944

Martha Graham

Who choreographed The Shakers in 1930

Doris Humphrey

Whose technique was a blend of African, European, Afro-Caribbean, and American dance

Katherine Dunham

Which dancer/choreographer published The Art of making dances in 1950

Doris Humphrey

Which choreographer created a solo, called Cry, for Judith Jamison to represent the struggles of African American women

Alvin Ailey

Which choreographer viewed himself as a “dance maker” not a choreographer

Erick Hawkins

Which choreographer created the concept of choreographing by chance

Merce Cunningham

Which American choreographer was also a composer and a design designer, his abstract dances combine movement with various technical affects, making him known as a pioneer of multimedia

Alain nikolais

This group of diversely train dancers were avant garde experimentalist who rejected the combines of modern dance, practice and theory inventing unorthodox works

Judson dance theater

Which choreographer went on to develop contact improvisation as a dance medium? his exploration of games improvisation in gravity expanded dance invention for large groups of trained and untrained dancers

Steve Paxton

Who was the composer that collaborated with Merce Cunningham for many years

John cage

Which choreographer’s works extend from abstract to dramatic, humor to satire, while using classical music to accompany his work?

Paul Taylor

Which choreographer used blues, gospel, and spiritual music for his choreography

Alvin Ailey

Which dancer was a commercially successful choreographer known for fusion of dance vocabularies and intricate timing

Twyla Tharp

Which choreographer was interested in blowing the lines between dancers and non-dancers. her choreography was created using a series of generic task that turned every everyday gestures into dance vocabulary

Trisha Brown

Which choreographer was known for creating work with socially and politically charged themes

Bill T Jones

Who is the American choreographer/director whose work is acclaimed for its craftsmanship, ingenuity and humor?

Mark Morris

Which choreographer used spoken word in her site specific works. She also experimented with gravity.

Trisha brown

Which choreography found inspiration for choreography in female literary characters, American Southwest and the frontier, psychological themes, Greek myths and cosmic themes

Martha Graham

Who choreographed revelations

Alvin Ailey

If the dancer travels from stage left to stage right, according to the Russian method of fixed points, the dance would be traveling from what number to what number

6 to 8

Which school of technique is known for its strength and spacious lines and movement of grand flamboyant and rich style

Italian

What school of technique is known for its soft, graceful movements, with little ornate, rococo feeling in its style

French

What is the definition of placement?

Equal amount of space between the shoulder ribs and hips

What is the definition of pull up?

Stomach lifted up and back to the spine

What is the final exercise in ballet class?

Reverence

What is definition of en croix

In the shape of a cross

What is the definition of adagio

At ease

What is definition of a terror

On the ground

What is the definition of battement

Beating

What is the definition of efface devant

Shaded in front

What is the definition of grande jete

Large leap

What is the definition of assemble

Assembled

What is the definition of chaines

Chains

What is the definition of changement

Change

What is the definition of chasse

To chase

What is the definition of corps de ballet

Body of the ballet

What is the definition of coupe

Cutting

What is the definition of croise

Crossed

Which port de bras do all the schools have in common

1st

Which cecchetti port de bras is this

4th en avant

Which Vaganova port de bras is this

5th en haut

Which French port de bras is this

5th en haut

Which French port de bras is this

2nd

Which cecchetti port de bras is this

5th en haut

Which vaganova port de bras is this

5th en bas

Which French port de bras is this

5th en bas

A muscle strain usually happens when a muscle is stretched beyond its limit, tearing the muscle

True

There are four hamstring muscles,

Gracilis, biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus

False

The primary function of abductor muscles in the upper to draw the legs towards each each other

True

The iliotibial band is a tendon that contributes to the lateral power of the hip and leg

True

What tendon is this

Achilles

What muscle is this

Gastrocnemius

What muscle is this

Gluteus Maximus

What muscle group is this

Hamstring

What muscle is this

Gastrocnemius

What muscle group is this

Intrinsic