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Cards (38)

  • tap dance
    a step dance tapped out audibly by means of shoes with hard soles and heels to which taps sounds are produced,
  • shuffle along
    all dancers are wearing tap shoes and previous name of tap dance
  • united states
    In what country did tap dance originate
  • african tribal dances, scottish, irish, and english clog dances, hornpipes, and jigs
    the tap dance influences..
  • african slaves and irish perform tap dance in
    cotton and wheat plantations
  • five points district, new york city

    it is suggested that this place where tap dance gained popular
  • afro-american William henry lane and irish john jack diamond
    primary showcase of tap dance in cutting contests
  • master juba
    other name of william henry lane
  • buck dancing, soft-shoe dancing, buck-and-wing dancing
    other influences of tap dancing
  • buck dancing
    it is similar to clog dancing
  • soft shoe dancing
    popular in vaudeville
  • buck-and-wing dancing
    fast and flashy dance done in wooden-soled shoes
  • harland dixon and jimmy doyle
    duo dancers of buck-and-wing dancing
  • shuffle
    combination of brush and strike. stand properly and turn your feet out and then stand on your foot (l) while lifting the foot (r)
  • ball change
    stand your feet side by side but not touching the floor
  • single buffalo
    stand properly with your feet apart. rear on the left then step it with ball
  • line dance
    choreographed dance where dancer are arranged in linear position.
  • line dance
    dancers are not in physical contact with one another
  • wall
    series of repeating sequence of steps
  • line dance
    dancer may face one another and may hole one another's hand
  • line dance
    has 32-64 beats
  • madison
    popular line dance in late 1950s
  • line dance
    max perry song swamp thang that helped start a trend of dancing line dance
  • balkan countries like bulgaria, czech republic, slovakia, slovenia
    countries that have tradition with line dance up till now
  • ball change
    step onto ball with your right foot and change weight
  • kick-ball change
    kick your right foot forward and step ball with right foot
  • point-ball change
    steps are same with kick-ball change
  • basic charleston
    step left foot forward and right foot in front of left foot
  • shuffle
    slide your left foot clsoer to your right foot
  • contemporary dance
    does not follow specific pattern of standard steps
  • contemporary dance
    dancers keep their feet on the ground
  • contemporary dance
    expression of oneself like expressing freedom through movement
  • martha graham and merce cunningham
    pioneer of contemporary dance
  • martha graham
    introduced and popularized the dance
  • merce cunningham
    expanded modern dance with his improvisation and choreography
  • limon technique
    uses natural gravitaitional pull of the wight and heavy energy of body
  • release
    emphasis on minimizing tension in search of clarity and fluidity
  • I ching
    decide movements technique of merce