DANCE CULTURES Midterm Exam Directions There are 8 one point questions. You will answer 4.

There are 17 two point questions. You will answer 10 There are 3 three point questions. You will answer 2. There are 11 five point questions. You will answer 5. There are 7 ten point questions. You will answer 1. The questions follow the reading. However, there may be other material found in various sections of the reading that will contribute to the forming of your answers. All answers must be in your own words. Use your vocabulary list words within your

answers. This is due Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at the beginning of class. There are 110 possible points.
Aesthetic Corporeal Cosmology Efficacy Embody/Embodiment Holistic Iconographic Ineffable Kinesthetic Metaphor Non-literate Pantheistic Perception Perspective Poly-centric Poly-rhythmic Propitiate Sentience

DANCE CULTURES Midterm Questions Fall 2011 How can we explain the universality of dance? (2) How do societies use dance? (2) Why are women's movements more restricted than men's? What does that reveal about the societies views on gender? (2) What are the functions of dance in society outlined by the author?(5) Why is it important to consider, and hopefully, understand the cultural identity and context from which a particular dance form emanates?(3) Discuss Cambodian dance; its history, its place in Cambodian culture, its uses and sources for dance dramas. Why would the Khmer Rouge seek to destroy the dance and dancers of Cambodia? (10) Finish this sentence: Encoded in the form, technique and structure of every dance . . . . (2)

What is the distinction between secular and sacred? Why is it significant in the development and use of dance? Why does this distinction have little meaning in nonWestern cultures? (5) Who were the Tahitian arioi? What was their function in Tahitian culture? Why were they suppressed and by whom? (5) What are the reasons an invading culture would suppress the "conquered" culture's arts and dance? (2) What is the Tamure? What is its purpose? Why would this be important? (5) What is the oldest use of dance? Discuss how the Hopi Indians use this kind of dancing. (10) Why did the Ghost dance appear? Where did it emerge? What was the desired effect? How was it viewed by the United States government? (10) Why did the intertribal powwow become an intertribal dance competition? (2)

TRANCE What is trance? Where does it appear? What role does it play in ritual? In what ways do people become "possessed"? How does trance enter into the worship of the snake gods and goddesses of Kerala? Why is it important to placate these gods? What role does it play in the Yoruba peoples' dance rituals? (10) Why is it problematic to define dance in strictly Western terms? (2) Trace the history of the Zeruru people's dance the mbende. (10) Who is Shiva? (5) What was the consequence of the "almost complete excising of dance from Christian worship? (2) How did secular dancing affect other types of dance? (3) Define LABYRINTH. (1) What role did the Reformation and the ensuing Counter Reformation play in the sacred use of dance? (2)

How did Western ambivalence about the dancing body affect the aesthetics of ballet? (2) How does movement reflect the attitude of a community? (2) In the Yoruba tradition, where do the two realms of existence meet? (2) What is the relationship between the Yoruba people and their Orishas? (5) Define and discuss EGUNGUN. (5) Define ORIKI. (1) Define SANGO. (1) Define NATYA SHASTRA. (1) Define RASA. (1) Define RASIKA. What is the relationship between the performer and audience? (3) Define DEVADASIS. (2) What is the perspective the Bharata Natyam dancer on her body? Discuss the dance form. (10)

What do you find interesting in Malavika Sarrukai's quote? (5) What is KATHAKALI? (10) In India as in ancient Greece physical discipline is/was seen as what? (2) What are the RAMAYANA and THE MAHABHARATA? (2) Discuss the differences, the development and the perspectives behind the specific spiritualities discussed in LORD of the DANCE that gave expression to attitudes about the body and the dance. (20) Why have the courts of Ghana, central Java and the imperial court of Japan survived the transition to other forms of government? (5) Define DWO. (1) Define DANSEUR NOBLE. (1) Why do courts come into existence? (2) Compare and contrast the courts of Louis the XIV, the Asantehene of Ghana, the Emperor of Japan and the sultan of Java. Discuss their histories, development and evolution as repositories of cultural dance forms. How and why did these dance forms develop, survive and evolve.

How are the dance forms reflective of the courts in which they exist and existed. (20) How does dance differ from poetry, painting, sculpture and music? (2) How has television and video affected the presentation of dance and dance as a communicative language? (5) How has this dissemination of dance forms altered the forms? How has this global dissemination of dance affected the ways in which we perceive dance and dancing? (5) How can technology serve the art form of dance? (5) What has been "surprising" or revelatory to you about dance and its place in cultures since the beginning of the quarter? (5)