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