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• Which San Francisco-born American dancer is considered a pioneer of contemporary expressive dance?

  • Fred Astaire

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  • Martha Graham

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  • Isadora Duncan

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  • Ted Shawn

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• In your own words, what is a masque?

  • An act of camouflage

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  • A festival or entertainment

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  • French literature

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  • A kind of language

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• Choose the dance that best represents an Americanized form of quadrille?

  • Polka

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  • Waltz

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  • Twist

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  • Square dance

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• Who was the youngest American tap dancer to get a National Endowment for the Arts grant, in 1992?

  • Savion Glover

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  • Sammy Davis, Jr.

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  • Gregory Hines

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  • Fred Astaire

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• Which American dancer was famous for being able to run backward?

  • Mikhail Baryshnikov

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  • Bill (“Bojangles”) Robinson

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  • Gene Kelly

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  • Arthur Murray

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• What type of art form allows the deeply musical dancer to enter a duende, a trancelike state of focused, transcendent emotion?

  • Ballet

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  • Samba

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  • Flamenco

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  • Cha-cha

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• What is the name of the movement approach that significantly impacted the development of 20th-century dramatic dance?

  • Pilates

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  • Calisthenics

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  • Yoga

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  • Eurythmics

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• When you think about the Andalusian Roma of Spain, what kind of dance comes to mind?

  • Tango

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  • Samba

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  • flamenco

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  • polka

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