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1 What is the medium of dance?
Correct. Dance uses the body as its medium and movement as its material.
Dance has no external material. The body itself is the medium, and motion is what it works with.
2 The lesson says that dance's subject matter can be
Correct. The lesson stresses that feeling is dance's most fundamental subject matter, because the body communicates emotional states more directly than words.
Think of the three kinds of dance in the lesson: pure pattern, expressed feeling, and told story.
3 How did modern dance differ from ballet?
Correct. Pioneers such as Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham wanted movement that came from the body's own impulses.
Modern dance was a reaction against ballet's fixed vocabulary. Look for the answer about natural, expressive motion.
4 What is the earliest root of dance named in the lesson?
Correct. The path runs from ritual through court dance and ballet to modern and contemporary forms.
Dance is far older than any of the media in the other options. The lesson traces it to ceremonial dances.
5 In Martha Graham's Lamentation, what does the fabric do?
Correct. Graham said she was not depicting sorrow but showing what sorrow does to the body.
The fabric is part of the dance's form. It stretches into shapes that show grief without illustrating a particular event.
6 Which sequence describes the three sections of Alvin Ailey's Revelations?
Correct. The dance moves from earthbound, weighted movement to soaring, joyful lifts, and it grows from the rhythms and emotions of spirituals.
Revelations follows an emotional arc that begins in struggle and ends in joy, with a ritual of baptism in between.