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| Our textbook is dedicated to the memory of _______ _______ whose furtherance of African Dance in America is legendary. |
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| Her coreography chronicled the ______ ______ in the United States and the traditional dances of Africa & in the Caribbean. |
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| "Strange Fruit" by Pearl Primus is considered a _____ _____, this piece was a protest against _____. |
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| Political Dance; Lynching. |
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| On one of her return trips to Africa, she was named "_____" - "the child returns home" by the Nigerians in Yoruba. |
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| This legendary dancer received the country's highest award, the Order of the Star of Africa for her stylization of the Liberian dance called "_____", known as a _____ _____. |
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| In the 1970's, Primus formed a dance company called the _____ _____ _____. |
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| "An investigator refers at all times to dance with _____, for dance without _____, though often very well done, is without life." |
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| According to Primus, what is expressed through dance becomes rhythmic movement of our _____. |
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| In African dance, the dancer has direction & purpose. The main purpose of the dancer is to _____. |
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| Why is it important for a healer or an Herbailist to excel in dance? |
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| To ward off sickness or cure and illness. |
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| Africans will dance about _____ and _____ they choose to remember. |
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| There are several themes for African dance, name 2. |
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| Cosutmes in African dance may vary from the most _____ and _____ to the _____ _____ _____. |
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| Elaborate; Exotic; Smooth Bare Body. |
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| In Africa, great musicians are _____ _____ by their people. |
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| For the African dancer, the Master Musician is the vehicle thorugh which the _____ _____ _____ _____ _____. |
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| Ancestors speak to the living. |
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| Dances may imitate _____ or things from the _____. |
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| Great drummers say, "We do not play the drum. We _____ _____ _____." |
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| An example of how environment affects the style of dance is the _____ people who live in the _____ _____ and use _____ as their instrument. |
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| Masai; Rift Valley; Voice. |
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| Ms. Green was able to discover that the pelvic contraction was used in African dance to _____ _____ _____ _____. |
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| Utilize a secondary rhythm |
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| Name the 3 types of masks used in African dance. _____, _____, _____ _____. |
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| The "Butt" dance as known in Black America, was taken from a popular dance in Senegal called "_____" where women are imitating the blades of a fan. |
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| What are the two forms of group dancing? _____ _____ for _____ and _____ _____ for _____. |
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| Circle formation, recreation; Line formation, war. |
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| The drum is known in Yoruba and the Caribbean as the _____. |
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| "The '_____' or controlling drum is used to play all the leading roles, improvisations, the proverbs & the dictates for _____." |
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| In Ghana "If you are a chief & cannot dance the way of your people, you can be _____." |
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| According to Judith Hanna in the funeral dances of the Dogon of Mali, "death _____ _____, but through the dance, humans metaphorically _____ _____ to the disordered world." |
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| Creates disorder; Restore order. |
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| When tribal wars were relatively common in Africa, _____ as a form of exercise was used to prepare young men both _____ & _____ for battle. |
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| Dance; Physically, Mentally. |
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| In the film documentary "Dancing Through West Africa," we learn that choreographer, _____ _____, has dedicated his life to the study of Africa & African dance, his classroom is the world itself. |
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| In Dakar, slaves were kept and shipped to & from the new world from a location also known as the "away station" or _____ _____. It is now a museum which displays the manifolds used to chain slaves together. |
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| "To understand the _____, study the _____. To understand _____, study the _____." |
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| Culture, dance; Dance, people. |
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| The local historian is known as the _____. |
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| "To learn the dance, first learn the _____." |
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