Republic of the Philippines

Central Philippines State University

DON JUSTO V.VALMAYOR CAMPUS
San Carlos City, Negros Occidental

MIDTERM EXAMINATION
P.E. 2 Rhythmic Activities

Name: Course/section: Date:

Test I: Identify the following, choose your answer below and write your answer on the space
provided.

1. The basis of music and dance.

2. On occasions that celebrated births, commemorated deaths, and
marked special events in between.
3. To ask gods to end a famine, to provide rain, or to cure the sick.
4. The first great culture to infuse its entire society with the magic of
dance.
5. Participation in dance and drama festivals was a religious exercise, not
merely an amusement.
6. Distorted the balance and harmony that characterized Greek dances,
putting the most emphasis on spectacle and mime.
7. Originally, dance movements were part of these pieces as well as music
and a dramatic dialogue.
8. Responsible for seeing that the dances were performed correctly so that
the hunt would be successful.
9. Mimed expression or wordless action.
10. Egyptian dance steps look remarkably like steps in?
11. As applied to dance, energy describes an exertion which initiates,
controls, and stops movement.
12. It appears to flow, with no obvious beginning or ending. It has
unaccented continuity, with nothing to break the smooth progression of directed energy.
13. It consists of a continuum of percussive movements, a repetition of
individual start and stop patterns with little space and time between repetitions.
14. This occurs when there is a release of tension of the muscles and gravity
takes over.
15. Includes a dancer’s level in regard to the floor surface and the direction
in which he is moving.
16. Movements exist in space, which to dancers means a potential of
position and dimension.
17. This refers to the size of the dancer’s movement. Size is related to the
dancers range of movement both in space and on the floor surface.
18. Dance movement uses energy to fill space, but it must do so within
time.
19. The degree of body control and mastery of basic steps and positions, is
very much necessary for dance movements to clearly the dancers purpose in moving along with
gestures, especially hand movements.
20. Often described as nonlocomotor movement in that the body moves in
space rather than through space.
Ancient Egyptian social dances magical or religious dances rhythm
Ancient Greece Roman Empire Christian Era Priest dancer
Pantomimed classical ballet Dance Gymnastics

Energy Vibratory movement Sustained movement

collapsing movement Position Time Space
Technique Axial movement locomotor movement Flexion

Test II: Name the following Dance Notations.

21. 26.

22. 27.

23. 28.

24. 29.

25. 30.

Test III: Draw the following formations (2 pts) each.

31. Column formation Partners facing front

32. Column formation Partners facing each other

33. Semi-Circle Formation Partners facing front

34. Square formation partners facing center occupying sides of square

35. Single circle facing clockwise

36. Single circle facing in

37. Single circle partners facing

38. In single file rectangular patterns

39. Double circle partners facing counterclockwise

40. Double circle partners facing each other