One of the more striking developments in modern North American dance was African American choreographer Katherine Dunham's introduction of a technique known as dance-isolation, in which one part of the body moves in one rhythm while other parts are kept stationary or are moved in different rhythms. ███ █████████████ ██ ████ █████████ ████ █████ ████████ ███ ████████ ████████████ ██ ██████████ ███████ ████████ ███████ █████ ██ ███ █████████ ████ ████ ████ █████████ ██ ███████████ ██████ ██ ███████ ████████ ██████████ ███ ██████████████ █████████ ███
Intro topic ·Katherine Dunham brought dance-isolation technique to North American choreography
Dance-isolation = one part of body moves to rhythm while other parts stay still or move to a different rhythm. Variations of this move were part of African, Caribbean, and Pacific-island cultures.
Historical context ·Dance was neglected as area of social research
Social scientists tended to focus on stuff they thought was more scientifically rigorous. Also, social scientists didn't have as much training in dance as Dunham; dance experts didn't have her training in social science research.
Dunham's radical approach ·Dunham participated in dances herself
Social scientists advised her not to do this, because they assumed (wrongly) that science must be done from position of detachment. By participating in dances herself, Dunham understood the techniques well enough to teach them to others.
The passage tells us that dance had been neglected primarily because most social scientists gravitated toward areas likely to be recognized by their “peers” as befitting scientifically rigorous modes of inquiry. This implies that the “peers” likely would have considered dance to be an area that was not scientifically rigorous. Let’s look for an answer that best fits the idea that dance isn’t scientifically rigorous.
a
Most social scientists ███ ████ █████████ ██ █████ █████ ██ █ ████████ ██████████ ████ ██████████████ ███
We have no reason to think the “peers” believed dance was misinterpreted by people who attempted to study it.
b
Social scientists need ███ ██ ████ ██████ ██ █████ ██████████ ██ █████ ██ ██████ ████████ ████ █████ █████
This wouldn’t fit what the “peers” think, because the “peers” would think that dance isn’t an area that’s scientifically rigorous. It’s not clear that the “peers” would even believe that we can obtain reliable data about dance.
c
Research into dance ██ █ ████████ ████ ██████ ██ █████████ ████ █ ████ ██████ ██ ██████████ ██████████
The passage tells us that dance had been neglected primarily because most social scientists gravitated toward areas likely to be recognized by their “peers” as befitting scientifically rigorous modes of inquiry. This implies that the “peers” likely would have considered dance to be an area that was not scientifically rigorous. (C) is the closest match to the idea that dance isn’t considered scientifically rigorous.
d
Most experts in ███ █████ ██ █████ ███ ███ ███████████ ██ ███████ ███████ ██ ███ █████ ██ █████ ██████████
We have no reason to think the “peers” believed dance experts were too busy to do studies about dance ethnology.
e
Dance forms are ███ ████████ ██████ ████████ ██ ██████ ████████ █████ ██ ████ ███████████
The idea of dance forms being “too variable” isn’t supported as something the “peers” would believe. Although we know they considered dance not to be scientifically rigorous, we don’t know that this has anything to do with the variability of dance forms.
Difficulty
77% of people who answer get this correct
This is a moderately difficult question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%127
143
75%159
Analysis
Implied
Other’s perspective
Art
Single position
Spotlight
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
1%
152
b
4%
155
c
77%
163
d
2%
155
e
15%
160
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