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.
Impact of Dunham's work ·Established African American dance as own art form
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Structure
The author mentions experts in dance as part of an explanation for why dance was neglected as an area of social science research prior to Dunham. Scientists besides Dunham didn’t have the dance training, while other people with sufficient dance training didn’t have Dunham’s social science research expertise.
The author mentions experts in dance as part of an explanation for why dance was neglected as an area of social science research prior to Dunham. But the reference to experts in dance doesn’t suggest why social scientists didn’t embrace dance. We’re already given the reason they didn’t embrace dance in the previous line — they didn’t have enough training in dance. The reference to dance experts concerns why dance experts didn’t study dance ethnography.
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The author mentions experts in dance as part of an explanation for why dance was neglected as an area of social science research prior to Dunham. Although the author suggests Dunham was more qualified than others to study dance ethnography, this doesn’t imply that the author believes a certain “group” was more qualified to study dance than another group.
The author mentions experts in dance as part of an explanation for why dance was neglected as an area of social science research prior to Dunham. The reference to dance experts doesn’t identify anything related to Dunham’s motivation. The reference to dance experts concerns why Dunham was more qualified than others to study dance as an ethnographer.
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This is the best answer. The author mentions experts in dance as part of an explanation for why dance was neglected as an area of social science research prior to Dunham.
The author mentions experts in dance as part of an explanation for why dance was neglected as an area of social science research prior to Dunham. The author doesn’t suggest there was any tension between anthropologists and dance experts.
Difficulty
91% 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%135
142
75%150
Analysis
Purpose in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
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Art
Single position
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Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
1%
154
b
3%
153
c
5%
153
d
91%
163
e
1%
151
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