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
Passage Style
Single position
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Question Type
Stated
It’s difficult to predict the correct answer just based on the question stem. But we can tell that the correct answer is likely to be supported by P3, which describes Dunham’s research into dance beginning in 1935.
a
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The author doesn’t compare which dance forms had more influence on the dances studied by Dunham beginning in 1935.
b
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“First” is too extreme. We don’t know that these dance forms were the “first” to use dance-isolation outside of Africa.
c
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The author never indicates that the dance forms studied by Dunham shared rhythmic characteristics with dance forms of North American ballets.
d
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The author never suggests that the dance forms studied by Dunham in 1935 had already influenced popular dances in North America.
e
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Supported by the beginning of P3. African culture is non-Caribbean.
Difficulty
75% 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%143
152
75%160
Analysis
Stated
Art
Single position
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Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
5%
157
b
12%
155
c
6%
157
d
1%
155
e
75%
164
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