Types of Dance
Combines all dance styles in a high energetic dance that is without conventional boundaries.
What is Jazz?
The heels are together, with toes turned out until the feet are in a straight line.
What is 1st position?
An American ballet dancer for American Ballet Theatre, one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States.
Who is Misty Copeland?
A ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76.
What is Swan Lake?
A fully extended leap.
What is a jeté?
A range of street dance styles primarily performed to hip hop music or that have evolved as part of hip hop culture.
What is Hip-Hop?
The feet are in a parallel line, separated by a distance of about 12 inches (30 cm) and both turned outward, with the weight equally divided between them.
What is 2nd position?
An American ballerina. She was considered America's first major prima ballerina. She was the first Native American to hold the rank.
Who is Maria Tallchief?
A ballet in a prologue and three acts to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 66, completed in 1889.
What is Sleeping Beauty?
A spin with the knee up.
What is a jazz-pirouette?
A type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.
What is ballet?
The heel of one foot rests against the instep of the other; both are firmly turned out, and the weight is divided between them.
What is 3rd position?
A British ballerina and a choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet. Most noted for her career with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and touring internationally.
Who is Alicia Markova?
An 1892 two-act classical ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination.
What is The Nutcracker?
A leap with a roll at the end.
What is a Calypso?
A dance style that embodies various aspects of ballet, jazz, acrobatics, and modern dance.
What is lyrical?
The heel of the front foot is aligned with the toe of the back foot.
What is 4th position?
A Russian ballet dancer. Formerly a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet, she is currently a prima ballerina with the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Who is Olga Smirnova?
A comic ballet from 1870 originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon to the music of Léo Delibes, with libretto by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter.
What is Coppelia?
A bending of the knees.
What is a plié?
A style of Latin American music, combining elements of Cuban, Puerto Rican, and American influences.
What is Salsa?
The feet are turned out and pressed closely together, the heel of the one foot against the toe of the other.
What is 5th position?
An American actress and former professional ballet dancer. She is known for her lead role in the 2000 film Center Stage.
Who is Amanda Schull?
A romantic ballet in two acts with music by Adolphe Adam.
What is Giselle?
A step-together-step.
What is a chasse?