Bones
Fingers & Toes!
What are Phlanges?
Facing the Audience
What is Center Stage?
She turned down the lead in Firebird.
Step of the Cat.
What is a Pas de Chat?
Bone in the forearm on the thumb side.
Legs crossed to the audience with gesture leg to front
What is Croise Devant.
In the Cecchetti system it is corner 1.
What is Down Stage Right?
Her career had a 2nd start in her 40s.
Who is Margot Fonteyn?
A big throw.
What is a Grand Jete?
Largest bone in the body.
What is the Femur?
The leg to the side.
What is A La Seconde?
What is Downstage?
First Cast Female lead in Firebird, Petroushka, Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose.
Who was Tamara Karsavina?
A whipping action of the leg or hip.
The sacred support of your spine.
What is the Sacrum?
It means shaded to the front.
What is efface devant?
Number of the Audience wall in the Vaganova System.
What is 1?
Who is Lynn Seymour?
A beating jump from two feet that opens and closes with 4 actions.
What is an Entrechat Quatre?
Sits on top of the Calcaneus
What is the Talus?
It means 4th position back.
What is A La Quatrieme Derriere?
This is numbered the same in both Cecchetti & Vaganova systems.
What is corner 4.
Boris Eifman made her the heroine of his ballet, Red Giselle.
Who is Olga Spessivtseva?
A petit jeté that turns in the air.
What is a Saut de Basque?