Basic Dance Facts
What is a ballerinas "dress" called?
What is a tutu
When did the style of ballet first start?
What is in the 1500's
How many ballet dancers a year suffer from eating disorders?
What is up to 16.4% of ballet dancers as of 2019
What is a plie?
What is a barre?
what is a horizontal bar at waist level on which ballet dancers rest a hand for support during certain exercises.
What are ballerinas dance shoes called?
What are pointe shoes
What country did ballet first originate in?
What is Italy
Why do a percentage of dancers feel like they have to stop eating?
What is pressure from the internet on body type, strict teachers, and possibly comparing themselves to other people and fellow dancers.
What is a tendu
what is (of a position) stretched out or held tautly.
What supplies does a dancer use to make their pointe shoes more comfortable to dance in?
What is toe tape, lambs wool, toe pads, alcohol spray, band aids
What kind of hair style does a ballerina wear most of all of the time?
What is a bun
What was the first ever style of dance?
What is Circle Dancing
What can an eating disorder cause for you physicially?
What is Dry skin, lost muscle mass, brittle hair and nails, extreme thinnes.
What is a pirouette?
what is an act of spinning on one foot, typically with the raised foot touching the knee of the supporting leg.
What are pointe shoes made out of?
what is the sole is constructed from a single piece of leather that is attached to the shoe with adhesive and reinforced by stitching along its edges. Shanks are typically made from leather, plastic, card stock, or layers of glue-hardened burlap.
How long does it take to make a tutu?
What is up to 75 hours
When and where did the first archaeological proof of dance come from?
What is from 9000 year old cave paintings from India
Why is having an eating disorder bad for you mentally?
What is having anxiety and irritability around meal time, depression, slowed thing and decreased ability to concentrate
What is a grand battement
what is executed with the free leg lifted high from the floor.
What did ballerinas used to make their pointe shoes out of?
what is newspaper, flour paste, and pasterboard
How much does an average tutu cost?
What is 2000 dollars
What was dance originally used to do?
What is to tell myths about gods
What are the biggest causes for people getting eating disorders?
What is influence from others, diet culture, the internet, trauma, and weight teasing
What is an attitude
What is a pose on one leg with the other lifted in back, the knee bent at an angle of ninety. degrees and well turned out so that the knee is higher than the foot.
What is up to 10 pointe shoes