French vocab
What Plié is translated to.
what is bend of the legs/knees?
This country is where the very origin of ballet started.
What is Italy?
The first African American principle dancer at ABT
Who is Misty Copeland?
This iconic ballet was originally considered a flop.
What is The Nutcracker?
A movie fully inspired by The Nutcracker, came out in 2018.
What is The Nutcracker and the Four Realms?
adagio
What is slow tempo?
After Italy, ballet picked up in these two countries.
what is France and russia?
This dancer holds the record for most consecutive pirouettes
Who is Sophia Lucia?
In the late 1800s, ballet was banned in this country.
What is Japan?
A popular children’s animated movie, where the main character escapes her orphanage to fulfill her dreams to dance in Paris.
Chaîne
ballet started in this century in Italy.
What is the 1500s?
Michel Fokine choreographed The Dying Swan for this dancer. She attended Russia’s Imperial Ballet School before joining the Mariinsky Theatre. She was also the first ballerina to tour globally.
Who is Anna Pavlova?
The tutu was inspired by artworks of female dancers based in this country.
What is (Ancient) Greece?
a popular teen movie, where a few teenagers train at The American Ballet Academy, and each of the three main characters have something holding them back from letting them fulfill their dreams
What is Center Stage?
Dégagé
What is disengage?
This French king is known to have widely influenced ballet during the 16th and 17th centuries
This male dancer starred in a biographical film The White Crow. Born 1938
Who is Rudolf Nureyev?
The record number of consecutive fouettés, completed by Delia Gray in 1991
What is 166?
a young ballerina is invited to a company by her mom’s old dance friend. Came out in 1977
What is The Turning Point?
Ouvert
preformed in 1581, this is considered to be the first major ballet performance.
What was Le Ballet Comique de la Reine?
This dancer spent her entire career at The Royal Ballet, eventually being appointed Prima Ballerina Assoluta
Who is Margot Fonteyn?
Women weren't allowed to dance in public until this year.
What is 1681?
A not-so-PG movie where a young ballerina in France chases her dream of the lead role in Swan Lake, but a more experienced and manipulative dancer tries to get in her way.