Technique & Terminology
The basic position where heels touch and toes point outward.
What is first position?
A swan, a lake, and was written by Tchaikovsky.
What is Swan Lake?
The special shoes worn by ballerinas to dance on their toes.
What are pointe shoes?
George Balanchine co-founded this famous American company.
What is New York City Ballet?
The person responsible for choreographing a ballet.
What is a Choreographer?
This term means "to bend" and is often done at the barre.
What is plie?
A girl, a prince, and a glass slipper.
What is Cinderella?
What goes over the dancers tights that is the main part of their uniform?
What is a leotard?
Paris is home to this historic ballet institution.
What is the Paris Opera Ballet?
This word means "to rise" onto the toes or pointe.
What is relevé?
A young girl goes on a magical journey in her sleep and has a dream of visiting several magical kingdoms on Christmas Day.
What is the Nutcracker?
The daily routine you perform at the beginning of class.
What is Barre?
The term for the male lead dancer.
What is a danseur?
This term for "beaten" describes steps with rapid leg beats.
What is battu?
This ballet tells the tragic story of a Princess who falls into long eternity of sleep on her 16 birthday.
What is Sleeping Beauty?
This daily activity helps dancers gain flexibility and prevents injury.
What is stretching?
This country is known for its Cecchetti method of ballet training.
What is Italy?
This Italian word means a dance for two.
What is a pas de deux?
A movement where the working leg is thrown into the air and the dancer lands on the same leg.
What is a grand jeté?
This two-act ballet involves a woman dying of a broken heart.
What is Giselle?
What dancers use in sewing to keep their point shoes together / in tact.
What are elastics and ribbons?
The Royal Ballet is headquartered in this European country.
What is London?
This backstage cue tells dancers when to prepare for their entrance.
What is a call or stage cue?