Dancers
Choreographer for American Ballet Theater, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and the original musicals Oklahoma, Carousel, and Brigadoon. A portrait of her was featured in 2018 Through the Canvas.
Who is Agnes de Mille?
This era is famous for ballets featuring ghosts, sylphs, and other magical creatures, often dressed in white.
What is the Romantic Era?
The part of ballet class featuring Sauté, jeté, assemblé, and sissone is often referred to as this?
What is petit allegro?
Traditional part of a jazz warm up where you move one body part at a time
What are isolations?
The language of ballet
What is French?
She is often credited as being the first to dance on pointe.
Who was Marie Taglioni?
Composer of Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and the Nutcracker.
Who is Tchaikovsky?
A position where the legs appear crossed to the audience.
What is Croisé?
Two quick changes of weight from one ball of the foot to the other.
What is a ball-change?
Low, Medium and High
what are levels?
French ruler whose court is considered the birthplace of ballet.
Who is Louis XIV?
A group of dancers who move in unison.
What is a corps de ballet?
Refers to doing movements in the pattern of a cross.
What is en croix?
position where the head and tailbone make a curved line
What is a c curve?
Examples include soft, sharp, free, and bound
What is energy?
His powerful male swans were made even more famous by the movie and musical "Billie Elliot."
Who is Matthew Bourne?
The reason we have the terms "upstage" and "downstage."
What is a raked stage?
Mazurka, Tarantella, Polka and Czardas are examples of this kind of dance, often featured in classical ballets from the 19th century.
What is Character?
Founder of the modern technique that includes high lateral and lateral T positions
Who is Lester Horton?
bend, stretch, rise, glide, jump, dart and turn.
What are the 7 movements of dance?
Credited with being the first African-American woman to dance for a major classical ballet company, she was a mentor to ABT principal Misty Copeland.
Who is Raven Wilkinson?
What is en dedans?
American choreographer whose technique is based on contraction and release and opposition and spirals
Who is Martha Graham?
a notation system for recording and analyzing human movement derived from the work of Rudolf Laban
What is Labanotation?