Dance Terminology
Process of spontaneously creating movement. Development of movement material is facilitated through a variety of creative explorations including body mapping through levels, shape and dynamics schema
Improv
Class you might wear pink tights and a skirt to
Ballet/pointe
Kids musical with Troy and Gabriella
High School Musical
Famous renegade Tik Tok dancer
Charli D'Amelio
Dance competition show with Jennifer Lopez as a judge
The body stays in place while one leg starts inward and kicks all the way around to its original position. These are often used in kick lines and Broadway-style routines, such as Fosse influenced choreography.
Fan kick
May incorporate therabands and/or weights
Strength and conditioning
Hair product that keeps your hair stiff - also happens to be the name of a musical
Hairspray
Name 3 brands of dance costumes/catalogues
Kelle, Weissman, Costume Gallery, Curtain Call, Revolution
Abby Lee Miller dance competition show where Kalani and Jojo got their start
Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition
A shuffle hop step in tap can also be called...
An Irish
What class you'd learn ballet partnering in
Pas de deux
Musical with Elphaba and Glinda
Wicked
Name of ballet with Odile and Odette
Swan Lake
Dance movie featuring Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan
Step Up
Classical ballet term meaning “open forward.” It is another way to describe a step is done effacé and is the opposite of a step done croisé.
Ouvert
Name of class you'd learn ballet variations in
Repetoire
Musical that follows the storyline of newspaper sellers who are tired of the exploitation done to them by their bosses.
Newsies
Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly were famous dancers in what style of dance?
Tap
80s dance movie with famous water scene and "What a Feeling" song
Flashdance
A classical ballet term meaning “rumbling.” A dancer performs this by degageing one leg to the side, then doing a small rond de jambe with that leg while pushing off the floor with the other leg and then doing a rond de jambe with that leg
Gargouillade
Type of class you might hear someone talking about Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
Tap
Musical about a young boy who one day stumbles into a ballet class
Billy Elliot
Name of the word-wide ballet competition that the dancers are working toward in the documentary "First Position"
Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP)
70s John Travolta disco movie
Saturday Night Fever