What is Ballet?
It's a highly technical and formal type of performance dance that originated in the Italian Renaissance during the 15th century.
What is Ballet?
It's the ensemble of a ballet company.
What is Corps de ballet?
It's defined by the rise of the ballerina, ethereal themes of the supernatural, and the introduction of the pointe shoe and romantic tutu.
What is the Romantic Era?
The arm position that is rounded and placed at the bottom of the body.
What is 5th en bas?
Heel to Arch or middle of foot
What is 3rd position?
Turn out, pointe work, posture and french vocabulary
What are core characteristics of Ballet?
A musician who plays an instrument to provide harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic support for a main performer, singer, or soloist
What is an accompanist?
A 20th-century dance style that uses traditional classical technique but focuses on abstract movement instead of heavy storytelling.
What is Neoclassical?
The arm position that is considered side and slightly curved front to the body.
What is à la seconde?
Heel to Toe
What is 5th position?
Who is King Louis XIV?
A solo dance piece performed by a principal or soloist character within a larger, full-length ballet
What is a Variation?
It originated in the Italian Renaissance as a courtly entertainment that blended music, dance, and dramatic elements
What is Court Dance?
What is 5th en haut?
Open front
What is 4th position?
Weightlessness and Otherworldly
What is 2 characteristics did the pointe shoe allow dancers to give the illusion of?
A performer at the highest rank within a professional dance or ballet company
What is a principal dancer?
It's defined by extreme technical precision, formal codification, and grand story-driven theatrical productions anchored by the Russian Imperial style
What is the Classical Era?
Arm position considered to be the most away from the body.
Heels connected
What is 1st position?
Marius Petipa
Who is the Father of Classical Ballet?
A formal bow or curtsy performed at the end of a class or performance to show respect and gratitude.(Ms. Fontenot's most favorite part of class)
What is reverence?
A hybrid dance genre that combines classical ballet technique with the freer, expressive elements of 20th-century modern dance.
What is Contemporary Ballet?
A movement or series of movements made by passing the arm or arms through various positions.
What is port de bras?
Side to side
What is 2nd position?