Ballet Terms
Ballet Positions
Ballet Productions
Pointe Shoes
Ballet facts
100

To pass

What is Passe?

100
Number of basic positions

What is 5?

100

Name of character that throws her shoe at a rat.

Who is Clara?

100

True or False - 

Pointe shoes are handmade

What is true?

100

True or False: Ballet was originally performed by men

What is True?

200

Slow sustained movements

What is adagio or adage?

200

separated wide open

What is Ecarte?

200

32 fouettes performed

What is Swan Lake?

200

True or False: Men can't dance pointe.

What is true? However nowadays many men dance en pointe

200

Origin of ballet

What is Italy?

300

Bell

What is encloche?

300

Crossed

What is Croise?

300

Comedy of errors featuring a doll.

What is Coppelia?

300

True or False: Pointe shoes are made of wood.

What is false? 

300

Amount of tulle used for one Performance tutu

What is 300 feet?

400

Open

What is Ouvert?

400

Behind

What is derriere?

400

Story of a young peasant girl

What is Giselle?

400

Amount of pointe manufacturers

What is 21?

400

Amount of pointe shoes Professional ballet dancers wear in one week

What is 2-3?

500
traveling forward

What is en Avant?

500

Shaded

What is Efface?

500

1st ballet production

What is Ballet de Polonaise - 1573

500
year pointe shoes were 1st made
What is the 1820s?
500

Century ballet started

What is the 15th century?

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