Ballet Terms/ Technique
The basic position where heels touch and toes point outward.
What is first position?
A girl, a prince, and a glass slipper.
What is Cinderella?
The special shoes worn by ballerinas to dance on their shoes.
What are pointe shoes?
George Balanchine co-founded this famous American Company.
What is New York City Ballet?
Who is the person responsible for choreographing a ballet?
What is a choreographer?
This term mean "to bend" and is often done at the barre.
What is plie?
A swan, a lake, and was written by Tchaikvosky.
What is Swan Lake?
What goes over the dancers tights that is the main part of their uniforms?
What is a leotard
Paris is home to this historic ballet institution.
What is Opera Ballet?
Before performing, dancers often change their costumes, do their hair and makeup, and spend most of their time backstage in this place.
What is a dressing room?
This word means "to rise" onto the toes or pointe.
What is releve?
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?
Ballet dancers often learn French terms in a different language, because ballet terminology comes from this language.
What is French?
What is the term for the male lead dancer?
What is a danseur?
This term for "beaten" describes with rapid leg beats
What is battu?
This ballet tells the tragic story of a princess who falls into a long eternity of sleep on her 16th 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 dance or two.
What is 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 jete?
This two-act ballet involves a woman dying of a broken heart.
What is Giselle?
What dancers use in sewing to keep their pointe 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 of stage cue?