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Ballet Basics
Important People
Ballets
100

What two kinds of shoes do ballet dancers wear?

Pointe shoes and flat shoes

100

Who is the queen that made the first ballet?

Catherine de Medici

100

What is the Most Famous Ballet?

Nutcracker

200

What's a way that ballet dancers communicate with the audience to tell the story?

Through gestures and mime.
200

Serenade the Ballet is from what country?

United States/American Ballet

300

How many parts are there to a pas de duex? 

5 Parts

  1. Entrée - a big entrance for the main couple

  2. An adagio duet (pas de deux)

  3. Flat Variation (Traditionally Male)

  4. Pointe variation (Traditionally female)

  5. A coda - a quick final dance with flashy steps from the main couple

300

Who started School of American Ballet (SAB) and New York City Ballet (NYCB)?

George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein