Show:
Bugaku
Ballet on the Move
On Your Toes
Tu-Tu Much
Random facts
100
Bugaku is a dance from this country.
What is Japan?
100
Ballet originated in this country.
What is Italy?
100
This woman was great at ballet technique and took the heels off of her shoes.
Who is Marie Camargo?
100
This type of shoe literally elevated the female dancer.
What are pointe shoes?
100
This gentleman created the five positions.
Who is Beauchamps?
200
Dancers in Bugaku perform in these numbers.
What is 2,4 and 8?
200
Only this type person was allowed to perform Ballet in the beginning.
What is a male of aristocracy?
200
This woman was a wonderful performer on the stage.
Who was Marie Salle?
200
Skirts were raised to this length by Camargo.
What is the ankle?
200
This Ballet was not well received in it's opening performances.
What is The Nutcracker?
300
This is the music associated with Bugaku.
What is Gagaku
300
This King created the Royal Academy of Dance and Music.
Who is King Louis XIV?
300
This person wrote a book on Letters on Dancing and Ballet.
Who is Jean-Georges Noverre?
300
Ballet moved to this space to allow more people to attend ballet and raise the status of the dancers.
What is a stage?
300
This company is one of the most prestigious in the United States.
What is American Ballet Theater (ABT)?
400
Bugaku costumes are made in these two colors.
What are cromson and blue?
400
Ballet was originally performed in this space.
What is a court?
400
This book detailed that the plot, costumes, music, scenery and musicl score should all be unified in a ballet.
What is Letters on Dancing and Ballet?
400
This country took ballet to a new level in artistry.
What is Russia?
400
Because of his death, ballet moved to the United States.
Who is Diaghalev?
500
This is the space where Bugaku takes place.
What is a court?
500
Ballet was used to teach the common people this.
What are manners/etiquette?
500
This is the official language for Ballet terminology.
What is French?
500
This choreographer was careful to not offend the aristocracy with his Ballets.
Who is Petipa?
500
This Ballet is about a young girl betrayed by her love and but chooses to save his life in the end.
What is Giselle?