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Dance History
Ballet Terms
Modern Terms
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100
This ballet is a Christmas classic involving a little girl and a special toy.
What is The Nutcracker?
100
Show me all 5 ballet positions
What is 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th?
100
Show me/explain parallel.
What is two straight lines, not touching?
100
Show me a triplet
What is up, up, down?
200
Who is the African American dancer/choreographer who was born in Texas?
Who is Alvin Ailey?
200
Show me a balance.
What is side, back, front?
200
What is the difference between a contraction and flat back?
What is a contraction has a round back and bent knees and a flat back has straight knees.
200
What is improvisation?
What is dancing freely, or dancing without choreography?
300
This famous dance piece created by Alvin Ailey reflected his childhood memories from church.
What is Revelations?
300
What are the 2 differences between a tendu and a degage
What is a degage comes off the floor and is fast. A tendu stays on the floor and is slow.
300
Show me a drop swing.
What is two plies with swinging arms?
300
Show me a lateral T
What is blades, tendu, tilt.
400
This queen helped create the very first ballet.
Who is Queen Catherine de Medici?
400
What does pas de chat mean?
What is step of the cat?
400
Show me a sit roll.
What is tendu back, knee, sit, roll up on knees?
400
Show me a jete.
What is a leap?
500
Alvin Ailey was influenced by 2 modern dancers. One being the first woman he saw perform and the second being his first modern dance teacher.
Who is Katherine Dunham and Lester Horton?
500
Show me a chasse jete.
What is gallop + leap?
500
Show me a second turn.
What is second plie, turn downstage.
500
Show me a port de bras.
What is arms open, down, up and out?