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Ballet cautions
Dance elements
Ballet Basics
movement patterns
Grab bag
100
The joint where outward rotation begins.
What is the hip or illiofemoral joint
100
What are the five dance elements categories
What is Time, Space and Energy, Body and Relationships
100
the language used in Ballet vocabulary
What is French
100
What is the first movement pattern that babies use when they are born
What is breath
100
List three cautions for stride/straddle stretch
What is sitting bones on the floor, pelvis neutral, knees and feet rotated back and out
200
Five cautions that are essential to all ballet barre exercises
What is knees over toes, engaged core, neutral pelvis, lengthened spine, level chin, arches lifted, lengthened toes
200
List six elements of Space
What is level, pathways, direction, focus, size, distance, shape
200
The individual who established the first ballet school?
Who is King Louis the 14th
200
What are the two fundamental movements patterns used in pitching a baseball
What is body side and cross lateral
200
list the three benefits of stretching
What is increased flexibility, reduced soreness, decreased injury
300
Which five cautions do tendu, degage and grande battement devant have in common?
What is a lifted/straight knee, toe aligns with nose, hips stay level, rotation starts from the hip, heel leads out and little toe leads back, articulate through the foot
300
The music term that represents adding and taking away beats
What is syncopation
300
What bony protrusion rotates down, back and out of the way to increase range of motion in outward rotation
What is the greater trochanter
300
performing a traditional crunch would use which fundamental movement pattern?
What is head tail
300
List five reasons why dancers train to increase and strengthen articulation of the feet
What is quieter landings, increased elevation, prevents injury, aesthetics, motor memory
400
Which grande plie position requires the heels to stay on the floor?
What is a grande plie second position
400
list five movement qualities
What is sustained, percussive, swing, collapse, vibratory
400
The ballet genre that uses inward rotation and modern dance elements
What is Contemporary Ballet
400
a bunny uses which fundamental movement pattern
What is upper lower
400
What is shorthand for labanotation
What is motif writing.
500
What two things does a dancer need to do to get height in leaps and jumps.
What is a deep plie and articulation through the foot
500
These terms relate to which category of dance elements: over/under, around/through, together/apart, gathered/scattered,
What is relationships
500
the ballet choreographer who favored tall, thin, long limbed dancers
Who is George Balanchine
500
The individual who developed the fundamental movement pattern work
Who is Irmgard Bartenief
500
List three elements that contribute to a proper grande jete
What is outward rotation/range of motion, flexibility, coordination/timing and strength