Ballet Vocabulary
To pass
What is passe?
Country ballet originated in
What is Italy?
Traditional ballet clothes
What is a black leotard and pink tights?
Number of basic ballet positions
What is 5?
En dehor and en dedan
What is outside and inside?
to melt
What is fondu?
Language of ballet
What is French?
Ballet dancers start here in class
What is the barre?
Number of dancers needed in a pas a deux
What is 2?
Devant and Derriere
What is the front and back?
In a cross
What is en croix?
the instrument that traditionally accompanies a ballet class
What is a piano?
3 types of shoes worn in ballet class
What is ballet shoes, demi pointe shoes and pointe shoes?
The Ballet that features the role of Clara
What is the Nutcracker?
Petite and Grand
What is small and big?
circle of the leg
What is rondejambe?
made the position B+
Who is George Balanchine?
4 types of exercises done after barre in ballet
Petite Allegro, Pirouettes, Adagio and Grand Allegro
True or False - The hard box of a pointe shoe is made of wood.
What is false? They are made with packed fabric, burlap and cardboard.
On the floor and in the air
What is a terre and en lair?
To strike
What is frappe?
True or False -
Men were the only ones that originally danced ballet.
What is true?
Ballet class traditionally ends with this
What is reverence?
What is "break a leg"?
Over under and sustain
Susu and Soutneu