Test your basic knowledge |

Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Connected movements on the points






2. Like a bell. Refers to grand battements to the front and back sliding through first position.






3. Flying brisa. In this brisa the dancer finishes on one foot after the beat - the other leg crossed either front or back.






4. To rock - or to swing.






5. Sideways. Used to indicate that a step is to be made to the side - either to the right or to the left.






6. To face hips square. Not particularly to the front.






7. Separated or thrown apart. Body position.






8. Waltz step. Done with a graceful swaying body. Like a balanca but feet do not cross.






9. The ability to jump easily and lightly into the air. Springy - usually men.






10. To turn in the air. A complete sing - double - or triple turn in the air; usually landing in 5th position.






11. Interweaving or braiding. A step of beating in which the dancer jumps into the air and rapidly crosses the legs before and behind each other.






12. Section that brings you to the end of a dance - its big and important.






13. Borken/breaking






14. (Movements) in the air

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


15. Dance for four






16. Small jeta - from a demi plia.






17. Backwards - reverse.






18. The working foot slides from the first or fifth position to the second or fourth position without lifting the toe from the ground.






19. A march in which two steps are taken forward on the demi-pointes and then the third step is taken flat with the supporting knee bent in fondu and the other leg raised in front.






20. Foot rises about four inches from the floor with a well-pointed toe - then slides back into the the first or fifth position.






21. Line. The outline of a dancer as she executes certain steps.






22. Term used to describe the ability of a dancer to raise and hold her extended leg en l'air.






23. Change of the feet in the air.






24. Raised






25. To put together - to make a jump from one foot then landing on both feet.






26. This term is used for a fault in which the dancer turns his or her foot in from the ankle - thereby breaking the straight line of the leg.






27. Slow - sustained movement






28. Enrico Cecchetti was a ballet teacher. He had a system of passing the tradition of ballet down to the next generation. The method has a definite program of strict routine and includes a table of principal set daily exercises for each day of the week.






29. To glide. A traveling step executed by gliding the working foot from the fifth position in the required direction - the other foot closing to it.






30. Carriage of the arm. The changing of arm positions.






31. To the second. Applies to legs or arms. Second position.






32. Jumped - jumping. When this name is added to a step - that step is done in the air.






33. Step






34. Chased. A step in which one foot literally chases the other foot out of its position; done in a series.






35. Two






36. Whipped. A term applied to a whipping movement.






37. The crossing of the legs with the body placed at an oblique angle to the audience.






38. A stationary handrail that is used during ballet warm up exercises. The term also refers to the exercises that are performed at the barre - as well as that part of a ballet class that incorporates barre exercises. Much of a ballet dancer's training t






39. Grand dance for two. Has a definite 5 parts.






40. Under. Indicates that the working foot passes behind the supporting foot.






41. Pas de bourra - running. This is a progression on the points or demi-pointes by a series of small - even steps with the feet close together. It may be done in all directions or in a circle.






42. A jump from both feet onto one foot






43. Body.






44. Round of the leg. Circular movement of the leg.






45. Closed sissone. Low elevation and a quick tempo - this sissonne finishes on two feet with the working foot gliding along the floor into the demi-plia in the fifth position.






46. Bent or bending. Bending of the knee or knees






47. Dance for three






48. A






49. This means to pose on one leg whilst extending the other leg to the back.






50. To the front.