Test your Knowledge in Dance

Match the following

• a large kick of the leg off the floor

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• Elongating the spine for safe movement

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• stretching the foot along the floor

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• movement that travels across the floor

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• articulation of the spine

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Answer explanation

Anytime you bend your knees, whether it is in ballet, West African, hip hop or even in a tik tok dance.

Chasse

• to bend
• to chase
• to leap
• to rise

Releve'

• to bend
• to chase
• to leap
• to rise

Name the dance movement here.

• plié in second position

• a big squat

• leaning and bending

A dancer's turn out is....

• Their knees
• Their arm placement
• Their head placement
• The outward rotation of their legs from the thigh

Tendu means ________ in french

• Turnout
• To Flex
• To Stretch the foot along the floor until only the toe is touching

• To point and drag your heel

Releve means 

• To bend
• To turn out
• To rise
• In the shape of a cross

Plie means

• Stretch

• Point

• Disengage

• to bend the knees

What does chassé mean?

• moving backward

• to slide across the floor

• one foot chases the other

____________ is the language of ballet

• English

• Italian

• French

• German