Beg Dance Ballet Quiz

Tendu means

• To Bend

• To Rise

• To Escape

• To Stretch

Glissade means

• To Glisten

• To Escape

• To Glide

• To Rise

Echappe means

• To Glide

• To Escape

• To Rise

• To Chase

Originally only ___ were allowed to dance ballet and they wore _____ costumes

• Men, heavy

• Women, heavy

• Women, free-flowing

• Men, free-flowing

The term "arabesque" can best be described as

• One leg standing with the other leg bent at the knee

• Both legs bent

• Both legs straight, one leg behind

• none of the above

______ ___________ Created the 5 positions of ballet

• Louis XIV

• Pierre Beauchamps

• Marie Camargo

• Bob Fosse

Chaine means

• a series or chain of turns

• an arabesque done in 4th position

• a jump done 4 times

• a single rotation

What is the ONLY position in which your heels stay on the floor in a demi plie and grande plie?

(a)  

Developpe means

(a)  

A pas de chat starts and ends in 5th position, with both legs coming up in turned out passe with toes pointed before landing

• True

• False