Final Exam

Question 1

Define Plié

Answer 1

To bend at the hips knees and ankles

Question 2

Define Relevé

Answer 2

To raise the heel off the foot of the floor balance on the ball of the foot

Question 3

Define tendú

Answer 3

To stretch or point the foot

Question 4

Define degage

Answer 4

To disengage or strike

Question 5

Define passé

Answer 5

To draw the foot of the standing leg while bending the knee of the working leg

Question 6

Define sauté

Answer 6

Small jumps

Question 7

Grand battement

Answer 7

Big kick

Question 8

Pirouette

Answer 8

To turn on 1 foot

Question 9

Arabesque

Answer 9

A grand battement behind

Question 10

Glissade

Answer 10

To glide

Question 11

Bourrée

Answer 11

Done in fifth position relevé

A million tiny steps

Question 12

Pas de bourrée

Answer 12

Common transition step

Back, side, close in 5th

Question 13

Jeté

Answer 13

A leap from 1 foot to the other

Question 14

Chainés

Answer 14

Half turns

Question 15

Coupé

Answer 15

The position of the foot at the ankle

Question 16

Tour la basque

Answer 16

Step cross in relevé then turn

Question 17

Pas de basque en terre

Answer 17

2nd, 4th, 5th on the floor

Question 18

Waltz step

Answer 18

Done in 3/4 time, brush step step

Question 19

Pique

Answer 19

Stepping Onto a straight leg in relevé

Question 20

What is pas de quatre

Answer 20

4 greatest ballerinas named
Maria
Lucile
Fanny
Carlotta

Question 21

Who choreographed pas de quatre?

Answer 21

Jules Perrot

Question 22

Who choreographed and who composed the rite of spring?

Answer 22

Choreography by najinski

Composed by Stravinsky

Question 23

What is the rite of spring?

Answer 23

Caused a near riot bc of the music and non traditional dance style

Question 24

Who choreographed the four temperaments

Answer 24

George Balanchine

Question 25

What is the four temperaments

Answer 25

Humors of a person Melancholic Sanguinic Phlegmatic Choleric

Question 26

Who choreographed the concert

Answer 26

Jerome Robbins

Question 27

What is the concert

Answer 27

Comic ballet the pokes fun at how dancers goof up

Question 28

Who choreographed la bayader

Answer 28

Petipa

Question 29

What does la bayader mean?

Answer 29

The temple dancer

Question 30

Who are the main characters or la bayader

Answer 30

Nikiya and solor

Question 31

What is the story of la bayader

Answer 31

Nikiya is the high Brahmins temple dancer. Nikiya and solor fall in love. The high Brahmin doesn't like it and hires someone to kill solor. Nikiya is killed instead and solor is forced to marry the high Brahmins daughter. The gods get mad and kill everyone in the temple. This way Nikiya and solor can be together on the after life.

Question 32

Step Ball Change

Answer 32

Traveling step Transfer weight from ball of one foot to other foot

Question 33

Jump Sissoné

Answer 33

Jump from 2 foot, to a split jump with the back leg higher than the front, landing on 1 foot

Question 34

The Charlestom

Answer 34

Step kick front | Step kick back

Question 35

Sugar Step

Answer 35

Twist step

Question 36

What is vaudeville

Answer 36

Variety shows

Question 37

What is minister show

Answer 37

Traveling show

Question 38

What did African dance give us

Answer 38

Syncopation Rhythm

Question 39

How did we get Irish dance

Answer 39

Slippery boat docks

Question 40

How did we get English dance

Answer 40

Factory workers go to pubs after work and walk on cobble stone

Question 41

What were speakeasies

Answer 41

Secret clubs used during prohibition

Question 42

Who choreographed the firebird?

Answer 42

Michel Fokine

Question 43

What are the main characters in the firebird?

Answer 43

Prince Ivan Firebird Kostchei

Question 44

What is the story of the firebird

Answer 44

Your correct

Question 45

What is the story of swan lake

Answer 45

Your correct

Question 46

Who is the coreographer of swan lake

Answer 46

Marcus Petipa (white swan and party scene) Lev Ivanon (black swan)

Question 47

Who are the main characters in swan lake?

Answer 47

Odette Odlie Prince Sourer