Dance Exam questions and answers
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Italy - correct answer ✔✔ In the 1440s, where did ballet start?
was to impress neighboring countries - correct answer ✔✔ The reason ballet started
Catherine Medicis - correct answer ✔✔ Who married King Henry II in 1553
Catherine Medicis - correct answer ✔✔ - member of ruling family
- moves to france
- marries king of france (king henry II)
- she brings ballet to france
Balthasar - correct answer ✔✔ brought to play (create) music for Catherine Medicis
- ballet
- ancient greek mythology
- historians argue that this is the birth of ballet while others think Italy was the birth of ballet -
correct answer ✔✔ 1581: Ballet Comique de la Reine
- defines Paris as the ballet capital
- starts RAD - correct answer ✔✔ 1600s: King Louie 14th
, Royal Academy of Dance. This becomes Paris opera ballet and offers 1st dance operation -
correct answer ✔✔ RAD
king louie liked the was his shoe buckles looked. they were expensive and he liked to show them
off. - correct answer ✔✔ turnout
Beachamps - correct answer ✔✔ ballet master was inspired by king louie's stance and laid down
5 basic positions of ballet
all principle roles were given to men - correct answer ✔✔ Early 1600s: a man's role
the first female dancer preforms professionally - correct answer ✔✔ Late 1600s: Triomphe de
L'amour
Novrre - correct answer ✔✔ is a french choreographer. he eliminates the heavy costumes and
dresses to express feeling and invents a new form of ballet called ballet d'action
form of ballet that conveys a story through movement - correct answer ✔✔ ballet d'action
known as romantic period. it was an era after the beginning of ballet - correct answer ✔✔
Romantic Ballet starts
romantic period - correct answer ✔✔ - women become focus of ballet
- ment assist the women
- ballets are no longer about Greek mythology
- the common man replaces gods as the hero
point shoe - correct answer ✔✔ made women appear superior and higher
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Italy - correct answer ✔✔ In the 1440s, where did ballet start?
was to impress neighboring countries - correct answer ✔✔ The reason ballet started
Catherine Medicis - correct answer ✔✔ Who married King Henry II in 1553
Catherine Medicis - correct answer ✔✔ - member of ruling family
- moves to france
- marries king of france (king henry II)
- she brings ballet to france
Balthasar - correct answer ✔✔ brought to play (create) music for Catherine Medicis
- ballet
- ancient greek mythology
- historians argue that this is the birth of ballet while others think Italy was the birth of ballet -
correct answer ✔✔ 1581: Ballet Comique de la Reine
- defines Paris as the ballet capital
- starts RAD - correct answer ✔✔ 1600s: King Louie 14th
, Royal Academy of Dance. This becomes Paris opera ballet and offers 1st dance operation -
correct answer ✔✔ RAD
king louie liked the was his shoe buckles looked. they were expensive and he liked to show them
off. - correct answer ✔✔ turnout
Beachamps - correct answer ✔✔ ballet master was inspired by king louie's stance and laid down
5 basic positions of ballet
all principle roles were given to men - correct answer ✔✔ Early 1600s: a man's role
the first female dancer preforms professionally - correct answer ✔✔ Late 1600s: Triomphe de
L'amour
Novrre - correct answer ✔✔ is a french choreographer. he eliminates the heavy costumes and
dresses to express feeling and invents a new form of ballet called ballet d'action
form of ballet that conveys a story through movement - correct answer ✔✔ ballet d'action
known as romantic period. it was an era after the beginning of ballet - correct answer ✔✔
Romantic Ballet starts
romantic period - correct answer ✔✔ - women become focus of ballet
- ment assist the women
- ballets are no longer about Greek mythology
- the common man replaces gods as the hero
point shoe - correct answer ✔✔ made women appear superior and higher
