Who doesn’t love a fun ballet quiz on a Friday? 🙂
7 days in each week, 7 levels of Graded Technique Ballet classes at The Pointe… 7 questions on this fun ballet quiz! Take a look through the questions and see how many your dancer can answer correctly! Extra credit for following up on any questions that didn’t seem familiar with some Google research!
1. Who composed the Nutcracker?
2. The basic position in which one leg is extended straight behind the body at a right angle is called?
3. What language are most ballet terms in?
4. What ballet term means ‘to bend’?
5. What does the word tendu mean?
6. Which actress trained in ballet before going on the star in movies such as Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Roman Holiday?
7. How many basic positions are there in ballet?
Answers are below….
- Tchaikovsky
- Arabesque
- French
- Plié
- To stretch (bonus points for showing a tendu!)
- Audrey Hepburn
- Five (bonus points for showing the positions!)
How did you do?