Question | Answer |
Ballet 1st | thighs together feet facing out |
Ballet 2nd | feet shoulder with apart facing out |
Arms in 2nd Position | arms out slightly bent hands facing down and in |
Angola | 16th century, used by slaves to make look like work, traditional |
Tendue | the foot draws out and comes to a point |
Pontiera | bend knee to chest then kick then bring it back in |
Flatback | hands by side, long neck, back is flat |
Side Esquiva | Esquiva facing side |
Flex (Foot) | toes pointing up |
Arms in Fifth Position | Arms like a ballerina |
Coccyx Balance | |
Bill T. Jones | 1952, influenced Martha Graham, director and choreographer |
Upward Dog | toes tucked under hips on ground stretching back |
Downward Dog | hips in air |
D-Man in the Waters | Dream about people dying, living, or saving
who you should help in life |
Isadora Duncan | 1877-1920s, mother of modern dance, improve, rejected classic ballet |
Martha Graham | pioneer of modern dance, free |
Spinal Cord | 33 bones |
Cervical Spine | 7 bones |
Thoracic Spine | 12 bones |
Lumbar Spine | 5 bones |
Sacral Spine | 5 bones |
Capoeira Regional | was stile of dance after ban in 1930s |
Capoeira Angola | orginal dance by slaves in afro-Brazil were not aloud to dance |
Mestre Bimba or Manuel dos Reis Machado | created Capoeira Regional and helped end ban |
Mestre Pastinha or Vincente Ferreira Pastinha | founded first Capoeira Angola school |
Coccygeal Spine | 4 bones |
Capoeira | Afro-Brazilian art form that ritualizes movement, 16th century |
Jole | flip cartwheel |
Jinga | warm up leg side to side |
Balonce | hands up bent at elbows and bending body |
Esquiva | hands in front of face and deep plie |
Demi Plie | half way bent plie |
Grande Plie | deep plie |