What Italian class promoted ballet the most?
Dukes
Peasants
Urban petite bourgeoisie
Rural petite bourgeoisie
Who was Marius Petipa?
A famous ballet dancer, known for opening a ballet school in New York
A famous ballet dancer, known for joining the Russian Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg and making St. Petersburg the capital of ballet around the world
A famous choreographer, known for bringing ballet to Italy in the early 1400s
A famous choreographer, known for making Paris the ballet centre of the world during the early classical period
What country influenced American ballet the most?
France
Italy
Russia
Spain
What is Mikhail Mordkin known for?
Starting the first American ballet school
Staring in the first production of Swan Lake in Russia
Making St. Petersburg the world's hub for ballet
Starting the first Russian ballet school
What do choregraphers NOT do in terms of production?
Choose the costumes
Choose the music
Choose the dancers based on auditions
Choreographers do not do any of these things
Choose dancers based on a voting system
What ballet has characters such as Herr Drosselmeyer, pages, and Mother Ginger?
Swan Lake
The Nutcracker
Beauty and the Beast
Cinderella
In the section Physics and Dance: A brief exploration how is dance and physics linked?
Dance and physics are linked through music and motion
Dance and physics are linked through biological structures
Dance and physics are linked through posture and math
Dance and physics are linked through human mechanics
In the Motion section, it goes over how different actions can be performed with only the lower body
