Ballet History questions well
answered graded A+ passed
Where did ballet originate from? - correct answer ✔✔ France
Catherine de ‘Medici - correct answer ✔✔ - came from Italy to France
- introduced "court ballet"
court ballet - correct answer ✔✔ - performed mainly to please the audience
- elaborate costumes/sets
- simple floor patterns, footwork, and poses
- could last for hours
Who were the court ballets performed for? - correct answer ✔✔ nobility
Louis XIV - correct answer ✔✔ - "Sun King"
- King of France
- commissioned many ballets and even performed in some
Louis XIV granted permission to several dancing masters to establish - correct answer ✔✔ The
Royal Academy of Dance - in France
What did the Royal Academy of Dance later become - correct answer ✔✔ the Paris Opera - still
exists today
, At the end of the sixteenth century - correct answer ✔✔ - proscenium stage was created
- dancers began to use a "turned-out" position
- set vocabulary of movements was developed
- technique was developed
By the seventeenth century - correct answer ✔✔ ballet was recognized as a viable art form
In the eighteenth century - correct answer ✔✔ there was emphasis on the "meaning" and
"message" the movements depicted, compared to technique
Jean Georges Noverre - correct answer ✔✔ - developed "ballet d'action"
- wrote Letters on Dancing and Ballet [defended ballet as a higher art form]
ballet d'action - correct answer ✔✔ this concept brought the importance of having a plot and
using emotion in dance
The nineteenth century - correct answer ✔✔ Romantic ballet
Romanticism - correct answer ✔✔ - was characterized by a passionate striving to discover
meaning in human events [art forms including music and literature became more humanistic]
Dance followed the path of sharing what elements? [Romanticism] - correct answer ✔✔ love of
nature, emotion, power, violence, and tranquility along with adding a mythical, wondering
touch
Whom did the Romantic ballets feature? - correct answer ✔✔ female dancers
La Sylphide [one of the first Romantic ballets] - correct answer ✔✔ Taglioni
answered graded A+ passed
Where did ballet originate from? - correct answer ✔✔ France
Catherine de ‘Medici - correct answer ✔✔ - came from Italy to France
- introduced "court ballet"
court ballet - correct answer ✔✔ - performed mainly to please the audience
- elaborate costumes/sets
- simple floor patterns, footwork, and poses
- could last for hours
Who were the court ballets performed for? - correct answer ✔✔ nobility
Louis XIV - correct answer ✔✔ - "Sun King"
- King of France
- commissioned many ballets and even performed in some
Louis XIV granted permission to several dancing masters to establish - correct answer ✔✔ The
Royal Academy of Dance - in France
What did the Royal Academy of Dance later become - correct answer ✔✔ the Paris Opera - still
exists today
, At the end of the sixteenth century - correct answer ✔✔ - proscenium stage was created
- dancers began to use a "turned-out" position
- set vocabulary of movements was developed
- technique was developed
By the seventeenth century - correct answer ✔✔ ballet was recognized as a viable art form
In the eighteenth century - correct answer ✔✔ there was emphasis on the "meaning" and
"message" the movements depicted, compared to technique
Jean Georges Noverre - correct answer ✔✔ - developed "ballet d'action"
- wrote Letters on Dancing and Ballet [defended ballet as a higher art form]
ballet d'action - correct answer ✔✔ this concept brought the importance of having a plot and
using emotion in dance
The nineteenth century - correct answer ✔✔ Romantic ballet
Romanticism - correct answer ✔✔ - was characterized by a passionate striving to discover
meaning in human events [art forms including music and literature became more humanistic]
Dance followed the path of sharing what elements? [Romanticism] - correct answer ✔✔ love of
nature, emotion, power, violence, and tranquility along with adding a mythical, wondering
touch
Whom did the Romantic ballets feature? - correct answer ✔✔ female dancers
La Sylphide [one of the first Romantic ballets] - correct answer ✔✔ Taglioni
