{ "contentVersion": "2026.08.14+1", "quiz": [ { "id": "quiz.sickle-shape", "prompt": "Which of these makes a foot look “sickled”?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "The ankle rolls inward and the toes drift back" }, { "id": "b", "text": "The toes reach long past the ankle" }, { "id": "c", "text": "The heel presses forward" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "Sickling is the ankle collapsing in, so the line snaps at the ankle. Heel forward, little toe leading — that is the fix.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.tendu"], "correctionIds": ["corr.tendu.sickling"], "faultIds": ["fault.sickling"] }, "minRung": 4, "difficulty": 1, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.where-point-begins", "prompt": "In a tendu, where does the point actually begin?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "At the toes" }, { "id": "b", "text": "At the ball of the foot and ankle" }, { "id": "c", "text": "At the knee" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "Press through the ball of the foot and lengthen the ankle first. The toes finish the line, they never start it.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.tendu"], "correctionIds": ["corr.tendu.toe-curl"], "faultIds": ["fault.toe-curl"] }, "minRung": 4, "difficulty": 1, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.why-heel-drops", "prompt": "Why train eccentric heel drops before pointe?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "To build a bigger calf" }, { "id": "b", "text": "To control the lowering out of a relevé" }, { "id": "c", "text": "To increase turnout" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "Pointe asks for strength coming down as much as going up. Controlled lowering is what protects the ankle.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.releve", "tech.pointe-rise"], "correctionIds": ["corr.releve.dropping"], "faultIds": ["fault.loss-of-control"], "capabilityIds": ["cap.releve-control"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.developpe-meaning", "prompt": "“Développé” means…", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "to unfold" }, { "id": "b", "text": "to beat" }, { "id": "c", "text": "to glide" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "To unfold — which is the whole correction. It is an unfolding through retiré, not a lift.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.developpe-devant"], "correctionIds": ["corr.developpe-devant.jerky-unfold"], "faultIds": ["fault.loss-of-control"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 1, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.plie-depth", "prompt": "How deep should a demi-plié go?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "As far down as you can get, heels wherever they end up" }, { "id": "b", "text": "As far as you can go with both heels still on the floor" }, { "id": "c", "text": "Halfway, always, in every position" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "The moment a heel lifts, the plié has stopped being something you can push off. The depth where the heels hold is your real demi-plié — and it grows.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.plie"], "correctionIds": ["corr.plie.heel-lift"], "faultIds": ["fault.heel-lift"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 1, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.fondu-timing", "prompt": "In a battement fondu, when does the supporting leg finish straightening?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "Before the working leg gets there, to steady you" }, { "id": "b", "text": "At the same moment the working leg arrives" }, { "id": "c", "text": "After the working leg has already arrived" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "Fondu means melting, and both legs melt and recover together. If the standing leg finishes first, the extension is left with nothing underneath it.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.battement-fondu"], "correctionIds": ["corr.battement-fondu.out-of-time"], "faultIds": ["fault.loss-of-control"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.frappe-accent", "prompt": "Which way does the accent go in a battement frappé?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "Outward — sharp out, quiet return" }, { "id": "b", "text": "Inward — soft out, sharp return" }, { "id": "c", "text": "Neither, it is even both ways" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "Strike out to a fully stretched foot and let the return be the quiet half. A frappé accented inward reads as a nervous tendu.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.battement-frappe"], "correctionIds": ["corr.battement-frappe.soft-accent"], "faultIds": ["fault.tone-mismatch"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.rond-de-jambe-hips", "prompt": "Your rond de jambe circle is big, but your hips swing with it. What should you change?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "Keep the circle and let the hips move — the size matters more" }, { "id": "b", "text": "Make the circle smaller until the hips can stay still" }, { "id": "c", "text": "Speed it up so the hips have no time to move" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "The circle is worth nothing if the hips pay for it. Take the size back until both hipbones can face the same wall the whole way round, then grow it again.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.rond-de-jambe-a-terre"], "correctionIds": ["corr.rond-de-jambe-a-terre.hip-swing"], "faultIds": ["fault.hip-hike"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.retire-knee", "prompt": "In retiré, where should the knee point?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "Out to the side wall" }, { "id": "b", "text": "Forward, wherever it feels comfortable" }, { "id": "c", "text": "Slightly across the standing leg" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "The knee stays out to the side, held from the top of the thigh. Once it comes forward the hip has closed, and every turn out of that shape will travel.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.retire-passe"], "correctionIds": ["corr.retire-passe.knee-forward"], "faultIds": ["fault.turnout-loss"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 1, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.port-de-bras-support", "prompt": "Where does the support for a second-position arm come from?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "From lifting the shoulder" }, { "id": "b", "text": "From underneath the arm, with the elbow held a little above the wrist" }, { "id": "c", "text": "From straightening the elbow completely" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "One soft curve from the shoulder blade to the fingertips, supported from below. A lifted shoulder solves it for one count and ruins the line for the rest.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.port-de-bras"], "correctionIds": ["corr.port-de-bras.dropped-elbow"], "faultIds": ["fault.dropped-elbow"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 1, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.epaulement-when", "prompt": "When is épaulement decided?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "Before the step starts, when the feet are set to the corner" }, { "id": "b", "text": "Halfway through, once you know where you are going" }, { "id": "c", "text": "At the end, as a finishing touch" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "Feet to the corner first, then the shoulders and head follow the front foot. Épaulement added while a step is happening always arrives late.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.epaulement"], "correctionIds": ["corr.epaulement.square-on"], "faultIds": ["fault.flat-front"] }, "minRung": 6, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.balance-rhythm", "prompt": "What does a balancé sound like in your feet?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "Three equal steps" }, { "id": "b", "text": "Down, up, up — one deep, two light" }, { "id": "c", "text": "Up, down, down — one light, two deep" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "The first step is long and deep, the next two are light and quick. Three even steps is a walk in three-four time, not a balancé.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.balance"], "correctionIds": ["corr.balance.even-three"], "faultIds": ["fault.rushing-tempo"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 1, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.glissade-is-a-jump", "prompt": "Is there a moment in a glissade when both feet are off the floor?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "Yes — it is a jump, however small" }, { "id": "b", "text": "No, one foot always stays down" }, { "id": "c", "text": "Only when it is done travelling backwards" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "The foot slides out, the body travels, and there is a moment in the air. Lose that moment and there is no push left for the step that follows.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.glissade"], "correctionIds": ["corr.glissade.never-leaves"], "faultIds": ["fault.flat-landing"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.changement-change-point", "prompt": "Where in a changement do the feet change?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "At the top of the jump, legs straight" }, { "id": "b", "text": "On the way down, just before landing" }, { "id": "c", "text": "As the heels reach the floor" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "The change belongs at the top, with both legs stretched and both feet pointed. If you can see it happen on the way down, the jump ran out first.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.changement"], "correctionIds": ["corr.changement.late-change"], "faultIds": ["fault.late-beat"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 1, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.sissonne-plie", "prompt": "A sissonne lands on one leg. What does that mean for the plié?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "It can be shallower — there is less weight on each side" }, { "id": "b", "text": "It has to be deeper — one leg absorbs the whole landing" }, { "id": "c", "text": "It makes no difference to the plié" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "One leg is taking everything two legs usually share, so the plié goes deeper, not shallower. Straight-legged landings are what your knees complain about later.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.sissonne"], "correctionIds": ["corr.sissonne.shallow-landing"], "faultIds": ["fault.stiff-landing"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.pose-turn-spot", "prompt": "Travelling posé turns down a diagonal — where do you spot?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "The mirror at the front" }, { "id": "b", "text": "The corner you are travelling towards" }, { "id": "c", "text": "A different point on each turn" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "Spot where you are going, not where you are. The head snaps back to that corner on every turn, and the line stays straight because of it.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.pose-turn"], "correctionIds": ["corr.pose-turn.wrong-spot"], "faultIds": ["fault.lost-spot"] }, "minRung": 6, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.petit-battement-hinge", "prompt": "In petit battement, what stays still?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "The knee and thigh — only the lower leg moves" }, { "id": "b", "text": "The lower leg — the thigh does the beating" }, { "id": "c", "text": "Nothing, the whole leg beats together" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "The knee is the hinge and it holds; the lower leg is the door and it swings. A thigh that wags is the step doing itself the easy way.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.petit-battement"], "correctionIds": ["corr.petit-battement.wagging-thigh"], "faultIds": ["fault.sympathy-movement"] }, "minRung": 6, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.cambre-breath", "prompt": "Why does breathing matter in a cambré?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "It does not — hold your breath for stability" }, { "id": "b", "text": "A held breath locks the ribs, so the spine hinges from one place" }, { "id": "c", "text": "Breathing in on the way over gives you more range" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "Breathe out going over and in coming up. Locked ribs turn a curve that should spread through the whole spine into a single hinge at the low back.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.cambre"], "correctionIds": ["corr.cambre.held-breath"], "faultIds": ["fault.held-breath"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.jazz-passe-parallel", "prompt": "What is different about the passé in a jazz pirouette?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "It is parallel — the knee faces straight forward" }, { "id": "b", "text": "It is turned out further than in ballet" }, { "id": "c", "text": "The foot sits behind the knee instead of beside it" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "Knee front, foot at the side of the supporting knee. A turned-out passé here reads as ballet borrowed into a jazz combination.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.jazz-pirouette"], "correctionIds": ["corr.jazz-pirouette.turned-out-passe"], "faultIds": ["fault.tone-mismatch"] }, "minRung": 6, "difficulty": 1, "styleIds": ["style.jazz"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.degage-leaves-floor", "prompt": "What should make the foot leave the floor in a dégagé?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "The thigh lifting the whole leg" }, { "id": "b", "text": "The end of a full brush through tendu" }, { "id": "c", "text": "A small hop on the supporting foot" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "Dégagé is a tendu that keeps going. Brush the whole foot along the floor and let the height arrive at the end of it — lifting from the thigh is slower, and everything built on dégagé needs the speed.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.degage"], "correctionIds": ["corr.degage.lifting-not-brushing"], "faultIds": ["fault.borrowed-momentum"] }, "minRung": 4, "difficulty": 1, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.degage-same-height", "prompt": "Your dégagés get higher with every repetition. What is usually happening?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "The hip has started lifting to buy the height" }, { "id": "b", "text": "The ankle is getting stronger as you go" }, { "id": "c", "text": "The supporting knee is softening" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "Height that creeps is bought by the hip, and the foot stops passing through the floor on the way back. Pick the height at the start and hold it for all eight.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.degage"], "correctionIds": ["corr.degage.creeping-height"], "faultIds": ["fault.hip-hike"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.chaines-first-position", "prompt": "In classical chaînés, why does a wide first position take you off the line?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "It makes you dizzy faster" }, { "id": "b", "text": "Each step becomes a small arc instead of a half turn on the spot" }, { "id": "c", "text": "It slows the music down" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "With daylight between the ankles the feet swing round you rather than staying underneath you, so every turn steers you a little sideways. Spotting harder cannot fix a wide first.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.chaines-ballet"], "correctionIds": ["corr.chaines-ballet.wide-first"], "faultIds": ["fault.loose-close"] }, "minRung": 6, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.chaines-head-timing", "prompt": "How many times does the head spot in one full chaîné turn?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "Once — at the front" }, { "id": "b", "text": "Twice — the body passes the spot on each half turn" }, { "id": "c", "text": "It does not spot; the eyes stay soft" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "Chaînés are half turns, so the head gets two chances per revolution to leave last and arrive first. Take both and the room stops smearing.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.chaines-ballet"], "correctionIds": ["corr.chaines-ballet.head-rides-along"], "faultIds": ["fault.lost-spot"] }, "minRung": 6, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.arabesque-what-holds-it", "prompt": "In an arabesque, what is actually holding the leg up?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "The lower back" }, { "id": "b", "text": "The leg you are standing on" }, { "id": "c", "text": "The front arm" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "Lift up out of the standing hip and the supporting side carries the whole shape. When that side sinks, the lower back takes the job over — and the line breaks at exactly the point everyone is looking at.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.arabesque"], "correctionIds": ["corr.arabesque.supporting-collapse"], "faultIds": ["fault.standing-side-collapse"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.assemble-landing-fifth", "prompt": "Why does the fifth position you land an assemblé in matter so much?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "It is the position the next jump has to leave from" }, { "id": "b", "text": "It is the only part the audience can see" }, { "id": "c", "text": "It makes the landing quieter" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "A landing that arrives approximately becomes the take-off for whatever comes next, so a loose fifth quietly lowers the standard of every step after it.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.assemble"], "correctionIds": ["corr.assemble.loose-fifth"], "faultIds": ["fault.loose-close"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.attitude-knee-or-foot", "prompt": "In attitude derrière, which stays higher — the knee or the foot?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "The knee" }, { "id": "b", "text": "The foot" }, { "id": "c", "text": "They should be level" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "Knee above the foot and turned out, and the whole leg reads as a shape you chose. Let the knee drop below the foot and the leg looks like an accident behind you.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.attitude-derriere"], "correctionIds": ["corr.attitude-derriere.dropped-knee"], "faultIds": ["fault.turnout-loss"] }, "minRung": 6, "difficulty": 1, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.ballonne-when-extended", "prompt": "Where in a ballonné is the leg fully extended?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "At the top of the jump" }, { "id": "b", "text": "As you land" }, { "id": "c", "text": "Just after you land" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "Out in the air, and folded back to cou-de-pied by the time you land. Extend on the floor and the step has lost the bounce it is named for.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.ballonne"], "correctionIds": ["corr.ballonne.late-extension"], "faultIds": ["fault.late-beat"] }, "minRung": 7, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.jazz-chaines-job", "prompt": "In a jazz number, what are chaînés usually doing?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "Showing how many turns you can manage" }, { "id": "b", "text": "Getting you across the floor on a count" }, { "id": "c", "text": "Filling time between two shapes" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "They are transport. Turns that shrink down the line leave you short of your mark with counts still to fill — decide the distance first, then take equal steps the whole way.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.chaines"], "correctionIds": ["corr.chaines.shrinking-travel"], "faultIds": ["fault.rushing-tempo"] }, "minRung": 6, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.jazz"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.chasse-pivot-drift", "prompt": "You keep drifting off your line in a chassé pivot turn. What usually causes it?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "Turning before the chassé has finished travelling" }, { "id": "b", "text": "Travelling too far in the chassé" }, { "id": "c", "text": "Spotting the front wall" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "Begin turning while you are still travelling and the path bends into a curve. Commit the chassé first, then turn — late is better than early here.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.chasse-pivot"], "correctionIds": ["corr.chasse-pivot.lost-direction"], "faultIds": ["fault.travel-drift"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.musical-theatre"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.echappe-releve-one-sound", "prompt": "Facing the barre with your eyes shut, how should an échappé relevé sound?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "One sound" }, { "id": "b", "text": "Two sounds, close together" }, { "id": "c", "text": "No sound at all" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "Both feet leave and land on the same beat with the weight split evenly. Two sounds means one foot arrived first, and your ears catch that long before your eyes do.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.echappe-releve"], "correctionIds": ["corr.echappe-releve.one-at-a-time"], "faultIds": ["fault.uneven-transfer"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 1, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.echappe-saute-narrow-second", "prompt": "Your échappé sauté keeps landing in a narrow second. What is usually behind it?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "The plié ran out before the jump left" }, { "id": "b", "text": "Your second position is too turned out" }, { "id": "c", "text": "You are spotting the wrong wall" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "A small second is nearly always a plié that finished early — there was not enough push to open to a second you could actually stand in.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.echappe-saute"], "correctionIds": ["corr.echappe-saute.narrow-second"], "faultIds": ["fault.loose-close"] }, "minRung": 4, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.fan-kick-where-technique-is", "prompt": "Where is the technique in a fan kick?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "In the working leg — the higher the better" }, { "id": "b", "text": "In the standing side, which stays long and quiet" }, { "id": "c", "text": "In the arms" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "The shape belongs to the leg that travels; the technique belongs to the one you are standing on. Press the standing foot down and grow — and take the kick lower if that is what it costs.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.fan-kick"], "correctionIds": ["corr.fan-kick.standing-knee"], "faultIds": ["fault.standing-side-collapse"] }, "minRung": 6, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.jazz"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.fosse-isolation-tell", "prompt": "What tells you a Fosse isolation is not working?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "The moving part is going too fast" }, { "id": "b", "text": "Something else — the head, the ribs — moves with it" }, { "id": "c", "text": "The movement is too small" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "Anchor the ribs and move one joint only. If the head bobs along with it, the movement has been borrowed from somewhere it does not belong.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.fosse-isolations"], "correctionIds": ["corr.fosse-isolations.whole-body"], "faultIds": ["fault.diffuse-isolation"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 1, "styleIds": ["style.musical-theatre"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.grand-battement-which-half", "prompt": "Which half of a grand battement builds next month’s height?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "The throw upward" }, { "id": "b", "text": "The controlled way down" }, { "id": "c", "text": "Neither — height is only flexibility" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "Come down at half the speed you went up, brushing through tendu, and place the foot rather than letting it land. A leg that drops has trained nothing on the way back.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.grand-battement"], "correctionIds": ["corr.grand-battement.dropping"], "faultIds": ["fault.loss-of-control"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.jazz-square-on-the-floor", "prompt": "What should a jazz square look like on the floor?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "Four corners, each one deliberately placed" }, { "id": "b", "text": "A tight shuffle on one spot" }, { "id": "c", "text": "A small circle" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "Cross deliberately and put each foot on its own corner. When it starts turning into a shuffle, take it to half time and rebuild the shape.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.jazz-square"], "correctionIds": ["corr.jazz-square.collapse"], "faultIds": ["fault.shape-collapse"] }, "minRung": 4, "difficulty": 1, "styleIds": ["style.jazz"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.jete-landing-decided", "prompt": "When is the landing shape of a jeté ordinaire decided?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "While you are still in the air" }, { "id": "b", "text": "As the foot touches the floor" }, { "id": "c", "text": "Once you have landed and can adjust it" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "The wrapped foot and the knee held out to the side are set before you land. That shape is what the eye reads, and it cannot be tidied up afterwards.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.jete-ordinaire"], "correctionIds": ["corr.jete-ordinaire.turned-in-finish"], "faultIds": ["fault.turnout-loss"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.kick-line-how-high", "prompt": "In a line of eight, how high should you kick?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "As high as you can" }, { "id": "b", "text": "To match the person beside you" }, { "id": "c", "text": "A little higher than everyone else" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "Uniform beats impressive in a line. The lowest kick sets the level, and one leg above the rest reads as a mistake rather than a talent.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.kick-line"], "correctionIds": ["corr.kick-line.max-height"], "faultIds": ["fault.unison-break"] }, "minRung": 4, "difficulty": 1, "styleIds": ["style.musical-theatre"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.layout-what-it-really-is", "prompt": "A layout looks like a flexibility move. What is it really?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "A strength move — the standing leg and the core hold the whole shape" }, { "id": "b", "text": "A balance move, like an arabesque" }, { "id": "c", "text": "A turning move" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "It is a strength move wearing a flexibility move’s clothes. Build the strength over weeks and the shape follows; chase the shape first and the back carries a load the muscles were meant to. This is one to take to your teacher before you take it anywhere else.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.layout"], "correctionIds": ["corr.layout.cold-range"], "faultIds": ["fault.rushed-preparation"] }, "minRung": 7, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.jazz"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.pas-de-basque-path", "prompt": "What makes a pas de basque a pas de basque and not a step to the side?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "The semicircle the leading foot draws before any weight goes on it" }, { "id": "b", "text": "The speed it is taken at" }, { "id": "c", "text": "The arms" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "The path along the floor is the step. Let the leading foot travel out through second and draw a real half circle before the weight arrives on it.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.pas-de-basque"], "correctionIds": ["corr.pas-de-basque.no-circle"], "faultIds": ["fault.shape-collapse"] }, "minRung": 6, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.pique-first-step", "prompt": "How should the first step of a pas de bourrée piqué arrive?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "Flat, for stability" }, { "id": "b", "text": "On the ball of the foot with the heel lifted" }, { "id": "c", "text": "Heel first, then rolling through" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "Piqué means pricked. Arrive on the ball of the foot with the heel off the floor and then transfer — a flat foot turns the whole step into a walk.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.pas-de-bourree-pique"], "correctionIds": ["corr.pas-de-bourree-pique.flat-first-step"], "faultIds": ["fault.flat-landing"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 1, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.pas-de-chat-air-moment", "prompt": "What makes a pas de chat a jump rather than a step sideways?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "Both knees reaching the same height" }, { "id": "b", "text": "A real moment with both feet off the floor" }, { "id": "c", "text": "The arms lifting with it" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "Pick up the first knee, then the second, so for a moment neither foot is anywhere near the floor. If the back foot never leaves, it is a step with good intentions.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.pas-de-chat"], "correctionIds": ["corr.pas-de-chat.second-foot-stays"], "faultIds": ["fault.late-beat"] }, "minRung": 6, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.en-dedans-power", "prompt": "Where does the power for a pirouette en dedans come from?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "Whipping the arms round" }, { "id": "b", "text": "The step out and the plié" }, { "id": "c", "text": "The head snapping first" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "The step and the plié drive it; the arms simply close to first and stay there. Arms thrown open start the turn and then stop it again a moment later.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.pirouette-en-dedans"], "correctionIds": ["corr.pirouette-en-dedans.arm-whip"], "faultIds": ["fault.borrowed-momentum"] }, "minRung": 7, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.en-dehors-travelling", "prompt": "Your pirouette travels across the floor instead of turning on the spot. What is the usual cause?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "The supporting hip sat down before the turn" }, { "id": "b", "text": "You spotted too hard" }, { "id": "c", "text": "The retiré was too high" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "Lift out of the standing hip before you turn, not during it. A hip that sits takes the whole turn off its own axis, and no amount of spotting brings it back.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.pirouette-en-dehors"], "correctionIds": ["corr.pirouette-en-dehors.hip-drop"], "faultIds": ["fault.hip-hike"] }, "minRung": 6, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.rdj-en-lair-who-draws", "prompt": "In rond de jambe en l’air, which part of the leg draws the oval?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "The whole leg, from the hip" }, { "id": "b", "text": "The lower leg only, with the thigh held still" }, { "id": "c", "text": "The foot, with the knee swinging behind it" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "The thigh holds a shelf and refuses to move; the oval belongs to the lower leg alone. Rest a hand under the thigh at the barre and you will feel it drop long before you see it.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.rond-de-jambe-en-lair"], "correctionIds": ["corr.rond-de-jambe-en-lair.moving-thigh"], "faultIds": ["fault.sympathy-movement"] }, "minRung": 6, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.soutenu-why-it-travels", "prompt": "Why does a soutenu turn travel when it should stay on the spot?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "Daylight has opened between the ankles" }, { "id": "b", "text": "The plié was too deep" }, { "id": "c", "text": "The head spotted too early" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "Cross into a tight fifth before you begin and keep both legs pressed together the whole way round. Any gap between the ankles turns straight into travel.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.soutenu-en-tournant"], "correctionIds": ["corr.soutenu-en-tournant.open-legs"], "faultIds": ["fault.loose-close"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.step-ball-change-beat", "prompt": "In a step ball change, what lands on the beat?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "The ball" }, { "id": "b", "text": "The change" }, { "id": "c", "text": "The step before it" } ], "answerOptionId": "b", "explanation": "The ball comes just before the beat and the change lands on it. Count it out loud — and-a-one — until your feet agree with your voice.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.step-ball-change"], "correctionIds": ["corr.step-ball-change.rushing"], "faultIds": ["fault.rushing-tempo"] }, "minRung": 4, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.musical-theatre"], "status": "published" }, { "id": "quiz.temps-lie-what-moves-you", "prompt": "In a temps lié, what actually moves you from one leg to the other?", "options": [ { "id": "a", "text": "The plié" }, { "id": "b", "text": "A push from the arms" }, { "id": "c", "text": "Leaning until you fall onto the new leg" } ], "answerOptionId": "a", "explanation": "The plié is what carries you across, so take it fully and let it push you onto the new leg. Skip it and you are left stepping — which is the moment the join becomes visible.", "targets": { "techniqueIds": ["tech.temps-lie"], "correctionIds": ["corr.temps-lie.no-plie"], "faultIds": ["fault.rushed-preparation"] }, "minRung": 5, "difficulty": 2, "styleIds": ["style.ballet"], "status": "published" } ], "part": "quiz" }