Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
ballet, dance, performance art, French terms, tutorial
College
Fine Arts and Communications
Department
Dance
Abstract
Ballet is a technically demanding performance art. About 500 students take ballet classes each semester at Brigham Young University, and one of the most difficult parts of each ballet class is memorizing all the French terms that each step is known by. In order to facilitate this process, the head of the Ballet Division of the Dance Department, Sandra Allen, as well as Theatre Ballet director Jan Dijkwel, asked that I develop a tutorial that would present the terms, their definitions, and multimedia so that students could easily connect terms to movement. This in turn would help students as they perform in class, as well as on their written final. Sandra Allen and Jan Dijkwel agreed to provide the videos and pictures of the movements if I could develop an application for the students to use.
Recommended Citation
Parkinson, Kristy and Dijkwel, Jan
(2013)
"Database Software Development for Ballet,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013:
Iss.
1, Article 2230.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/2230