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The Importance of Turnout in Ballet

The Importance of Turnout in Ballet Quiz

This quiz will be worth 40% of your final grade. It will test what you should have learned from your research and experience while stretching your turnout daily.

Question #1

How many minutes should you stretch a day?

a) 5 minutes

b) 30 minutes

c) 20 minutes

d) 15 minutes

e) You should stretch every other day

Question #2

Which of the following statements is true?

a) Perfect turnout is when a person, standing with equal weight on both feet, points their toes away from their body with their heals together in a 180 degree angle.

b) Turnout comes from your knees

c) Turnout comes from your feet

d) Many people have natural perfect turnout

e) Stretching has no affect on your turnout ability

Question #3

Which of the following is not a correct technique used to turnout?

a) Using the piriformis muscle, located deep within the gluteus maximus, and not clenching the buttock.

b) Using the muscles from you rotators in your hips all the way down through your feet, while keeping the majority of your weight on the toes.

c) The baby toes of the feet should be on the floor and the weight of your body should be equally shared between all 5 toes.

d) All the above are correct

e) All the above are incorrect

Question #4

What is the age where you can no longer change the amount of your skeletal turnout?

a) 25

b) 35

c) 12

d) 7

e) It will continue to change for your whole life

Question #5

What are ways to better your turnout?

a) All of the below

b) Performing certain stretches

c) Stretching the iliofemoral ligament

d) Strengthening the muscles around your hips, your abdomen, and your lower back

e) None of the above

Question #6

Which is not a benefit of good turnout?

a) Prettier lines

b) A, C, D, E

c) More stability and balance

d) Greater range of movement

e) More flexibility

Question #7

Why wouldn't someone be able to demonstrate enough turnout from the hips?

a) anatomical limitations

b) lifting up through your body, from your toes to your head

c) lack of muscle control

d) Both B and C

e) Both A and C

Question #8

Rotating (turnout) from where causes your ankles and knees to hurt or become injured?

a) Hips

b) Gluteus Maximus

c) Piriformis

d) Iliofemoral ligament

e) Knees

Question #9

Which of the following is not a stretch described to help stretch turnout?

a) Lay on your stomach while your legs are stretched out in second position

b) Lay on your stomach with your legs bent, feet together and reaching towards the floor

c) Lay on your back with your legs open in second position

d) A, B, C are all correct

e) None of the above are correct

Question #10

Which of the following body parts could become injured due to not using the correct techniques of turning out?

a) Knees

b) Ankles

c) Feet

d) Lower Back

e) All of the Above

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