RUOE P6 – Practice Exam 1

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• D) Ballet technique is certainly extreme but it is not, in itself, dangerous.
• G) It takes at least a decade of high-quality, regular practice to become an expert in any physical discipline
• F) No one avoids this: it is ballet’s great democratiser, the well established members of the company working alongside the newest recruits.
• A) Through endless tries at the usual exercises and frequent failures, ballet dancers develop the neural pathways in the brain necessary to control accurate, fast and smooth movement.
• E) The principle is identical in the gym – pushing yourself to the limit, but not beyond, will eventually bring the desired result.
• C) As technology takes away activity from the lives of many, perhaps the ballet dancer’s physicality is ever more difficult for most people to imagine.
• B) The ballet shoe offers some support, but the real strength is in the muscles, built up through training.