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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. To lean






2. Sating ballet slippers dancers use when dancing in sur le point.






3. Whirl - or spin






4. Grand dance for two. Has a definite 5 parts.






5. Dance for two.






6. To the front. Any step in front of your body.






7. Step of the cat. Jump where legs come up to double passa.






8. Inward. Indicates that the leg moves in a circular direction - counterclockewise - from the back to the front.






9. Dance for four






10. Pas de bourra - running. This is a progression on the points or demi-pointes by a series of small - even steps with the feet close together. It may be done in all directions or in a circle.






11. The crossing of the legs with the body placed at an oblique angle to the audience.






12. Arms






13. Basque jump. A traveling step in which the dancer turns in the air with one foot drawn up to the knee of the other leg. Fifth position are foot front.






14. At the neck of the foot. Wrapped around.






15. A stationary handrail that is used during ballet warm up exercises. The term also refers to the exercises that are performed at the barre - as well as that part of a ballet class that incorporates barre exercises. Much of a ballet dancer's training t






16. Dance for three






17. Turning fouetta.






18. Term used to describe the ability of a dancer to raise and hold her extended leg en l'air.






19. To the front.






20. Outward. Leg moves clockwise in a circular motion






21. To get bigger/ big fast movements






22. Body.






23. Section that brings you to the end of a dance - its big and important.






24. To prick






25. To throw. A jump from one foot to the other in which the working leg is brushed into the air and appears to have been thrown.






26. To turn in the air. A complete sing - double - or triple turn in the air; usually landing in 5th position.






27. In the shape of a cross. (Front - side - back - side)






28. Slow - sustained movement






29. A






30. Under. Indicates that the working foot passes behind the supporting foot.






31. Enrico Cecchetti was a ballet teacher. He had a system of passing the tradition of ballet down to the next generation. The method has a definite program of strict routine and includes a table of principal set daily exercises for each day of the week.






32. Withdrawn. A position in which the thigh is raised to the second position.






33. Running.






34. Sideways. Used to indicate that a step is to be made to the side - either to the right or to the left.






35. Turning. Indicates that the body is to turn while executing a given step.






36. Flying brisa. In this brisa the dancer finishes on one foot after the beat - the other leg crossed either front or back.






37. A jump from both feet onto one foot






38. To glide. A traveling step executed by gliding the working foot from the fifth position in the required direction - the other foot closing to it.






39. To strike powerfully. An exercise in which the dancer forcefully extends the working leg from a cou-de-pied position to the front - side or back.






40. This is a term used in double (supported) work for various lifts in which the danseuse is supported by the danseur in a poisson position. He may hold her above his head in a horizontal fish dive or she may fall from a sitting position on his shoulder






41. To face hips square. Not particularly to the front.






42. Bourrae step - done on pointe of demi-point.






43. (Movements) in the air

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44. Arms low or down. This is the dancer's 'attention.' The arms form a circle with the palms facing each other and the back edge of the hands resting on the thighs. The arms should hang quite loosely but not allowing the elbows to touch the sides.






45. To rock - or to swing.






46. Foot rises about four inches from the floor with a well-pointed toe - then slides back into the the first or fifth position.






47. Small - half bend of the knees.






48. Whipped. A term applied to a whipping movement.






49. Shouldering. The placing of the shoulders.






50. Line. The outline of a dancer as she executes certain steps.