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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. On the points. Rising to the tips of the toes.






2. Interweaving or braiding. A step of beating in which the dancer jumps into the air and rapidly crosses the legs before and behind each other.






3. Step






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






5. Backwards - reverse.






6. Leg.






7. A step traveling in a diagonal direction.






8. Chains - links. A series of rapid turns on the points or demi-pointes done in a straight line or circle.






9. To prick






10. This term is used for a fault in which the dancer turns his or her foot in from the ankle - thereby breaking the straight line of the leg.






11. Closed sissone. Low elevation and a quick tempo - this sissonne finishes on two feet with the working foot gliding along the floor into the demi-plia in the fifth position.






12. Royal. A changement in which the calves are beaten together before the feet change position.






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






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






15. Ground to ground. Feet never leave the floor.






16. Small jeta - from a demi plia.






17. Jumped - jumping. When this name is added to a step - that step is done in the air.






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






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






20. Open - opened.






21. Separated or thrown apart. Body position.






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






23. A jump from both feet onto one foot






24. To the front.






25. 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.






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






27. Over. Indicates that the working foot passes in front of the supporting foot.






28. (Movements) in the air

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29. Borken/breaking






30. Turning fouetta.






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






34. Carried. Refers either to a step which is traveled in the air from one spot to another.






35. 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.






36. The working foot slides from the first or fifth position to the second or fourth position without lifting the toe from the ground.






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






38. Dance for four






39. Small rise on the ball of the foot - usually in pointe shoes.






40. Change of the feet in the air.






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






42. Waltz step. Done with a graceful swaying body. Like a balanca but feet do not cross.






43. Seven






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






45. Running.






46. Sinking down. A term used to describe a lowering of the body made by bending the knee of the supporting leg.






47. The ability to jump easily and lightly into the air. Springy - usually men.






48. Like a bell. Refers to grand battements to the front and back sliding through first position.






49. Dance for three






50. Fish. A position of the body in which the legs are crossed in the fifth position and held tightly together with the back arched. This pose is taken while jumping into the air.







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