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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. This jeta is done in all directions and in a circle.






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






3. 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.






4. Developing movement. A daveloppa is a movement in which the working leg is drawn up to the knee of the supporting leg and slowly extended to an open position en l'air and held there with perfect control.






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






6. 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.






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






8. Bent or bending. Bending of the knee or knees






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






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






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 Withdrawn.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






12. Change of the feet in the air.






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






14. To turn in a walk. The dancer turns slowly in place on one foot by a series of slight movements of the heel to the required side while maintaining a definite pose.






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






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






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






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






19. Running.






20. Behind you - movements done behind you.






21. 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.






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






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






24. Leg.






25. Turning fouetta.






26. Shouldering. The placing of the shoulders.






27. 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






28. Seven






29. A step traveling in a diagonal direction.






30. Shaded. Position in which the dancer stands at an oblique angle to the audience so that a part of the body is taken back - almost hidden from view.






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






32. Carriage of the arm. The changing of arm positions.






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






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. This means to pose on one leg whilst extending the other leg to the back.






37. 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.






38. Whirl - or spin






39. A march in which two steps are taken forward on the demi-pointes and then the third step is taken flat with the supporting knee bent in fondu and the other leg raised in front.






40. Dance for three






41. Slow - sustained movement






42. To pose - balanced on one leg while the other leg is slightly bent at the knee - extended to either the front - side or back.






43. On the points. Rising to the tips of the toes.






44. Step in which the fotot goes in back coupa and you turn ¾ of a circle then do a grand jeta to complete the turn. Usually done in a circle or diagonal.






45. A jump from both feet onto one foot






46. Small - little






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






48. To rock - or to swing.






49. Separated or thrown apart. Body position.






50. 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.