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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. Dance for four






2. To put together - to make a jump from one foot then landing on both feet.






3. Seven






4. 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.






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






6. Big - large. (movements)






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






8. Step in which legs/thighs beat in the air






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






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






11. Dance for two.






12. A jump from both feet onto one foot






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






14. Connected movements on the points






15. Change of the feet in the air.






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






17. Small jeta - from a demi plia.






18. A






19. Two






20. 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






21. Shouldering. The placing of the shoulders.






22. To prick






23. Behind you - movements done behind you.






24. Step






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






26. 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.






27. A ballet fan or enthusiast. The word was invented in Russia in the early nineteenth century.






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






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






30. 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.






31. This jeta is done in all directions and in a circle.






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






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






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






36. Whirl - or spin






37. 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.






38. Small - half bend of the knees.






39. Turning fouetta.






40. To lean






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






42. 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.






43. Leg.






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. This means 'moving' the leg.






48. 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.






49. To the front.






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.