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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. Turning fouetta.






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






8. Seven






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






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






11. To the front.






12. Open - opened.






13. 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.






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






15. To stretch out - make longer






16. 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.






17. This describes certain jumps and steps - for example - jumping and landing from two feet - or a specific movement that is usually performed at the 'barre' - to stand on one leg - the other leg will then beat against it.






18. 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.






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






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






21. A step traveling in a diagonal direction.






22. Small - half bend of the knees.






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






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






25. Separated or thrown apart. Body position.






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






27. 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.






28. Backwards - reverse.






29. 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.






30. To rock - or to swing.






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. 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.






33. Dance for three






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






35. To the second. Applies to legs or arms. Second position.






36. To lean






37. Round of the leg. Circular movement of the leg.






38. 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.






39. 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






40. Connected movements on the points






41. A






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






43. 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.






44. Big - large. (movements)






45. Body.






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






47. 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.






48. (Movements) in the air

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






50. Raised