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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. To throw about. This is a jump from either one foot or both feet. Jump up to double passe and extend out.






2. 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.






3. This means 'moving' the leg.






4. To rock - or to swing.






5. To stretch out - make longer






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Borken/breaking






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






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






16. 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.






17. Backwards - reverse.






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






19. Small - little






20. Running.






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






22. To lean






23. To prick






24. 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.






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






26. Slow - sustained movement






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






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






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






30. Male dance partner to the ballerina






31. Open - opened.






32. Dance for two.






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






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






35. Separated or thrown apart. Body position.






36. 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.






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






38. Small jeta - from a demi plia.






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






40. Body.






41. A step traveling in a diagonal direction.






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






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






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 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.






46. (Movements) in the air

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47. Two






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






49. 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.






50. Whirl - or spin







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