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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. To put together - to make a jump from one foot then landing on both feet.






2. Connected movements on the points






3. Two






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






5. Leg.






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






7. To escape. From 5th to second. Feet slide and don't leave floor.






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






9. 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.






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. Small - little






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






25. To the front.






26. To throw about. This is a jump from either one foot or both feet. Jump up to double passe and extend out.






27. 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.






28. Foot rises about four inches from the floor with a well-pointed toe - then slides back into the the first or fifth 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. Behind you - movements done behind you.






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






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






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






34. To prick






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






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






39. Shouldering. The placing of the shoulders.






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






41. 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.






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






43. Turning fouetta.






44. To lean






45. Outward. Leg moves clockwise in a circular motion






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






47. Borken/breaking






48. Backwards - reverse.






49. Big - large. (movements)






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






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