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Ballet Basics Vocab
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Section that brings you to the end of a dance - its big and important.
Fondu - fondue
Grande pas de deux
Temps lia sur les pointes
Coda
2. Borken/breaking
Arabesque
Jeta
Brisa vola
Brisa
3. Step
Battu
Pas
Attitude
Croix - en
4. Flying brisa. In this brisa the dancer finishes on one foot after the beat - the other leg crossed either front or back.
Ca
Brisa
Crois - croisa
Brisa vola
5. Carriage of the arm. The changing of arm positions.
Promenade
Port de bras
a
Dessous
6. Sating ballet slippers dancers use when dancing in sur le point.
Pointe shoes
Demi plia
Demi pointe - sur la
Petit jeta
7. 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
Ballon
Corps
Adagio
Fish Dive
8. 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.
Arabesque
Pas de chat
Assembla
Saut de basque
9. Step in which legs/thighs beat in the air
Tendu
Pas de valse
Cabriole
a
10. Body.
Dedans - en
Porta - portae
Cabriole
Corps
11. Connected movements on the points
Petit jeta
Temps lia sur les pointes
Cloche - en
Allegro
12. Line. The outline of a dancer as she executes certain steps.
Pointes - sur le
Ligne
Terre a
Jeta
13. Whipped. A term applied to a whipping movement.
Fouetta
Pas de bourra
Seconde - a
a
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.
Corps
a
Cavalier
Promenade
15. Waltz step. Done with a graceful swaying body. Like a balanca but feet do not cross.
Releva
Jambe
Pas de valse
Demi pointe - sur la
16. (Movements) in the air
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17. Two
Deux
Frappa
Terre a
Extension
18. 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.
Glissade
Changement
Dagaga
Saut de basque
19. To face hips square. Not particularly to the front.
En face
Dessus
Attitude
Retira or Passa
20. Jumped - jumping. When this name is added to a step - that step is done in the air.
Deux
Sauta - sautae
Dedans - en
Sickling
21. To throw about. This is a jump from either one foot or both feet. Jump up to double passe and extend out.
Tour jeta
Pas
Ballotta
Porta - portae
22. Leg.
Glissade
Arabesque
Jambe
Frappa
23. Round of the leg. Circular movement of the leg.
Rond de jambe
Pencha
Entrechat
Attitude
24. To rock - or to swing.
Entrechat
Petit
Balanca
Porta - portae
25. 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.
Fouetta - en tournant
Devant
Battu
Pas de bourra
26. Bent or bending. Bending of the knee or knees
Avant
Battement (Grand)
Plia
Assembla
27. Term used to describe the ability of a dancer to raise and hold her extended leg en l'air.
Pas de bourra
Deux
Porta - portae
Extension
28. A ballet fan or enthusiast. The word was invented in Russia in the early nineteenth century.
Dedans - en
Sissone
Devant
Balletomane
29. Slow - sustained movement
Pas de trios
Tour jeta
Attitude
Adagio
30. Small - little
Pas
Petit
Sept
Rond de jambe
31. Carried. Refers either to a step which is traveled in the air from one spot to another.
Porta - portae
Seconde - a
Port de bras
Pas
32. To stretch out - make longer
Allonga
Battu
Ballotta
Coupa jeta
33. 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.
Ligne
a
Sur le cou-de-pied
Cecchetti Method
34. Grand dance for two. Has a definite 5 parts.
Changement
Deux
Grande pas de deux
Couru
35. The crossing of the legs with the body placed at an oblique angle to the audience.
Glissade
Crois - croisa
Tournant - en
a
36. Male dance partner to the ballerina
Avant
Cavalier
Ballotta
Dessus
37. A jump from both feet onto one foot
Cavalier
Avant
Sissone
Tournant - en
38. 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.
Sissone fermae
En l'air
Daveloppa
Sickling
39. 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.
Seconde - a
Jeta
Saut de basque
Coda
40. In the shape of a cross. (Front - side - back - side)
Rond de jambe
Royale
Croix - en
Barre
41. Small rise on the ball of the foot - usually in pointe shoes.
Brisa
Dessous
En arriare
Demi pointe - sur la
42. Over. Indicates that the working foot passes in front of the supporting foot.
Grand - grande
Deux
Extension
Dessus
43. Behind you - movements done behind you.
Derriare
Pas de quatre
Devant
En arriare
44. Running.
Couru
Petit
Chassa
Temps lia sur les pointes
45. To escape. From 5th to second. Feet slide and don't leave floor.
Corps
Brisa vola
a
Divertissement
46. Change of the feet in the air.
Changement
Chassa
Terre a
Dagaga
47. 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.
Petit jeta
Frappa
Ballon
Porta - portae
48. Sideways. Used to indicate that a step is to be made to the side - either to the right or to the left.
Ca
Ouvert - ouverte
Jeta
Tour en lair
49. Seven
a
Sissone fermae
Pas de bourra couru
Sept
50. Step of the cat. Jump where legs come up to double passa.
Petit
Pas de chat
Changement
Terre a