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Ballet Basics Vocab

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






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






3. Big - large. (movements)






4. Under. Indicates that the working foot passes behind the supporting foot.






5. Dance for two.






6. Body.






7. Chased. A step in which one foot literally chases the other foot out of its position; done in a series.






8. Outward. Leg moves clockwise in a circular motion






9. Grand dance for two. Has a definite 5 parts.






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






11. 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.






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






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






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






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






16. Backwards - reverse.






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






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






19. 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.






20. Male dance partner to the ballerina






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






22. 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.






23. Change of the feet in the air.






24. This means 'moving' the leg.






25. To the front. Any step in front of your body.






26. Shouldering. The placing of the shoulders.






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






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






29. Borken/breaking






30. Foot rises about four inches from the floor with a well-pointed toe - then slides back into the the first or fifth position.






31. Leg.






32. Running.






33. Dance for four






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






35. To prick






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






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






38. Open - opened.






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






40. Turning fouetta.






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






42. Small - little






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






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






45. Whirl - or spin






46. Round of the leg. Circular movement of the leg.






47. To get bigger/ big fast movements






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






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






50. 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







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