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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. Behind you - movements done behind you.






2. 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.






3. Step in which the fotot goes in back coupa and you turn ¾ of a circle then do a grand jeta to complete the turn. Usually done in a circle or diagonal.






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






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






6. Royal. A changement in which the calves are beaten together before the feet change position.






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. To the front.






13. Shouldering. The placing of the shoulders.






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






15. Dance for four






16. A stationary handrail that is used during ballet warm up exercises. The term also refers to the exercises that are performed at the barre - as well as that part of a ballet class that incorporates barre exercises. Much of a ballet dancer's training t






17. To get bigger/ big fast movements






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






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






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






21. Leg.






22. Step in which legs/thighs beat in the air






23. Change of the feet in the air.






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






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






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






27. A






28. Whirl - or spin






29. Seven






30. 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.






31. Small - little






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






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






34. 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.






35. Raised






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






37. 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.






38. A step traveling in a diagonal direction.






39. Arms






40. (Movements) in the air

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






42. Open - opened.






43. 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.






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






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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.






49. Two






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