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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. Whirl - or spin






2. Behind you - movements done behind you.






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






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. Connected movements on the points






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






9. Slow - sustained movement






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






11. To the front.






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






17. Dance for four






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






19. Body.






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






21. Separated or thrown apart. Body position.






22. Dance for three






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






24. Sinking down. A term used to describe a lowering of the body made by bending the knee of the supporting leg.






25. Shouldering. The placing of the shoulders.






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






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






28. 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.






29. Two






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






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






36. To prick






37. 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.






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






39. Small jeta - from a demi plia.






40. Change of the feet in the air.






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. Dance for two.






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






44. (Movements) in the air

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45. Male dance partner to the ballerina






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






47. Turning fouetta.






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






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






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