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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. 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.






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






3. Turning fouetta.






4. A






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






6. Separated or thrown apart. Body position.






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






8. 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.






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






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. 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.






15. Dance for three






16. Body.






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






18. 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.






19. Raised






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






21. 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






22. To the front.






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






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






25. 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.






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






27. Change of the feet in the air.






28. Small jeta - from a demi plia.






29. Leg.






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






39. 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.






40. Dance for two.






41. A step traveling in a diagonal direction.






42. A jump from both feet onto one foot






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






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






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






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






47. Pas de bourra - running. This is a progression on the points or demi-pointes by a series of small - even steps with the feet close together. It may be done in all directions or in a circle.






48. To lean






49. Backwards - reverse.






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