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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. Section that brings you to the end of a dance - its big and important.






2. Borken/breaking






3. Step






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






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






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






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. 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.






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






10. Body.






11. Connected movements on the points






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






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






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.






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






16. (Movements) in the air

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17. Two






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.






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






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






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






22. Leg.






23. Round of the leg. Circular movement of the leg.






24. To rock - or to swing.






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.






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






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






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






29. Slow - sustained movement






30. Small - little






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






32. To stretch out - make longer






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.






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






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






36. Male dance partner to the ballerina






37. A jump from both feet onto one foot






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.






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.






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






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






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






43. Behind you - movements done behind you.






44. Running.






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






46. Change of the feet in the air.






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.






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






49. Seven






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