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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. To stretch out - make longer






2. Running.






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






4. Borken/breaking






5. Dance for three






6. To the front.






7. To rock - or to swing.






8. Male dance partner to the ballerina






9. Turning fouetta.






10. This means 'moving' the leg.






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






12. Like a bell. Refers to grand battements to the front and back sliding through first position.






13. 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.






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






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. Withdrawn. A position in which the thigh is raised to the second position.






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






20. Behind you - movements done behind you.






21. Separated or thrown apart. Body position.






22. 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.






23. 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






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






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






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






27. Arms low or down. This is the dancer's 'attention.' The arms form a circle with the palms facing each other and the back edge of the hands resting on the thighs. The arms should hang quite loosely but not allowing the elbows to touch the sides.






28. Round of the leg. Circular movement of the leg.






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






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. A step traveling in a diagonal direction.






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






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






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






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






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






38. Big - large. (movements)






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. To get bigger/ big fast movements






44. 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.






45. Backwards - reverse.






46. Two






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






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






49. Shouldering. The placing of the shoulders.






50. Change of the feet in the air.