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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. Step of the cat. Jump where legs come up to double passa.






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






3. Closed sissone. Low elevation and a quick tempo - this sissonne finishes on two feet with the working foot gliding along the floor into the demi-plia in the fifth position.






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






5. 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.






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






7. Body.






8. Slow - sustained movement






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






10. Two






11. To rock - or to swing.






12. 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.






13. Connected movements on the points






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






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






16. 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






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






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






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






23. Seven






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






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






26. Backwards - reverse.






27. A step traveling in a diagonal direction.






28. Arms






29. Small - little






30. A jump from both feet onto one foot






31. Dance for two.






32. Turning fouetta.






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. 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.






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






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






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






39. 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.






40. Dance for three






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






42. (Movements) in the air

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43. 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






44. This means 'moving' the leg.






45. Outward. Leg moves clockwise in a circular motion






46. Shouldering. The placing of the shoulders.






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






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






49. Dance for four






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