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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. This means to pose on one leg whilst extending the other leg to the back.






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






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






4. 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.






5. Separated or thrown apart. Body position.






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






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






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






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






10. Step






11. 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






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






20. Small jeta - from a demi plia.






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






22. 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.






23. To stretch out - make longer






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






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






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






27. 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.






28. To the front.






29. Slow - sustained movement






30. 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.






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






32. 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.






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






34. Dance for three






35. Seven






36. 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.






37. To get bigger/ big fast movements






38. To lean






39. Backwards - reverse.






40. Big - large. (movements)






41. Change of the feet in the air.






42. Male dance partner to the ballerina






43. Dance for four






44. 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.






45. Small - little






46. Ground to ground. Feet never leave the floor.






47. This means 'moving' the leg.






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






49. Connected movements on the points






50. Dance for two.







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