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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. Change of the feet in the air.






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






3. To lean






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






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






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






7. Behind you - movements done behind you.






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






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






10. To the front.






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






12. Dance for four






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. Small - little






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






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






17. Leg.






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






19. A jump from both feet onto one foot






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






21. Big - large. (movements)






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






23. (Movements) in the air

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24. Round of the leg. Circular movement of the leg.






25. Dance for two.






26. 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.






27. This jeta is done in all directions and in a circle.






28. 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.






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






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






31. Open - opened.






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






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






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






35. Raised






36. A march in which two steps are taken forward on the demi-pointes and then the third step is taken flat with the supporting knee bent in fondu and the other leg raised in front.






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. Male dance partner to the ballerina






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






44. 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.






45. Two






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






47. 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






48. A






49. A step traveling in a diagonal direction.






50. Separated or thrown apart. Body position.