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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. 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.






2. Pas de bourra - running. This is a progression on the points or demi-pointes by a series of small - even steps with the feet close together. It may be done in all directions or in a circle.






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






4. The working foot slides from the first or fifth position to the second or fourth position without lifting the toe from the ground.






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






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






7. Whirl - or spin






8. 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.






9. 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






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






11. A






12. 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.






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






14. To prick






15. Dance for three






16. To the front.






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






18. Body.






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






20. Step






21. Dance for two.






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






23. Connected movements on the points






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






25. Outward. Leg moves clockwise in a circular motion






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






27. 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.






28. Open - opened.






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






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






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






32. Backwards - reverse.






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






36. Behind you - movements done behind you.






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






38. (Movements) in the air

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39. To rock - or to swing.






40. Change of the feet in the air.






41. 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.






42. A jump from both feet onto one foot






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






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






45. 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.






46. Turning fouetta.






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






48. A step traveling in a diagonal direction.






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






50. Big - large. (movements)