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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. Carried. Refers either to a step which is traveled in the air from one spot to another.






2. Dance for four






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






4. 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






5. Separated or thrown apart. Body position.






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






7. Male dance partner to the ballerina






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






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






10. Leg.






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






12. Borken/breaking






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






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. 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.






16. To prick






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






22. This means 'moving' the leg.






23. Connected movements on the points






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






25. 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.






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






27. 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.






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






29. To stretch out - make longer






30. 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.






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






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






33. Slow - sustained movement






34. 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.






35. Seven






36. 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






37. Dance for three






38. 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.






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






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






41. To get bigger/ big fast movements






42. 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.






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






44. Shouldering. The placing of the shoulders.






45. A jump from both feet onto one foot






46. Change of the feet in the air.






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






48. Backwards - reverse.






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






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







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