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Ballet Basics Vocab
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1. Change of the feet in the air.
Piroette
Changement
Sickling
Pas de trios
2. At the neck of the foot. Wrapped around.
Frappa
Pas de valse
Cavalier
Sur le cou-de-pied
3. To lean
Diagonale
Pas
Ligne
Pencha
4. To the front. Any step in front of your body.
Tour en lair
a
Devant
Battu
5. In the shape of a cross. (Front - side - back - side)
Bras
Dedans - en
Pointes - sur le
Croix - en
6. Over. Indicates that the working foot passes in front of the supporting foot.
Pointes - sur le
Divertissement
Dessus
Couru
7. Behind you - movements done behind you.
Derriare
En l'air
Diagonale
Changement
8. Foot rises about four inches from the floor with a well-pointed toe - then slides back into the the first or fifth position.
Grand - grande
Demi pointe - sur la
Dehors - en
Dagaga
9. Like a bell. Refers to grand battements to the front and back sliding through first position.
Bras
Royale
Cloche - en
Sickling
10. To the front.
Attitude
Tournant - en
Avant
Balletomane
11. Carried. Refers either to a step which is traveled in the air from one spot to another.
Couru
Cha
Daveloppa
Porta - portae
12. Dance for four
Corps
Brisa
Dagaga
Pas de quatre
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.
Coupa jeta
Crois - croisa
Porta - portae
a
14. Small - little
Fouetta
Petit jeta
Crois - croisa
Petit
15. To put together - to make a jump from one foot then landing on both feet.
Sickling
Assembla
Allonga
Brisa
16. To face hips square. Not particularly to the front.
Piroette
Divertissement
Piqua
En face
17. Leg.
Dessus
Jambe
Tour jeta
Promenade
18. To escape. From 5th to second. Feet slide and don't leave floor.
Sissone fermae
Pas de trios
a
Dehors - en
19. A jump from both feet onto one foot
Sissone
Assembla
Couru
Adagio
20. Step in which legs/thighs beat in the air
Cabriole
Petit jeta
Allegro
Pas de trios
21. Big - large. (movements)
Devant
Grand - grande
En l'air
Pencha
22. The crossing of the legs with the body placed at an oblique angle to the audience.
Pas de valse
Cecchetti Method
Crois - croisa
Demi pointe - sur la
23. (Movements) in the air
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24. Round of the leg. Circular movement of the leg.
Grand - grande
Rond de jambe
Croix - en
En arriare
25. Dance for two.
a
Pas de deux
Balletomane
Arabesque
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.
Jeta
Tour en lair
Cecchetti Method
Pas de bourra
27. This jeta is done in all directions and in a circle.
Dehors - en
Tour jeta
Balanca
Cha
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.
Chassa
Sissone fermae
Sissone
Balanca
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.
Balanca
Fish Dive
Attitude
Coda
30. To throw about. This is a jump from either one foot or both feet. Jump up to double passe and extend out.
Seconde - a
Pas de trios
a
Ballotta
31. Open - opened.
Cabriole
Pas de bourra
Ouvert - ouverte
Ca
32. Royal. A changement in which the calves are beaten together before the feet change position.
Pas de valse
Royale
Saut de basque
Promenade
33. To the second. Applies to legs or arms. Second position.
Balanca
Corps
Seconde - a
Plia
34. Waltz step. Done with a graceful swaying body. Like a balanca but feet do not cross.
Cloche - en
Pas de valse
Ouvert - ouverte
Pointes - sur le
35. Raised
Sickling
Coda
Cabriole
Releva
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.
Rond de jambe
Polonaise
Promenade
Petit jeta
37. Section that brings you to the end of a dance - its big and important.
Glissade
Coda
Petit jeta
Poisson
38. The ability to jump easily and lightly into the air. Springy - usually men.
Pas de trios
Ballon
Dagaga
Porta - portae
39. Chased. A step in which one foot literally chases the other foot out of its position; done in a series.
Cloche - en
Pas de bourra
Chassa
Battu
40. Bent or bending. Bending of the knee or knees
Pencha
Arabesque
Ballon
Plia
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.
Attitude
Crois - croisa
Cecchetti Method
Changement
42. Male dance partner to the ballerina
Ca
Grande pas de deux
Cavalier
Battement (Grand)
43. On the points. Rising to the tips of the toes.
Plia
Dehors - en
Pointes - sur le
Pas de quatre
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.
Polonaise
Cha
Poisson
a
45. Two
Allegro
a
Deux
a
46. A ballet fan or enthusiast. The word was invented in Russia in the early nineteenth century.
Balletomane
Temps lia sur les pointes
Dessous
Fouetta
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
Porta - portae
Pas de quatre
Fish Dive
Deux
48. A
Avant
Devant
Grande pas de deux
a
49. A step traveling in a diagonal direction.
Porta - portae
Pas de trios
Diagonale
a
50. Separated or thrown apart. Body position.
Promenade
Assembla
a
En arriare