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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Leg.






2. Borken/breaking






3. Raised






4. Seven






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






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






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






8. Behind you - movements done behind you.






9. Small - half bend of the knees.






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






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






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






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






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






15. This means 'moving' the leg.






16. 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.






17. Change of the feet in the air.






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






19. To lean






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






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






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






23. Backwards - reverse.






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






25. 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.






26. Interweaving or braiding. A step of beating in which the dancer jumps into the air and rapidly crosses the legs before and behind each other.






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






28. Open - opened.






29. Connected movements on the points






30. To the front.






31. Big - large. (movements)






32. To stretch out - make longer






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






34. To prick






35. Sideways. Used to indicate that a step is to be made to the side - either to the right or to the left.






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






37. 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.






38. Inward. Indicates that the leg moves in a circular direction - counterclockewise - from the back to the front.






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






40. A






41. Small - little






42. Dance for two.






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






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






45. Round of the leg. Circular movement of the leg.






46. 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.






47. Turning fouetta.






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






49. Whirl - or spin






50. To rock - or to swing.