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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. A ballet fan or enthusiast. The word was invented in Russia in the early nineteenth century.






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






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






4. A






5. Backwards - reverse.






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






7. Change of the feet in the air.






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






9. Seven






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






11. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. Step






19. 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






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






21. 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.






22. A jump from both feet onto one foot






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






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






25. 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.






26. Body.






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






28. Separated or thrown apart. Body position.






29. Connected movements on the points






30. Big - large. (movements)






31. Withdrawn. A position in which the thigh is raised to the second position.






32. Raised






33. Small - little






34. 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.






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






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






37. Leg.






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






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






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






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






42. To prick






43. 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.






44. To lean






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. A step traveling in a diagonal direction.






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