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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. Over. Indicates that the working foot passes in front of the supporting foot.






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






3. Small - half bend of the knees.






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






5. Royal. A changement in which the calves are beaten together before the feet change position.






6. Turning fouetta.






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






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






9. 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.






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. Two






15. Open - opened.






16. Shouldering. The placing of the shoulders.






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






18. To rock - or to swing.






19. Borken/breaking






20. Backwards - reverse.






21. Behind you - movements done behind you.






22. 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.






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






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






25. Separated or thrown apart. Body position.






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






27. Small - little






28. (Movements) in the air

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29. 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.






30. 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.






31. Dance for three






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






33. To turn in the air. A complete sing - double - or triple turn in the air; usually landing in 5th position.






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






35. Small jeta - from a demi plia.






36. A step traveling in a diagonal direction.






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






38. To get bigger/ big fast movements






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






40. 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.






41. This means 'moving' the leg.






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






43. Slow - sustained movement






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






45. 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






46. 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.






47. Dance for two.






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






49. Dance for four






50. To the front.






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