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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. 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.






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






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






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






5. Seven






6. Running.






7. Step






8. 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.






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






10. Dance for three






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






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






13. Small - half bend of the knees.






14. (Movements) in the air

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






16. Change of the feet in the air.






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






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






19. Turning fouetta.






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






21. To stretch out - make longer






22. Body.






23. Leg.






24. To the front.






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






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






27. 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






28. Dance for two.






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






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






31. 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.






32. This means 'moving' the leg.






33. Whirl - or spin






34. A jump from both feet onto one foot






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






36. 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.






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






38. To throw about. This is a jump from either one foot or both feet. Jump up to double passe and extend out.






39. A step traveling in a diagonal direction.






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 Withdrawn.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






41. Male dance partner to the ballerina






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






49. 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.






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






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