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Ballet Basics Vocab
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1. Diversion - enjoyment. A suite of numbers called 'entraes -' inserted into a classic ballet. These short dances are calculated to display the talents of individuals or groups of dancers.
Divertissement
Ballotta
Balletomane
Balanca
2. Small rise on the ball of the foot - usually in pointe shoes.
Sissone
Chassa
Demi pointe - sur la
Grande pas de deux
3. Step in which legs/thighs beat in the air
Derriare
Seconde - a
En face
Cabriole
4. Bent or bending. Bending of the knee or knees
Demi plia
Cloche - en
Plia
Grand - grande
5. Small - half bend of the knees.
Demi plia
Pas de chat
Plia
Dessous
6. 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.
Glissade
Sissone fermae
Tendu
Dagaga
7. Section that brings you to the end of a dance - its big and important.
Entrechat
Retira or Passa
Coda
Temps lia sur les pointes
8. Dance for three
En arriare
Tour jeta
Avant
Pas de trios
9. This describes certain jumps and steps - for example - jumping and landing from two feet - or a specific movement that is usually performed at the 'barre' - to stand on one leg - the other leg will then beat against it.
Pas
Battu
Daveloppa
Bras bas
10. Jumped - jumping. When this name is added to a step - that step is done in the air.
Cloche - en
a
a
Sauta - sautae
11. Ground to ground. Feet never leave the floor.
Fouetta
Terre a
Balanca
Coupa jeta
12. Grand dance for two. Has a definite 5 parts.
a
Brisa
Barre
Grande pas de deux
13. Two
Deux
Tendu
a
Polonaise
14. Shouldering. The placing of the shoulders.
a
Pas de quatre
Extension
Barre
15. Seven
Coupa jeta
Pas de chat
Tour jeta
Sept
16. Turning. Indicates that the body is to turn while executing a given step.
Pas de quatre
Tournant - en
Rond de jambe
Coupa jeta
17. Small jeta - from a demi plia.
Demi plia
Fondu - fondue
Petit jeta
Plia
18. A step traveling in a diagonal direction.
Saut de basque
Diagonale
Releva
Frappa
19. 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.
Pas de bourra couru
Demi plia
Promenade
Balletomane
20. Chains - links. A series of rapid turns on the points or demi-pointes done in a straight line or circle.
Tour en lair
En l'air
Cha
Pointes - sur le
21. In the shape of a cross. (Front - side - back - side)
Promenade
Croix - en
Cha
Cecchetti Method
22. To stretch out - make longer
a
Daveloppa
Allonga
Adagio
23. Open - opened.
Ligne
Ouvert - ouverte
Jambe
Pas de bourra
24. Sideways. Used to indicate that a step is to be made to the side - either to the right or to the left.
Ca
Bras
Pas de valse
Dessous
25. Sating ballet slippers dancers use when dancing in sur le point.
Pointe shoes
Changement
a
Petit jeta
26. Flying brisa. In this brisa the dancer finishes on one foot after the beat - the other leg crossed either front or back.
Terre a
Brisa vola
Sickling
Attitude
27. Small - little
Petit
Ballon
Bras
Corps
28. 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.
Petit
Rond de jambe
Coupa jeta
Daveloppa
29. To prick
Crois - croisa
Piqua
Allonga
Cecchetti Method
30. Body.
Petit
Barre
Corps
Cabriole
31. Dance for two.
Sauta - sautae
Dagaga
Pas de deux
Sur le cou-de-pied
32. Male dance partner to the ballerina
Sauta - sautae
Dessus
Changement
Cavalier
33. 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.
Cavalier
Entrechat
Petit
Balletomane
34. Step
Port de bras
Pas
Pas de quatre
Seconde - a
35. To face hips square. Not particularly to the front.
Cavalier
Dessus
Pointes - sur le
En face
36. Like a bell. Refers to grand battements to the front and back sliding through first position.
Battement (Grand)
Jambe
Cloche - en
En face
37. At the neck of the foot. Wrapped around.
Ca
a
Assembla
Sur le cou-de-pied
38. 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
Barre
a
En l'air
Demi pointe - sur la
39. Backwards - reverse.
En arriare
Coupa jeta
Tour jeta
Sauta - sautae
40. The ability to jump easily and lightly into the air. Springy - usually men.
Sissone
Dehors - en
Brisa
Ballon
41. 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
Terre a
Sissone
Fish Dive
42. Waltz step. Done with a graceful swaying body. Like a balanca but feet do not cross.
Pas de valse
Dessus
Dehors - en
Ballotta
43. This jeta is done in all directions and in a circle.
Dagaga
Port de bras
En arriare
Tour jeta
44. Outward. Leg moves clockwise in a circular motion
Daveloppa
Dehors - en
Pas de bourra couru
Tour jeta
45. 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.
Dessous
a
Adagio
Cecchetti Method
46. To put together - to make a jump from one foot then landing on both feet.
Poisson
Assembla
Releva
En face
47. Big - large. (movements)
Promenade
Dessus
Balanca
Grand - grande
48. To get bigger/ big fast movements
Allegro
Porta - portae
Couru
Cecchetti Method
49. Carried. Refers either to a step which is traveled in the air from one spot to another.
a
Barre
Cloche - en
Porta - portae
50. Borken/breaking
Brisa
Tour jeta
Extension
Ballotta