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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. Sating ballet slippers dancers use when dancing in sur le point.






2. Shouldering. The placing of the shoulders.






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






4. 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.






5. Fish. A position of the body in which the legs are crossed in the fifth position and held tightly together with the back arched. This pose is taken while jumping into the air.






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






7. To stretch out - make longer






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






9. Male dance partner to the ballerina






10. Turning fouetta.






11. Open - opened.






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






13. Two






14. Slow - sustained movement






15. 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






16. 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.






17. Foot rises about four inches from the floor with a well-pointed toe - then slides back into the the first or fifth position.






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






19. A jump from both feet onto one foot






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






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






22. 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.






23. Borken/breaking






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






25. To the front.






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






27. Change of the feet in the air.






28. 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.






29. Chased. A step in which one foot literally chases the other foot out of its position; done in a series.






30. Over. Indicates that the working foot passes in front of the supporting foot.






31. Round of the leg. Circular movement of the leg.






32. 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.






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






34. Seven






35. Raised






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. Running.






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






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






41. To prick






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






43. 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.






44. 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






45. Leg.






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






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






48. Big - large. (movements)






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






50. Backwards - reverse.