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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. To the front. Any step in front of your body.






2. 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.






3. Small - little






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






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






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. 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.






9. Behind you - movements done behind you.






10. Outward. Leg moves clockwise in a circular motion






11. Round of the leg. Circular movement of the leg.






12. A step traveling in a diagonal direction.






13. 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.






14. Separated or thrown apart. Body position.






15. To the front.






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






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






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






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






20. Leg.






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






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






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






24. 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.






25. Step






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






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






28. Seven






29. To stretch out - make longer






30. Small jeta - from a demi plia.






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






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






33. 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.






34. Whirl - or spin






35. Turning fouetta.






36. 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.






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






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






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






40. 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






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






42. Slow - sustained movement






43. (Movements) in the air

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44. This means 'moving' the leg.






45. 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.






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






47. To prick






48. Body.






49. 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






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