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Ballet Basics Vocab

Subjects : performing-arts, dance
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1. This means to pose on one leg whilst extending the other leg to the back.






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






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 Withdrawn.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






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






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






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






12. Dance for two.






13. A ballet fan or enthusiast. The word was invented in Russia in the early nineteenth century.






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






15. Behind you - movements done behind you.






16. Open - opened.






17. This means 'moving' the leg.






18. Raised






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. Like a bell. Refers to grand battements to the front and back sliding through first position.






24. To prick






25. Change of the feet in the air.






26. 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.






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






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






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






30. 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






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. To get bigger/ big fast movements






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






40. To rock - or to swing.






41. 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.






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






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






44. Small - half bend of the knees.






45. 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.






46. Leg.






47. To lean






48. Two






49. Shouldering. The placing of the shoulders.






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







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