Ballet Basics Vocab
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Ballet Basics Vocab
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1. Borken/breaking

2. To prick

3. Connected movements on the points

4. 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

5. A

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.

7. Round of the leg. Circular movement of the leg.

8. To the front.

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

10. Separated or thrown apart. Body position.

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

12. Inward. Indicates that the leg moves in a circular direction - counterclockewise - from the back to the front.

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. Raised

20. 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.

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

22. Big - large. (movements)

23. Small - half bend of the knees.

24. 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.

25. A step traveling in a diagonal direction.

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