Ballet Basics Vocab
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Ballet Basics Vocab
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1. Behind you - movements done behind you.

2. 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.

3. Body.

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

5. Seven

6. To glide. A traveling step executed by gliding the working foot from the fifth position in the required direction - the other foot closing to it.

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 Withdrawn.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

8. 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.

9. Dance for three

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

11. Change of the feet in the air.

12. Step

13. Arms

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

15. Small jeta - from a demi plia.

16. To the front.

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

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

19. Running.

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

21. 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.

22. Carried. Refers either to a step which is traveled in the air from one spot to another.

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

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

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

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