Ballet Basics Vocab
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Ballet Basics Vocab
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1. To the front. Any step in front of your body.

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 Withdrawn.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

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

4. 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.

5. Big - large. (movements)

6. Running.

7. 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.

8. Leg.

9. 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.

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

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

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

13. Behind you - movements done behind you.

14. Two

15. 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.

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

17. 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.

18. Small - half bend of the knees.

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

20. 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.

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

22. 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.

23. Dance for three

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

25. 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.

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