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Adage (French)
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| A series of exercies in slow, controlled movements to develop balance, strength, a sense of line and poise, and a feeling for quality of movement. |
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Alies De Peigeon
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| Pigeon's wings. Dancer leaps off one leg throwing the other leg forward. The legs beat, change, beat again and the dancer lands on the leg he jumped from. |
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Allegre (french)
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Brisk, lively includes all steps of Elevations such as: Assemble, ballonne, cabriole, entrechats, jete, sissonne, temps Leve
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| Extended, outstretched as in arabesque allonge, and attitude allonge |
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| Named after a form of moorish ornament, actually and extended line). Basically a sposition of the body supported on oneleg with the other extened DERRIERE. The arms are held in various positions, always creating the longest possible line from fingertip to toe witht palms facing down. The Russian method uses four principles arabeques; the classic italian uses five; and the french system uses 2 |
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1st Arabesque (Russian)
standing in profile, the body is slightly inclinded forward, with and arched back, is supported on one leg, the other DERRIERRE. Arm on supporting leg side is extened forward and other slight behind 2nd. Head erect, eyes focused beyond forward arm |
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| Assembled. Demi-plie, brush one foot outward off the floor, spring in the air and land on both feet simutaneously in 5th position. |
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| A position of the body supported on one leg with the raised leg curved DEVANT or DERRIERE, arms are rounded, palms facing body. |
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| Balancing, shifting the weight from one foot to another |
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| Outstanding female Dancer |
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| A theatrical representation of a story or an abstracted idea by means of a dance of pantomimic action, usually accompanied by music |
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Ballletomane
(bal luh tuh man)
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| a person who enjoys ballet |
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Bounce, a light, elastic quality in dance movement. Like a bouncing ball
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| Bounced. A temps leve on one foot while the other is extened and whipped back SUR LE COU_DE_PIED with and petit fouette. Also done raccourci or retire. may be done in any body position. |
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Ballonne Compose
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| A compound step consisting of a ballone, glissade and close in 5th position. |
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Ballonne A Trois Temos
(Ba luh Nay Trwah Tauhm)
Checchetti |
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| A compound step in the itlaian method consisting of Ballonee Devant, temps leve (Chassee) and coupe dessous |
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| tossed. spring into the air bending both knees and landing on one foot with the other opening efface devant or derrierr with a develope. may also be done with staright legs |
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| hand rail to help support or balcne dance during exercises |
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| Beat. a beating of the straight or bent leg |
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Battment Battu
(Baht mauhn ba two)
aka Petit Fouette |
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| open the foot to the side and whip it in a sharpley sur le cou-de-pied, devant or derriere. May also be done raised tot he knee |
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Grand Battment
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| Large Beating. The working leg is raised from the hip a la quatrieme deveant, a la seconde, or a la quatrieme derriere, and closed to 5th position. |
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Grand Battment Arrondi
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| A grand rond de jambe En L'Air En Dehours or En dedans, done in one strong movement from 5th position, or from 4th position A terre to 4th position A terre Devant and Derriere. |
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Grand Battment En Balancoire
(Grahn Baht Mauhn Balauhn Swar)
AKA grand battment jete or grand battment En Cloche |
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| Like a seesaw. Continuous grand battment front and back passing through 1st position. |
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Battement En Croix
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| Large Battement in the form of a cross (one to the front, on to the side, one to the back, and one to the side) |
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Grand Battement Pointe
AKA- Grand Battement Fini Pique
Grand Battement Jete Pointe |
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| A grand battement finishing pointe tendu |
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Battement Degage
AKA- Battement Tendu Jete
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| The working foot brushes briskly outward off the floor (front, side, or back) and returns to 5th or 1st position |
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| Raise working foot to retire position (the knee) and open it in front, side or back and close in 5th position. |
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| Plie on supporting leg and raise working foot Sur le cou-de-pied, then starighten supporting leg and at the same time extend working foot pointe tendu front, side and back. May be done En L'Air and Releve |
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| Beat, strike. The working foot beets the ankle of the supportin leg, then strikes the floor front, side, or back. Also done as doubles |
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Petits Battements Sur le Cou-de-pied
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| small beatings on the ankle alternating fron and back. |
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| From 5th position the working foot slides to the front, side or back as supporting leg is bent in deni plie, then raises to 5th position on demi-pointes |
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| The working foot slides from 5th position to 4th position or 2nd position and returns to 5th without leaving the floor. |
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| from 5th position slide working foot to 4th or 2nd position A Terre, lower heel to flooer and raise it again before closing in 5th position |
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Grand Batterie
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| Steps with beats and requiring elevation as cabrioles and entrechats Volees |
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| Steps with beats requiring elevation, done quickly and brillianty as jete battus, entrachat trois, quatre, and cinq. also royal and brises |
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| Beaten. Any step done with a beat is battu, as jete battu, assemble battu |
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| A movment in which the toes never leave the floor, the legs appear to ripple and are always crossed. The dancer thus appears to glide in perrpetual motion across the floor. Bourres sideways always move toward the front foot. they may also be performed sur la place, as well as traveling in avant and en arriere |
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Caper. May be dont in all the positions of the body.
devant, derriere, foutte |
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| Arched. The bending of the body from the waist tot he side or back |
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Chaines
AKA-Deboules and Petit tours |
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| Chain. Continuous fast turns in a straight line or a circle making a half turn on eahc foot. |
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| Spring up from 5th position and change feet in the air before landing in 5th position with the other foot front |
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Changement Battu
AKA- Royale or Entrechat Royale |
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| A changement preceeded by a beating of the calves of both legs. |
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| Scissors. Sping in the air opening both legs to 2nd positon and land in 5th position. |
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| Finale of a classical ballet in which principal dancers participate |
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Contretemps
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Demi-Contretemps
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| Stand in 5th position, R foot front, spring into air brushings L foot Sur le Cou=de-pied back as you land on R, slide L foot through 1st and 5th front to 4th in a demi plie |
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| Cut. One foot cuts the other away and takes its place |
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| Crossed. The dancer stands at an angle to the audience with one leg crossed in front or back. |
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| In the shape of a cross. The exercise is done front, side, back, side. Maye also be executed side, back, side, front or back, side, front, side |
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Danesur (male dancer)
Danseuse (female dancer) |
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| Disjointed. The working leg opens side and closes in 5th position, back, as the dancer travels backwards. |
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Deboules
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| Rolling as a ball. A series of half turns dont in a straight line or circle, executed very quickly. |
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| A dancers first performance |
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| Disengaged. An extentsion of the leg to demi-en-L'air in any open position with the foot well arched. n the italian method Degage also denotes a rotation of the working leg in the hip |
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| Half. A movement or pose executed half way |
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| half arms. arms in a midway position |
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| half Detourne. Pull up in 5th position and make a half turn toward the back foot on both feet, finishing with the opposite foot in front |
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Demi-Hauteur
(Oh tehr)
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| Half Height. Leg is raised to 45 degrees. |
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| Half bend (of the knees with heels remaining on the floor) |
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| Drawn Out. Stretch the leg holding the fot with the corresponding hand |
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| Turned aside. A turn on pointe or half pointe in the direction of the back foot finishing with the opposite foot front |
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| Start with R foot pointed back, make half turn R to finish with the R foot pointed front (dancer now has back foot to audience) |
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| From an arabesque position, turn body slowly indirection of back leg to A la Seconde, or A la Quatriene Devant |
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| Unfolding of the working leg until it is fully extended in the desired position. |
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| Developpe with the foot passing from front to back (developpe passe derriere) or reverse (developpe passe devant). This may also be done Pique, Releve, or Saute |
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Divertissement
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| a suite of short dances inserted into a classical ballet |
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| Spread. A position of the body in which the arms and legs are held in an oblique angle. |
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| Escaped. From a closed position to an open position |
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| Spring in the air from a closed position, open legs and alnd in 2nd or 4th position |
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| demi plie in a closed and spring to demi-pointes |
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| Shaded. A position of the body in which the dancer stands at an obliqur angle to the audience, leg front or back. |
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| The ability of a dancer to attain height in dancing by springing, leaping ect. |
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Emboite
AKA Petits Jetes (french)
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| Boxed in, encased. Jumps from one foot to the other, raising the legs, bent in a low attitude position with feet passing in air. May be done devant or derriere. |
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| Emboite turning. These are Emboite devant done in a straight line or a circle making a half turn in each emboite. |
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| On Pointe or demi-pointe. the dancer moves forward by opening the back leg to the side with a small movement and quickly closes it in 5th position front. The reverse of this is DEBOITE |
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| A sentence or phase of steps |
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Enlevement
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| the lifting of a dancer by her partner |
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| A beaten spring in the air in which the legs cross repeatedly, even numbers finish on two feet and odd numbers finish on one foot |
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| This is used in both the russian and italian methods. The french school calls it Entrechat cinq de volee. After a glissade derriere R, raise R leg A las seconde and spring in the air, beat L foot in back, change feet and beatm and change feet once more before landing in 5th position, R foot front |
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| Spring in air from 5th position and execute entre chat quatre before landing in 2nd position |
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| Spring into the air from 2nd position and execute an entrechat quatre before landing in 5th position |
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| A movement in which the working leg swings from the back with and grand rond de jambe and slips into the cou-de-pied or raccourci while the body is turning en dedans-releve or saute. |
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| Shouldered. A position of the body in which the front shoulder is brought forward |
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| A term for a movement of the body above the waist in which one shoulder is brought forward and the head turned towards the forward shoulder |
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| Exercises similiar to those done at the barre, but without support |
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| term used to describe the ability of dancer to hold stretched leg in air |
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| Giving way. Spring into the air from 5th position R foot front, turn slightly to R and land on R foot with L raised back, then immediatley slide left foot through 1st position to 4th position croise devant, finishing demi-plie with the weight on the left foot |
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| From 2nd position whip the R foot Sur Le Cou-de-pied, open to 2nd position and whip the foot sur le cou-de-pied derriere. The foot flics or brushes the floor as it is whipped in towards in the ankle. |
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| Melted. In ballet it is a plie on the supporting leg. A step may be described as fondu if the dnacer lands in plie on one foot and then places the other foot in 5th position with a slow careful movement |
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Gargouillade
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| Gurgling or rumbling. A pas de chat with petits rond de jambe in L'air added. |
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| A gliding step from 5th position starting and ending in demi-plie |
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| Gliding. A movement not a step in abllet |
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A la Hauteur
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| To the height. The working leg raised hip high. |
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| Thrown. A leap in any direction throwing weight from one foot to the other |
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| tight fitting garment for trunk of the body, made of a fabric permitting freedom of the body movement |
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| The line or form of the body |
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| The person responsible for rehearsing ballets in repertoire and for giving the company classes. (ballet master) |
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| To tell a story or express an emotion with gesture and facial expression |
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The seven movements in dance:
Elancer
Entendre
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Plier
Relever
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| Relationship of the arms to the legs. the arm position is in opposition to the working leg or a relationship of one arm to the other, one forward and one back |
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| Running steps to gain momentum for a grande jete or an Assemble en tournant battu |
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| A step on three counts originating in the folk dances of the basques. May be done glisse or saute, en avent or arriere (3 changes of wieght) |
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Step of the Bourree, an old french dance
Dessous: back, side, front
Dessus: front, side, back
Devant: front, side, front
Derriere: back, side, back
En Avant: forward, no change in feet
En Arriere: backward, no change in feet
En Tournant: may be done en dedans or en dehours
Pique: A pas de bouree in which the working foot is raised sur le cou-de-pied or retire
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| step of the cat-5th position R foot back, raise R foot to L knee, spring into the air raising L foot to R knee and land on R foot quickly closing L foot in 5th position demi-plie. This is the french and italian version. |
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| Called step of the horse because it resembles a horse pawing the ground. the R foot is pointed front. Brush R foot fron in to L knee and open it with a Developpe devant and return it to pointe tendu devant. This may also be done releve on supporting leg or saute |
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| Great dances for two, usually in five parts. Entree and adage for the two dancers, solo for the girl, solo for the boy, and coda for both |
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| A dignified and stylized marching step done with or without the developpe en avant before step |
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| Small jetes finish pointe tendu. May be done devant, derriere and de cote |
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| Passed. A movement in which the foot of the working leg passes the knee of the supporting leg from one direction to another as in developpe passe devant |
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| leabing as in arabesque or attitude penche in which the body is low and leg is raised high in the back |
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| a step onto pointe or demi pointe. Also a descriptive term used to denote the picking manner in which a step is executed |
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| Pique R on R foot close L in 5th position back and turn in direction of back foot |
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Pique Enveloppe
Tour de Basque (russian)
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| Pique on R foot cross L foot over adn turn R on both feet |
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En Dedans: step onto the pointe of the R foot turning R with L foot Sur le cou-de-pied derriere, or retire. At the completion of the turn demi plie on L foot with R foot extended devant
En Dehours: Step flat onto the R foot to the right and cross L foot over, step on Pointe of L foot turning En Dehours with R foot Sur Le Cou-De-pied or retire |
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Turn or spin on one foot.
En Dedans: A turn in the direction of the supporting leg
En Dehours: A turn in the direction of the working leg
Sur Le Cou De Pied: A turn with the foot raised to the ankle
En Attitude or Arabesque: A turn in arabesque or attitude.
A La Seconde: A turn with one leg raied in 2nd position
Grande: A series of pirouettes, sometimes pirouettes a la seconde with a releve between each turn |
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| In Place. a step or steps done on the spot |
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A bedning of the knees
demi-half bedn of the knees without raising heels
Grande: Full bend of the knees until the thighs are horizontal |
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Pointe Tendu
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| Leg extended with toe pointed A Terre. |
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| Leg extended with toe pointed A Terre. |
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| hop, step, close, step. May be done forward, side or back. Most commonly in 2/4 time signiture |
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| Carried. A step which is traveled, or a girl being carried by her partner |
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| Carriage of the arms. A series of movements made by passing the arms/arm through various positions |
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| A posing step on demi or full pointe (as to pique into a pose) |
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| body alignment. pelvis must be centered, not tipped forward or back. Abdomen pulled in and lifted; derriere pulled down, diaphram raised; shoulders dropped naturally downward and open; head erect, eyess looking forward; arms held down, rounded from the shoulder blades to the fingertips and slightly forward from the body |
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| the dancer turns slowly in place on one foot while holdong a pose in Arabesque, attitude ect. In a pas de deux the girl is supported on pointe by her partner who turns her slowly |
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1.An extended foot is drawn into the supporting led (raccourci-shortened)
2. The foot is drawn up from 5th position to touch the knee of the supporting leg (retire-withdrawn) |
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| Relifted. Generally the raising of the body to pointe or demi-pointe |
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| Reversed or upset. the beding of the body during a turn which the normal balance is upset, but not the equlilbrium. the upper body inclines side, back and sideways, in reverse to the lower body |
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| The rotating of the leg in the hip |
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Royale
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| A changement preceded by a beat. |
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| An Entrchat Quatre preceded by a beat |
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| Jumped. Jumping. When added tot he name of a step, that step is performed jumping as in ron de jambe en lair saute |
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| Step R and brush L leg (passing through 1st position) to A la seconde, spring into the air and complete turn landing on L foot with the R foot front of knee. this may be done with a double turn in the air and also with beats |
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| French term for pa de chat |
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| Simple, as in sissonne simple (temps leve) |
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| Named for the oringinator of the movement |
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| An entrechat step with six moves. Jump from 5th position R foot front, beat R back, r foot front and close R foot back 5th position |
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| sudden bound, A spring from 5th position with legs tightly crossed and feet pointed. may be done en avant, croise, or efface. The land is in 5th position with out changing feet. On pointe is a sous-sous |
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| this a releve in a tight 5th position done with a spring onto pointe or demi pointe with elance |
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| Sustained. Plie on supporting leg opening working leg to front, side or back. then spring up in 5th position on pointe or demi-pointe without bending working leg |
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| while turning, a dancer usese head movement and focus of eyes thus: the yese focuse at a particular spot and the head is the last to leave the focus on that spot, then is the first to arrive again as the body completes the turn IE the head is the last to leave and then snaps around to be the first to arrive |
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| time, step or movement in which there is no transfer of weight |
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| Thigh movement. Move the working foot from 5th position and quickly replace it and execute a small sissonne ferme. May be done dessous, dessus, en arriere, en avant |
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| Step of the arrow. Raise R leg straight front, spring into the air and bend the knee as the L leg does a developpe over it and land on R leg with L leg en l'air. Temps de fleche may also be done with staright legs |
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Temps De Poisson
AKA Soubersaut Poisson |
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| Step of the fish. This is a soubersaut with the back well arched and the head and feet well back. the step may be finished by landing on R foot with L leg stretched back |
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| A hop off one foot while the other is held in a position or a spring off both feet in which one is raised immediately to a position and held while dancer lasnd on one foot. May be done sur le cou-de-pied devant, derriere. En arabesque, attitude and en tournant |
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| Connected movement. An exercise for center practice composed of slidng movemnts using 2nd and 4th and closing 5th positon, with port de bras. the sliding movement is called a chasse in the italian system and atemps lie in the russian system. it may be done en avante and en arriere |
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| ended. indicates a step is to be finished in a certain manner as pirouette en dehours termine en attitude |
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| Fall. either front, side, or back on one foot with a plie |
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| turning. indicates that a step is done turning |
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| the dancer springs upwards from 5th position and turns in the air before ladning in 5th position or a desired pose. usually done with a double turn in the air |
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| Chaines. Petit Tours. Tours chaines deboules |
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| Grammatically incorrect, but this is commonly used term for grande jete en tournamt or jete entrelace |
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| French term for jete en tournant |
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| Flown, as Gargouillade vole |
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| by flying. Indicates the step is flying movement as in entrechat six de vole |
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| step, step, close. Finish together on count 3. 3/4 time signiture |
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