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| What body parts line up with each other to create the dancer's "plumb line" (ear, shoulder, hip, knee, foot) |
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| Arasbesque leaning, pitched forward |
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| Spring in the air turning one revolution with the legs in fifth position |
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| Slow controlled movement combination perormed in the center floor |
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| Bounced, ball-like (Spring into the air, simultaneously executing a battment then land in demi plie with the working foot sur le cou-de-pie |
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| Stretches that pulsate or bounce |
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| Broken, breaking. (Fundamentally a brise is an assemble beaten and traveled) |
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| Caper. (The working leg is thrust in the air; the underneath leg follows and beats against the first leg, sending it higher) |
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| Half counter beating (5th position, Rt, foot front. Spring upward off the Rt. foot & bring the Lt. food sur le cou-de-pied durriere. Land on the Rt. foot in demi plie & slide Lt foot forward) |
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| Turned aside. (A backward turn in the direction of the back foot which reverses the position of the feet.) |
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| Directions in which the dancer stands in relation to the audience.) *Note: These are a synthesis of Cecchetti |
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| shaded; open, to the front |
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| Shaded, open behind, back |
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| at/to the side/2nd position |
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| directly behind, to the back |
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| "Thrown apart" - diagonal front |
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| "Thrown apart" - diagonal behind |
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| "Shouldered" - a spiral arabesque |
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| Escaped beaten. (5th position, Rt. foot Fwd; plie & spring into the air opening legs to 2nd position. Land in 2nd position demi plie. Spring into air & beat Rt. leg Fwd of Lt leg, landing in 5th position, demi plie with Rt. foot back |
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| Fitted together, "boxed". (Demi plie spring into the air executing 1/2 turn as bring Rt. foot fwd in sur le cou-de-pied front. The step is then executed on the other foot while making a 1/2 turn in the same direction.) |
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| Four crossings (5the position demi plie, Rt. foot front. Spring into the air open legs & beat calves together with Rt. leg in back. Slightly oepn the legs, switch Rt to front and land in demi plie 5th position, Rt foot front. |
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| Three crossings. (Entrechat trois is a royale that finishes on one foot with the other foot in sur le cou-de-pied, either front or back) |
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| Essentially faille is a sissone in which during the spring into the air, the feet are held closely together and simultaneously the body turns eggace so the Lt shoulder comes fwd and head turns to the Lt shoulder as the legs spring open. |
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| Whipped circle of the leg turning outward. |
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| Large cat's step. (Russian turm. Execute a petite pas de chat, except the leading leg is thrown fwd as in a grand jete) |
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| insteo arch; long arch from ball of foot to heel on the inside of foot. |
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| located under the metatarsul heads of the foot |
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| Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facillitation |
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| Scientific method of stretching that elicits a stretch-relax response |
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| "Rolling in" of the foot towards the big toe joint and instep |
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| Principle factors of flexibility |
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1. amount of applied force
2. duration of applied force
3. temperature of tissue |
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| Pique tour double (inside) |
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| Pique tour that turns twice before landing |
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| "Lame duck." Step forward in plie, then execute a pique tour on the second leg turning in the opposite direction to the supporting leg |
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| Arabesque leaning; tilted forward in an oblique line |
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| Small lively, brisk dance movements |
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| Scissor step. Similar to a cabriole devant, except that the legs don't beat, but pass over each other (hitch kick) |
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| Double royale. (essentially, a beaten entrechat quarte (beat, then entrechat quatre) |
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| Remedy for injury. (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation) |
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| Reverence, courtsey. Formal ending of class that is actually a rehearsal for actual ending of theatre performance in response to applause from audience |
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| Basque jump. (5th position, Rt. foot fornt. Step to the 2nd in demi plie on the Rt. foot turning so that the back is to the audience, and thrust the Lt leg to the 2nd postion in the air while pushing off the floor with the Rt foot into coupe front) |
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| Large or big sissone. (A jump into the air from both feet, drawing one leg up in a retire position and extending the other leg in grande seconde or a la quatrieme derriere.) |
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- Dart (elancer)
- glide (glisser)
- jump (sauter)
- turn (tourner)
- stretch (etendre)
- bend (plie)
- to raise (relever)
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| Large soubresaut (Russian changement). A jump with both feet from 5th position with the knees bent and the feet drawn up, toes pointed. |
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| "Rolling outward" towards the outside edge of the foot |
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| Passive stretches involving holding the position for up to one minute |
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| Thigh movement. A step in which the working foot is picked up from 5th position and quickly replaced in preparation for a small sissone in the required direction. |
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| Arrow step. (Hitch kick develope). First leg (bow) raise grand battment devant and then is bent and brought back as the 2nd leg (arrow) does a qucik develope through it |
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| Rotation of the legs from the hip, outward away from the midline of the body. (The hips, knees, and toes point outward away from the midline of the body.) |
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| Large jete over and turning. Similar to the grand jete except that in mid air, the body is flung over to face the direction from which the jump originated, landing in a demi plie in arabesque |
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