User:Ejmc/Glossary of ballet by categories

Use this page when you know a movement or position but don't know the proper name. The Glossary of ballet is useful if you know a term but don't know it's definition.

Barre work

• En croix - crossed
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Legs & feet

• Positions of the feet in ballet - 1st through 7th positions
• À la seconde - 2nd position
• Second position, seconde
• Battement - kick
• Coupé - foot against ankle
• Passé - foot against knee
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Arms

• Positions of the arms in ballet - 1st through 5th positions
• Bras Croisé - crossed arms
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Body positions

• Position of the arms in ballet
• Arabesque
• Attitude
• Croisé, croisée - facing audience at an angle
• Derrière - back side
• Devant - front side
• Effacé -
• Elevé - rise from flat foot to balls of feet
• Épaulement - rotating shoulders & head relative to the hips
• Fondu - lowering the body
• Plié - bending knees
• Poisson - pose with jump into partners arms
• Port de bras - movement of the arms
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Pointe

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Steps

• À la seconde - movement to the side
• Arrière - movement to the back
• Avant - movement to the front
• Bourrée - quick even gliding movement
• Chassé - slide
• de Côté - side step
• Couru - small, quick steps
• Développé -
• En dedans - circular movement
• En dehors - circular movement
• Frappé - foot striking the floor
• Glissade - glide
• Pas - step or a group of steps that make up a dance
• Pas de bourrée - 3 quick steps to back, side, front
• Piqué - pointed tow touches floor
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Jumps and beats

• Assemblé
• Ballon - bounce
• Batterie - beat
• Brisé - jump
• Cabriole - jumb/beat
• Changement
• Échappé - jump/spring
• Entrechat - beat
• Failli - spring to land on one foot
• Fouetté jeté - a leap that starts with a turn
• Hortensia - jump with foot to knee
• Jeté - jump from one foot to the other
• Pas de chat - sideways jump
• Petit saut - small jump
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Turns

• Chaînés - series of quick turns
• Demi Detourné - half turn
• Fouetté - whipping around of the body
• Pirouette - turn on one leg
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Linking movements

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Partnering

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References

• Mary Clark and Clement Crisp: The Ballet Goer's Guide; Alfred A. Knopf, 1981, ISBN 0-394-51307-x
• Jane Robbins: Classical Dance""; Holt, Rinehart and WInston, 1981, ISBN 0-03-048941-5
• Gail Grant: Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet; Dover Publications, 1982, ISBN 0-486-21843-0
• Gretchen Ward Warren: Classical Ballet Technique; University of South Florida Press, 1989, ISBN 0-8130-0945-6