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45 Cards in this Set
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plié |
to bend |
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battement tendu devant, à la seconde, derriére |
to stretch front, side, back |
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en croix |
shape of the cross |
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battement dégagé |
to pull away from each other |
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battement jeté (glissé) |
to throw |
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bras bas |
arms low/down |
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port de bras |
carriage of the arms |
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rond de jambe (à terre) |
circling of gesture leg (on the floor) |
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en dehors |
away from supporting leg outward movement |
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en dedans |
coming towards supporting leg inward movement |
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battement fondu |
to melt |
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relevé |
to lift |
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retiré/passé |
withdraw/passing through |
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échappé (sur les demi-pointes/sauté) |
to escape (on half point/jump) |
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grand battement |
big beat |
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sur le cou-de-pied |
on the neck of the foot |
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arabesque |
classical line leg at back reaching out ideally at 90 degrees supporting leg stretched arms in élongé (matching legs) |
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attitude |
classical position supporting leg stretched back leg bent knee and thigh raised arms usually rounded |
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pirouette |
to turn |
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chassé |
to chase |
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sauté |
to jump |
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pas de bourrée |
fifth-second-fifth 3 count step originally from French dance 'Gavotte' |
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glissade |
to glide |
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assemblé |
to assemble |
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pas de cheval |
step of the horse |
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battement développé |
to unfold |
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balancé |
3 count step down - demi point on back foot - down |
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épaulement |
shouldering relationship between head and upper body |
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en face |
face forward |
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croisé |
to cross crossed leg |
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éffacé |
shaded open leg term comes from fencing |
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Louis XVI "The Sun King" 1643-1715 |
est. academy of dance and music ballet became court etiquette developed classical ballet outfits: silk/jewels/displaying wealth and footwork only men performers at the time females began to perform when Louis died |
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Pierre Beauchamps |
1st French ballet master notated ballet create first 5 positions |
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Marie Taglioni |
Italian operas = popular invented pointe work Romantic ballets had sculliosis designed training method with rounded back strength like man, body of a woman |
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Romantic ballets |
dreamlike themes fantasy world escape from harsh reality written by French poets La Sylphide (first Romantic) | Giselle |
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Russian ballet |
Peter the Great changed the culture by bringing in European styles Marius Petipa |
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Marius Petipa |
Ballet master father of classical ballets La Bayadere | Sleeping Beauty | Nutcracker |
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Tchaikovsky |
1st Russian composer to work with French choreographer Sleeping Beauty | Nutcracker | Swan Lake |
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Ballet Russe |
Sergei Diaghilev (ballet director) Mikhail Fokine - 1st choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky - 2nd choreographer ballet body now longer and slimmer |
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Mikhail Fokine |
1st choreographer of Ballet russe Dying Swan | Petrushka | Firebird |
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Vaslav Nijinsky |
2nd choreographer of Ballet Russe Rite of Spring (1913) riot broke out audience shocked, angry, betrayed Stravinsky's score = the cause transition to modern ballet |
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7 Classical Ballet Methods |
1. Paris Opera Ballet School 2. Cecchetti (Italian) 3. Vaganova (Russian) 4. Bournonville (Denmark) 5. Royal Academy of Dance (London) 6. Balanchine (NYC) 7. ABT - Nation Training Curriculum (NYC) |
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Balanchine |
discovered by Leonide Nassine his ballets were too abstract and thought provoking (neo-classical) about the movement; how dancers bodies show wanted to start a company but started a school trained his own dancers then made company 10 years after |
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Enrico Cecchitti |
Italian ballet teacher dancers more flexible and more developed |
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Timeline |
Court Ballet --> Romantic (Taglioni) --> Petipa --> Ballet Russe --> Balanchine |
