Ballet Winter 2006

Front 1

Epaula

Back 1

Shouldered

Front 2

Efface

Back 2

Open or Shaded

Front 3

Soubresaut

Back 3

Sudden Jumping

Front 4

Pas de Bourree

Back 4

Running Steps

Front 5

Ecarte

Back 5

Seperated, thrown wide apart

Front 6

Pique tour en dedans

Back 6

Pique turing inward

Front 7

Grand Jete

Back 7

Large forward traveling leap

Front 8

Glissade

Back 8

Glide

Front 9

Changement des Pieds

Back 9

Change of the feet

Front 10

Demi Plie

Back 10

Half Bend

Front 11

Battement degage

Back 11

beating disengaged

Front 12

Eleve

Back 12

to rise up with straight leg to 3/4 point or balls of feet

Front 13

What are the difference between attitude and arabesque?

Back 13

Attitude is a pose on one leg and the other leg is lifted, well turned out and bend at the knee with the lower leg and foot opened away from the body.

Arabesque is a pose in which the body is balanced over one foot with the other leg fully extended behind, the arms also are extended, palms down creating long symmetrical line fingertip to toe

Front 14

Sissonne

Back 14

From both feet onto one foot

Front 15

Battement Fondu

Back 15

Melting

Front 16

Battement Frappe

Back 16

Struck

Front 17

Grand Battement

Back 17

Large beating action of the leg

Front 18

Rond de jambe a terre

Back 18

circle or round of leg on the floor

Front 19

Port de Bras

Back 19

Carriage of the arms

Front 20

What are the fiver different fundamental movements of elevation?

Back 20

-both feet to both feet (temps leve saute)
-bot feet to one foot (sissonne)
-from one foot to both (assemble)
-(or leap)from one foot to the other foot (jete)
-(or hop) on one foot (tems leve)

Front 21

En Avant

Back 21

Forward

Front 22

Cou de pied

Back 22

neck of the foot

Front 23

Sus Sous

Back 23

over under

Front 24

Balance

Back 24

a rocking waltz step

Front 25

Battement Tendu

Back 25

Beating stretched

Front 26

Develop

Back 26

developed or unfolded
-cou de pied, retire, attitude, straight leg, tendu, close

Front 27

Arabesque

Back 27

Moorish ornament

Front 28

Pirouette

Back 28

Whirl or spn
-spot head, arms 3-1, supporting leg to eleve, working leg in retire poosition

Front 29

Grand Plie

Back 29

a large bending of the knees

Front 30

Spotting

Back 30

the gaze stays on a fixed point straight in front of the body as the turn begins the head then leads the tuen arriving back at point with body

Front 31

What does RICE stand for?

Back 31

Rest
Ice
Compreesion
Elevation

Front 32

Plie

Back 32

Bending movement of the legs

Front 33

Battement retire (passe)

Back 33

WIthdrawing of the leg

Front 34

Attidude

Back 34

got its name from a Statue of Mercury

Front 35

Coupe

Back 35

To cut

Front 36

Chaines

Back 36

Chains or links

Front 37

Reverence

Back 37

the end (bow ir curtsey)

Front 38

What are the three most fundamental exercises at barre?

Back 38

Plie, Eleve, Battement Tendu

They are movements of the legs, bending and straightening the knees, raisung adn lowering heels and stretching foot along floor to a point position before returning to a closed position

Front 39

Chasse

Back 39

chased

Front 40

En Bas

Back 40

Low

Front 41

In a Chaine what position are the arms and legs in?

Back 41

Arm in either en bas or en avant

legs are in first position

Front 42

Soutenu

Back 42

Sustained

Front 43

Croise

Back 43

Crossed

Front 44

En haut

Back 44

high

Front 45

Assemble

Back 45

Assembled or jioned together

Front 46

A la quatrieme

Back 46

to the fourth

Front 47

Jete

Back 47

throw

Front 48

Saute

Back 48

Jumped

Front 49

Direction of extention

Back 49

devant (front)
a la second (side)
derriere (back)

Front 50

Echappe Saut

Back 50

Escaped jump

Front 51

hy did the french become the language of Ballet?

Back 51

Because ballet was first natured in the royal courts and acedemics of france

Front 52

A la second

Back 52

to the second

Front 53

Temps Leve

Back 53

time raised