Ballet Vocabulary

on the ground

• tendu

• second position

• en dehors

• e terre

Detourné

• to jump

• turned away

• to the side

• every direction, Front, side, back

to rise with a plié

• Elevè

• Relevè

• Tombè

• grand pliè

Soussus

• Toes in front

• to spring

• under over

• to sustain

small

• demi pliè

• soussus

• petite

• assemblè

Demi pliè

• small bend

• half bend

• big bend

• to bend the elbows

to rise (no pliè)

• soussus

• relevè

• elevè

• tendu

En Criox

• to separate

• to cross, all sides, front, side, back

• to the side

• to the front

Port De Bras

• preparatory position

• first position arms

• the carriage of the arms

• the carraige of the legs

to stretch

• arabesque

• tendu

• tondu

• pas de bourreè