Dance Vocabulary - 2

Battement

• Arms low

• Beating

• Change

• Lively

Grand Battement

• Chase

• Rocking

• Big Beating

• Whirl of Spin

Grand Jete

• Step

• Bending

• Big throw

• Pass

.Développés

• Struck

• Glide

• To unfold

• Pricked

Adagio

• At ease, Leisure

• Assemble, Joined together

• Arms Low

• Struck

Retiré

• Turn

• Sustained

• Retired, withdrawn

• Time

Pas de Chat

• Pricked

• Step of The Cat

• Bend

• Poised

Passés

• Pass

• Whirl or spin

• In the air

• Little

En l’ air

• On the ground

• Linking

• In the air

• Step

Arabesque

• In the air

• Longest line the body can make from fingertip to toes

• Change

• In the middle or centre