Ballet Terminology

chains/links; rapid, traveling turns

• pirouette

• chaine

• soutenu

• pique turn

Write the term: to bend

(a)  

Choose the correct term

• degage

• attitude

• arabesque

• pique

Degage

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Write the term: step of bourree- 3 steps

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to glide- a jump traveling to the side starting and ending in 5th

• assemble

• jete

• sissone

• glissade

attitude

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chased; a gliding step where one foot chases the other

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The working leg in a developpe DOES NOT pass through:

• attitude

• releve

• passe

• coupe

step of the cat; jump beginning in 5th, the feet pass through passe one at a time and land in 5th

• pas de chat

• pas de cheval

• pas de bourree