Dance vocabulary lists 1 and 2

What is this step?

• tendu'

• releve'

• plie'

• passe'

What position is this?

• 1st

• 2nd

• 4th

• 5th

What is this movement?

• Plie'

• Tendu'

• Releve'

• Battement

What is this step?

• Tendu'

• Releve'

• Degage'

• Plie'

What is this step?

• Plie'

• passe'

• chasse'

• chainne'

What step means "to chase" and is similar to a gallop? We use this step to travel across the floor.

• Attitude

• chasse'

• chainne'

• pirouette

When you rotate your legs outward from your hips.

• parallell

• turnout

• pirouette

• grande jete'

a turn on one leg that does not travel

• chainne'

• pirouette

• turn out

• grande jete

A large leap across the floor.

• chasse'

• battement

• grand jete'

• tendu'

A step that rocks from the back foot to the front foot

• degage

• battement

• ball change

• pas de bourre