Ballet Terminology Intermediate

Glissade

• to cut

• to glide

• to bend

• to melt

Plie

• to bend

• to stretch

• to disengage

• to cut

Pique

• to cut

• to stretch

• to prick

• to bend

Port de bras means:

• Carriage of the head
• Carriage of the fingers
• Carriage of the arms
• Carriage of the eyes

Turn out measures the ability of the dancer to turn his/her feet and legs out from what part of the body? 

• Waist
• Hips
• Knees
• All of the above

When performing a GRAND BATTEMENT, one should think that the leg is __________________ the air as this is what is translates to in English.

• hitting
• slicing
• circling
• beating

In ARABESQUE, dancers should feel a long and flowing line from their __________ to their ____________.

• finger, knee
• finger, big toe
• wrist, big toe
• nose, knee

The definition of DEGAGÉ is to ______________.

• disengage
• develop
• disintegrate
• distance

Considering PLIÉ:

• Knees are bent
• Heels are on the ground
• Knees are over the 2nd toe
• All of the above

PASSÉ means to ________________.

• pass
• retire
• flamingo
• bend the knee in an isosceles triangle