Unit 3 Materials

Attitude

• Circling of the leg on the floor or in the air.

• gliding movement in ballet in which the dancers transfers body weight quickly from foot to foot, usually on the balls of the feet in Demi-pointe or in full pointe. Meaning small quick steps.

• passed, or to pass through.

  Plié: to bend.

• a position on one leg with the other lifted in the back, the knee bent at an angle of 90 degrees and well turned out so that the knee is higher than the foot

Balance

• meaning to strike, or struck.

• an alternating balance step, shifting the weight from one foot to the other.

• gliding movement in ballet in which the dancers transfers body weight quickly from foot to foot, usually on the balls of the feet in Demi-pointe or in full pointe. Meaning small quick steps.

• carriage of the arms.

Arabesque

• a posture in which the body is supported one one leg, with the other leg extended horizontally backward.

• a position on one leg with the other lifted in the back, the knee bent at an angle of 90 degrees and well turned out so that the knee is higher than the foot

• an alternating balance step, shifting the weight from one foot to the other.

• Meaning to beat. There are two types and can be done petite or grande.

Battement

• disengaged, or disengaging step.

• Meaning to beat. There are two types and can be done petite or grande.

• Circling of the leg on the floor or in the air.

• disengaged, or disengaging step. to rise. (Depending on the technical method, this dance step may be done smoothly or with a little spring).

Rond de jambe (a terre &en I'air)

• disengaged, or disengaging step.

• Circling of the leg on the floor or in the air.

• a step meaning to melt, or sink down. Frappe: meaning to strike, or struck.

• gliding movement in ballet in which the dancers transfers body weight quickly from foot to foot, usually on the balls of the feet in Demi-pointe or in full pointe. Meaning small quick steps.

Bourree

• passed, or to pass through.

• gliding movement in ballet in which the dancers transfers body weight quickly from foot to foot, usually on the balls of the feet in Demi-pointe or in full pointe. Meaning small quick steps.

• a posture in which the body is supported one one leg, with the other leg extended horizontally backward.

• a position on one leg with the other lifted in the back, the knee bent at an angle of 90 degrees and well turned out so that the knee is higher than the foot

Degage

• disengaged, or disengaging step.

• Meaning to beat. There are two types and can be done petite or grande.

• gliding movement in ballet in which the dancers transfers body weight quickly from foot to foot, usually on the balls of the feet in Demi-pointe or in full pointe. Meaning small quick steps.

• carriage of the arms.

Fondu

• a step meaning to melt, or sink down.

• meaning the step of a horse.

• to rise. (Depending on the technical method, this dance step may be done smoothly or with a little spring).

• cheval: meaning the step of a horse. Passe: passed, or to pass through.

  Plié: to bend.

pas de cheval

• carriage of the arms.

• meaning the step of a horse.

• to bend.

• disengaged, or disengaging step.

passe

• passed, or to pass through.

• to bend

• Meaning to beat. There are two types and can be done petite or grande.

• disengaged, or disengaging step.