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Plié                     

Dégagé                

Port de bras       

Bras bas              

Sauté                   

Relevé                 

Posé                     

Temps levé        

Demi                    

Battment            

Tendu                 

Devant              

Derrière          

Echappé              

Petit                  

Grande          

Jeté                   

En Croix             

En Avant           

En Arrière               Glissade              

Changement      

Assemblé            

En Dehors        

En Dedans          

Coupé                

À Terre               

 

Knee bend

To point

Carriage of the arms

Resting position

To spring

To rise

To step

Hop

Half

To beat

To stretch

In front

At the back

To escape

Small

Big

To throw

In the shape of a cross

Forward

Backwards

To glide

To change

To assemble

Moving outwards

Moving inwards

To cut

On the ground

En L'Air                    

Croise                        

Ouvert                     

Arabesque                    

Chassé                        

Retiré                      

Passé                            

Pas de chat              

Pas de basque              

Pas de bourrée          

Frappé                           

Développé                     

Ronde de jambe           

Sissone                        

Adage                         

Sur le coup de pied     

En face                       

Epaulement                 

Soutenu                     

En Tournant             

Pirrouette                 

Balancé                  

Balloné                      

Battu                                     

Fermé                            

Fouetté                      

Demi Detourné        

Le smack on the head

Echappé Batu:

Fermé                          

Ouvert                       

Royale                        

 

Glissades:

Devant                       

Derrière                    

Over                             

Under                          

 

Pas de bourrée:

Devant                        

Derrière                      

*Over                         

*Under                        

*N.B.                           

 

 

Attitude                     

De Coté                      

 

Beats on the way in

Beats on the way out

Beats fermé and ouvert

 

 

Front foot first, stays front

Back foot first, stays back

Back foot first, closes front

Back foot first, closes at back

 

 

Front foot first, closes front

Back foot first, closes at back

Back foot first, passes front, closes at back (front, side, behind)

Front foot first, passes behind, closes in front (behind, side, front)

An OVER may be shown starting with the front foot and An UNDER starting with the back foot. The same rules of placing, however, still apply.

 

To strike a pose

To the side

Ballet Vocabulary

In the air

Crossed

Open

Side picture

To slide

To draw up

To pass

Step of the cat

Step of the peasant

Little running steps

To strike

To develope / unfold

Round of the leg

Scissors

Slow movement

On the neck of the foot

Facing front

Shoulders

Sustained

Turning

Spin

Balanced

Bounce

Beat

To close

To whip

Half turn

To fail an exam

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