Dance Preview Vocabulary Flashcards
Dance Terms
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Adage, Adagio
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at ease or leisure
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Air, en l’
A
in the air
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Allegro
A
brisk, lively
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Arabesque
A
Basic pose, from Moorish ornament
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Balance
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Rocking Step
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Battement
A
Beating
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Body Roll
A
Rolling Movement through the torso
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Cambre
A
arched
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Chaine Tour
A
Chain of turns
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Changement
A
Change
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Chassé
A
Chased
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Choreography
A
the creation and composition of dances
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coupé
A
cut, cutting
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Degagé
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Disengaged
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Demi
A
Half
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Developpé
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Developped
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Echappes
A
To Escape
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Eleve
A
To rise
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Flex
A
toes pointed upward toward the body
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Fouette
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Whipped
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Grand, grande
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Big or large
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Isolation
A
the ability to hold part of the body still while moving another one
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Passe
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Passed
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Parallel
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toes are pointed forward
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Pique
pricked or to prick
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Pirouette
to whirl or spin
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Plie
To Bend
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Point
Toes pointed downward away from body
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Port de Bras
Carriage of the arms
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Releve
Raised
31
Reverence
Bow, reverence, curtsey
32
Roll Down
a sequential curving of the vertabrae (spine). Starting at the top of the skull and ending with the pelvis upside down.
33
Saute
To jump or jumping
34
Seconde, a la
to the second (side)
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Soloist
solo, featured dancer
36
Temps leve
time raised, raising movement
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Tendu, tendue
Stretched
38
Terre, a
On the ground
39
Turn Out
Outward rotation of the legs from the hip sockets
40
Two Beat Swing
Modern Dance movement where h=the body swings from downward rebounding up into a flat/curved position/jump and then swings upward to the starting position.
