Terminology Flashcards

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Plié

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To bend

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Demi plié

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Half bend/small bend

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Tendu

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To stretch

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Devant

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To the front

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Jeté

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To throw

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Á la seconde

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To the side

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Choreography

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The art of making dances

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Improvisation

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Acting like something else, making it up in the moment

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Enface

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Facing the front

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Port de bras

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Carriage of the arms

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Retiré

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To draw up

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Decote

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Moving sideways

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Devante

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To the front

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Allegro

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Quickly fast

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En avant

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Moving foreword

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Derrie’re

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To the back

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En arriéré

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Moving backwards

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Coupé

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To cut

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Pas de chat

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Step of the cat

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Assemble

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To assemble

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Pas de bourrée

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Stamp step

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Arabesque

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The longest most straight line in ballet.

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Sissone

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A scissor like movement

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Fermée

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Closed

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Ouverte

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Open

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Pirouette

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To turn

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Tour en l’air

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Turn in the air

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Chaînées

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Chains or links

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Souten

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Support or to sustain

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Soubresaut

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Sudden spring

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Ballon

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Bounce

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Grand jeté

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Grand leap

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Corps de ballet

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The dancers in a ballet who aren’t soloists.

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Tutu

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The tutu is a short classical ballet skirt made of many layers of tarlatan or net.

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