Technique
To bend
What is Plié?
All dancers performing the same movement at the same time.
What is Unison?
Performing a movement.
What is action?
How many dance principles did we learn
4
To stretch or extend.
What is Tendu?
To Glide
What is Glissade?
The timing of events on a human scale of music or silence that occur to the steps of the dance.
What is Rhythm?
The area covered by dance movement.
What is space?
A straight line from the knee- ankle- big toe, toes long and extended.
What is pointing the foot?
A series of vertebrae extending from the skull to the pelvis.
What is the spine?
A position where one toe is at the knee of the supporting leg, balancing on one leg.
What is Passé?
Repeating movement for emphasis or to gain interest.
What is Repetition?
The dancer's instrument of expression.
What is body?
You perform this using plié to suspend higher and land softer while pointing your feet.
What is jumps?
How many position of Port de bras are there?
5
Large Beat
What is Grand Battement?
Performing the same movement at different times.
What is Canon?
How long, short, fast or slow movement is.
What is time?
Transitioning the support of the body from two feet to one foot without a change of the pelvis.
What is shifting the weight?
The area of space occupied by the dancer’s body, the full reach movement.
What is Kinesphere?
A jump in which a dancer springs from one foot to land on the other with one leg forward of their body and the other stretched backward while in the air.
What is Grand Jeté?
Having spatial and sequence knowledge of the others dancing around you.
What is Ensemble Awareness?
The amount of force used to perform the movement?
What is energy?
Your head is the last to leave the focal point and the first to return to that point while performing this movement.
What is turns?
The process of adjusting the skeletal and muscular system the gravity to support effective functionality.
What is Alignment?