Choreographic Devices
Ballet Vocabulary
Dance Elements
Artistic Intention
Ballet Vocabulary
100

The opposite

Contrast

100

The stretch and point

To brush

Tendu

100

Personal vs General

Formations

Levels

Pathways

Space


100

First part of your Artistic Intention

The what

100

6 Ballet Position

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6h

200

Repeating steps

Repititon

200

The jump with legs together

Saute

200

Speed

Rhythm 

Time

200

Last part of your Artistic Intention

Any other details you want the audience to know

200

To pass up or down your leg

Passe

300

Changing the order of your step

Fragmentation

300

To bend

Pile

300

Quality Of Movements

Emotions 

Intentions

Energy

300

Second part of your Artistic Intention

The Why

300

To Rise on toes

Releve

400

Reversing your dance steps

Retrograde

400

To jump open 

then jump close

Echappe

400

Shapes,

Zones, 

Body Parts

Body


400

How should you write a Artistic Intent?

What format?

Paragraph form 

400

To jump and turn in the air

Tour en L'air

500

One person after the other

 Dancers are doing the same steps but at different times.

Canon

500

Movements staying still

Movements that travel

Action


500

Third part of your Artistic Intention

The How