Spring Dance final 2024

If you are traveling from upstage right to down stage left, what fixed point numbers would you use in the Cecchetti system?

IEA

What would be the corner number for upstage left in the Vaganova system of fixed points?

3

What is the final exercise in ballet class

Bow or curtsy

Echappe’

Escape

Developpe

To unfold

Cou-de-pie

Neck of the foot

Frappe’

To strike

‘Terre

On the ground

Battement

Beating

Pique

To prick

Grande jete

Big step

Renverse

Reversed

Rond de jambe

Circle of the leg on the ground

What are the curtains that create the entrance and exit area called?

Legs

What is the area of the stage from which dancers make their entrances and exits?

Wings

What is the area of the stage where the musicians sit called

Pit

Royale

Royal; term for a changement battu

Retire

Time withdrawn

If the dancer is standing in epaule with the right foot extended out, what corner in the Cecchetti method of fix points would the dancers foot be pointing to?

I

En arriere

Moving backward

Failli

Giving away step

Brise

Step broken; breaking step

Allonge

Extended

Serre

Close

En avant

Moving forward

Soutenu

Sustained

How is Rond de jambe a terre executed

One leg performs a series of semi-circular movement on the ground

Couru

Running

Ballotte

Tossed step

En cloche

Like a bell

Dessous

Under

A la quarieme devant

To the fourth back

Elance

Darting

Allegro

Light and lively

Ferme

Closed

Temps leve

Time raised

Grand battement

Big beating

Coupe

Cutting

Cecchetti school 5th en haut

French port de bras 5th

Vaganova port de bras 3rd

Cecchetti port de bras 4th en avant

French port de bras 3rd position

Cecchetti port de bras 5th position en avant

French school 1st

Body position efface derrière

Body position croise devant

Body position epaule

French, Italian, Russian port de bras 2nd

Russian school preparatory

French port de bras bras au repos

1st arabesque

2nd arabesque