{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/dance-terms",
 "id": "dance-terms",
 "title": "Dance Terms",
 "category": "arts-music",
 "subject": "Dance",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8",
  "9-12",
  "adult"
 ],
 "description": "Ballet vocabulary, dance styles and movement words.",
 "tags": [
  "dance",
  "ballet",
  "styles"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Term",
 "backLabel": "Meaning",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Plie",
   "A bend of the knees (French: bent)",
   "plee-AY"
  ],
  [
   "Tendu",
   "A stretched foot sliding along the floor",
   "tahn-DOO"
  ],
  [
   "Releve",
   "A rise onto the balls of the feet or toes",
   "reh-leh-VAY"
  ],
  [
   "Pirouette",
   "A full turn on one foot",
   "peer-oo-ET"
  ],
  [
   "Arabesque",
   "A pose on one leg with the other extended behind",
   "air-uh-BESK"
  ],
  [
   "Jete",
   "A jump from one foot to the other",
   "zheh-TAY"
  ],
  [
   "Grand jete",
   "A big leap with legs split in the air"
  ],
  [
   "Chasse",
   "A gliding step in which one foot chases the other",
   "sha-SAY"
  ],
  [
   "Glissade",
   "A gliding step to travel",
   "glee-SAHD"
  ],
  [
   "Sauté",
   "A jump from two feet landing on two feet",
   "soh-TAY"
  ],
  [
   "Port de bras",
   "Movement of the arms"
  ],
  [
   "Battement",
   "A beating or kicking movement of the leg"
  ],
  [
   "Rond de jambe",
   "A circular movement of the leg"
  ],
  [
   "Fouette",
   "A whipping turn on one leg"
  ],
  [
   "Pas de deux",
   "A dance for two people"
  ],
  [
   "Corps de ballet",
   "The group of dancers who perform together"
  ],
  [
   "Prima ballerina",
   "The leading female dancer in a ballet company"
  ],
  [
   "Barre",
   "The rail dancers hold for warm-ups"
  ],
  [
   "En pointe",
   "Dancing on the tips of the toes in pointe shoes"
  ],
  [
   "Tutu",
   "A short stiff skirt worn by ballet dancers"
  ],
  [
   "First position",
   "Heels together, toes turned out"
  ],
  [
   "Fifth position",
   "Feet crossed tightly, one in front of the other"
  ],
  [
   "Choreography",
   "The planned steps and movements of a dance"
  ],
  [
   "Choreographer",
   "The person who creates a dance"
  ],
  [
   "Improvisation (dance)",
   "Dancing without planned steps"
  ],
  [
   "Ballet",
   "Classical dance that began in Italian and French courts"
  ],
  [
   "Tap dance",
   "Dance with metal taps on the shoes making rhythms"
  ],
  [
   "Jazz dance",
   "Lively dance with strong rhythm and isolations"
  ],
  [
   "Modern dance",
   "Dance style that broke from ballet rules, pioneered by Martha Graham"
  ],
  [
   "Contemporary dance",
   "Dance mixing ballet, modern and jazz"
  ],
  [
   "Hip-hop dance",
   "Street dance styles like popping and breaking"
  ],
  [
   "Breakdancing (breaking)",
   "Acrobatic hip-hop dance with floor moves and spins"
  ],
  [
   "Popping",
   "Quickly tightening muscles to jerk the body"
  ],
  [
   "Locking",
   "Hip-hop moves with quick stops and holds"
  ],
  [
   "Flamenco",
   "Spanish dance with stomping, clapping and guitar"
  ],
  [
   "Salsa",
   "Latin partner dance with Cuban roots"
  ],
  [
   "Tango",
   "Partner dance from Argentina and Uruguay"
  ],
  [
   "Waltz",
   "Graceful dance in three-beat time"
  ],
  [
   "Foxtrot",
   "Smooth ballroom dance with walking steps"
  ],
  [
   "Cha-cha",
   "Latin ballroom dance with a quick cha-cha-cha step"
  ],
  [
   "Square dance",
   "American folk dance with a caller"
  ],
  [
   "Line dance",
   "A dance where people stand in rows doing the same steps"
  ],
  [
   "Polka",
   "Lively dance in 2/4 time from Bohemia"
  ],
  [
   "Hula",
   "Hawaiian dance telling stories with hands and hips"
  ],
  [
   "Bharatanatyam",
   "Classical dance from southern India"
  ],
  [
   "Folk dance",
   "A traditional dance of a region or people"
  ],
  [
   "Ballroom dance",
   "Partner dances like waltz and foxtrot"
  ],
  [
   "Swing dance",
   "Jazz-era partner dance, including the Lindy Hop"
  ],
  [
   "Lindy Hop",
   "Swing dance from Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s"
  ],
  [
   "Irish step dance",
   "Dance with fast footwork and still arms"
  ],
  [
   "Cartwheel",
   "A sideways turn of the body on hands and feet"
  ],
  [
   "Isolation",
   "Moving only one part of the body"
  ],
  [
   "Level (dance)",
   "How high or low the dancer is: low, middle or high"
  ],
  [
   "Tempo (dance)",
   "The speed of the dance"
  ],
  [
   "Formation",
   "The arrangement of dancers on stage"
  ],
  [
   "Unison (dance)",
   "Dancers doing the same movement at the same time"
  ],
  [
   "Canon (dance)",
   "Dancers doing the same movement at different times"
  ],
  [
   "Locomotor movement",
   "Movement that travels across space, like walking, skipping, hopping"
  ],
  [
   "Non-locomotor movement",
   "Movement in place, like bending, twisting, stretching"
  ],
  [
   "Skip",
   "A step-hop pattern, moving forward"
  ],
  [
   "Gallop",
   "A step and a leap with the same foot leading"
  ],
  [
   "Leap",
   "A jump from one foot to the other"
  ],
  [
   "Hop",
   "Jump on one foot landing on the same foot"
  ],
  [
   "Martha Graham",
   "American modern dance pioneer"
  ],
  [
   "Alvin Ailey",
   "American choreographer who founded a dance theater in 1958"
  ],
  [
   "Misty Copeland",
   "American ballerina who became principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre in 2015"
  ],
  [
   "Rudolf Nureyev",
   "Russian ballet star, 1938 to 1993"
  ],
  [
   "Anna Pavlova",
   "Russian ballerina famed for The Dying Swan"
  ]
 ]
}