Modern
Terms
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- Alignment
- the placement of all the parts of the body in relationship to each other
- Succession
- sequential path of movement through the parts of the body
- Opposition
- a way of using the entire body to create the feeling of length and stretch in a movement, without tensing or gripping the muscles
- Fall
- the complete release of the muscles as the body, giving in to gravity, drops
- Suspension
- a prolonged high point
- Fall and Recovery
- is a synthesis resulting from the interaction of two opposites: a period of unbalance and a period of relative balance
- Plie
- bent, bending; a bending of the knee or knees
- Releve
- raised; a raising of the body on the balls of your feet
- Tendu
- stretched
- Degage
- disengaged or disengaging step
- Grand Battement
- Large battement; an exercise in which the working leg is raised from the hip into the air and brought down again, the accent being on the downward movement, both knees straight
- Contraction
- is the physical process of shortening the distance between the two ends of a muscle
- Locomotor Movement
- actions that take the body through space
- Axial Movement
- movements that occur on or around an axis; example of this is all the warm up exercises we do every week
- Change of Weight
- any shift of weight of the body from one member point of the body to another, as in a walking step, a rocking step, etc