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LINDY HOP, (balboa) , shag, blues, tap dance,
El Ballroom de concurs de dues categories:
- Standard/Smooth: Waltz, Viennese Waltz, Tango, Foxtrot, Quickstep
- Latin/Rhythm: Pasodoble, Spanish bolero, Cuban bolero, Samba, Rhumba, Mambo, Cha Cha, East Coast Swing, Jive
Jazz Dance
Phyllis Eckler – Instructor
General Vocabulary
* Choreographer: A person who composes a dance
* Choreography: A dance composition
* Downbeat: An accented beat which begins a musical measure
* Downstage (Dwnst): Toward the front of the stage or room
* Floor pattern: A path followed during a movement combination
* Line of dance (LOD): For locomotor movement, moving or facing in a forward path
* Lyrical: Smooth, sustained movement
* Stage left (St. L.): The left side of the stage or room as one faces the audience or front
* Stage right (St. R.): The right side of the stage or room as one faces the audience or front
* Synchopated: a temporary displacement of the regular accent in music caused by stressing the upbeat
*Upstage (Upst.): Toward the back of the stage or room
* Where You Came From (WYCF): Opposite of Line of dance (see above). The moving or facing the direction from which you started.
*Upbeat: the unaccented mid-point between beats
Positions
* Contraction: Position or movement in which the center of the torso retreats
* First position parallel (1st pll): Feet about 8″ apart with toes facing front
* First position turned out (1st TO): Heels together, toes facing the diagonal (“letter V”)
* First position arms (Arms in 1st): Hands on the chest, elbows out to the sides
* Fifth position arms (Arms in 5th): Both arms straight up in a V
* Flexed: Feet and toes are retracted back and heels are pressed forward
* Forced arch: on ball of the foot with heel off the floor and knee bent
* Fourth position parallel (4th pll): Standing with one foot in front of the hips and one behind the hips with @ 10″ between them . Toes facing the front
* Fourth position turned out (4th TO): Standing with one foot in front of the hips and one behind the hips with @ 10″ between them with toes facing the diagonal
* Fourth position arms (Arms in 4th): One straight arm up and one arm to the side (the “up” arm determines if it is a right or left 4th position)
* Lunge: Position in either 2nd or 4th where only one knee is bent and the other straight
* On the walk: Starting position for locomotor movement. Back foot is lightly resting on the ball of the foot
* Parallel (pll): Stance where toes face forward
* Plié: A knee bend with careful alignment of the knees and torso
* Point: Feet are fully extended forward from the ankles
*Pretzel: A sitting position where one leg is crossed over the other and the bottom one is tucked in bent
* Relevé: A lift onto the toes
* Retiré or passé parallel: Position in which the toe of one leg touches the knee of the standing leg, knee cap faces forward
* Retiré or passé turned out: Position in which the toe of one leg touches the knee of the standing leg, knee cap faces side
* Second position parallel (2nd pll): Feet side by side @ 24″ apart, toes face forward
*Second position turned out (2nd TO): Feet side by side @ 24″ apart, toes face the corners
*Second position arms (Arms in 2nd): Arms to the side at just below shoulder height
* Standing leg: The weight bearing leg
* Third position arms (Arms in 3rd): One arm extended in front of the chest and one arm to the side (the “front” arm determines if it is a right or left 3rd position)
* Turnout (TO): The outward rotation of the feet and legs from the hips. Toes to the diagonal.
* Working leg: The non-load bearing leg
Steps
*Ball Change: Syncopated weight shift onto the ball of the rear foot and back to the flat front foot
(Can be done as a travelling step)
* Chassé: Step together step
*Cut: Quick displacement of one standing leg by the other while remaining on the same spot
*Fan kick: A kick in which the working leg makes a sweeping arc in front of the body
*Fondue: A bending of one’s standing leg all the way into plie
*Grapevine: A series of steps that move sideways with a side, back, side, front pattern
*Hitchkick: A scissor-like movement where one leg is in the air while the other leg kicks up to pass it
*Isolations: Movement of only one part of the body
*Jazz walk: Many varieties but generally a turned out low walk using shoulder opposition
*Jazz pas de bourree (Jazz PDB): A back-side-front three step move in the floor pattern of an isosceles triangle
*Jazz square: A crossed front-back-back-front four step move in the floor pattern of a square
*Mambo: A front/back, back/front step with hips swiveling in a figure 8
* Piqué: A step onto half toe with a straight leg from a plie standing leg
* Relevé: A lift onto the toes
*Step: Transferring weight fully onto a foot
*Touch: A placement of the working toe or foot on the floor without shifting weight to it
Turns
* Chainés: Consecutive half turns traveling and rotating in a single direction
* Inside turn: forwards turn; A turn toward the standing leg
* Outside turn: Backwards turn; A turn away from the standing leg
*Paddle turn: Several small pivot turns that take one 360 degrees
*Pencil turn: Pirouette with both legs straight
* Piqué turn: Inside turn which begins with a step onto half-toe with an already straight leg
* Pirouette: Turn on one leg that begins in plie and goes to releve from a plie
* Pivot turn: Half-Turn on two legs with weight transfer from one leg to the other ; Feet stay stationary but swivel
* Soutenu: Full-Turn on two legs which begins with legs crossed, legs unwind and wind up crossed the other way; Feet stay on the same spot but swivel
* Spotting: Focusing on one spot while turning to prevent dizziness
Jumps
* Chassé: Step one foot, together in the air, land on the other foot; A gallop or slide
* Hitchkick: Kicking one leg in the air while it is up there jumping off the other one to join it to the first and landing on the first leg
* Hop: Taking off from one foot and landing on the same one
* Jump: Taking off of two feet and landing on two feet
* Leap: A jump from one foot to the other foot usually with an opening of the legs in the air
* Skip: Alternating hops from one to the other or with steps in between