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Right Shoulder
Pole is vertical
left hand level with your belly button,
right hand slightly above your head.
The pole should be infront of your nose.
Spins
Drop Spins
Begin at right shoulder, left hand on the bottom of the pole at your waist - right hand just above your head.
The pole is straight up and down.
count 1
You release your left hand and the silk drops counter clockwise and you regrab with your left hand thumb down palm away
from you in the silk. (both thumbs are pointing down)
Count 2
You continue the counter clockwise motion and bring the pole back verticle with the silk up - re-grab with your right
hand (both thumbs are pointing up)
Dance Terms
Plie (plee-aye)- a bending motion with the knees. Demi plie is only half way down (comfortable), Grand plie is the biggest
bend you can do without falling down. In exercises or warm-ups we will often do 2 demi plies (down 2 counts, up 2, repeat)
and 1 grand plie (down 4, up 4). Knees must go out over your toes as you bend. Plie helps you get off the ground for jumps.
In grande plie it is important to keep back straight and posture good so that you don’t fall over.
Tendu (tun-doo)- straighten your leg and point your foot (turned out), heel is off the ground. Tendus are normally kept
on the floor. In an exercise we would practice tenduing in front, to the side and to the back. In guard work, tendu might
describe a pose for example, if your right knee is bent and your left leg is straight, you might be told to tendu left and
plie right.
Turn-out- this describes how much your feet are angling out from parallel. Make sure that your knees are turned out as
well so that the knees are always over the toes. If as you plie you look down, if you can’t see your toes beneath
you knees, your knees are in the right position. You can show turnout in any position or movement, such as a turned out walk
like our jazz walks, where the arch of you foot leads, vs the top of your foot.
releve (rel-uh-vay)- standing on your toes (not en point as if you were in ballet shoes, but on your metatarsal- the fleshy
part between your toes and the arch of your foot).
Passé (poss-ay)- position where the toe of one foot is pointed against the knee of the other leg. You can be in passé
turned out (bent leg is perpendicular to standing leg) or turned-in or parallel (2 terms for the same thing, bent leg is parallel
to the standing leg)
Coupe (coupe-ay)- same as passé, only toe of bent leg is behind ankle of standing leg. Often the standing leg is bent
softly (called fondue- think melting) in coupe.
Battement (bot-ma)- kick with leg brushing off ground and remaining straight.
Develope (dev-luv-pay)- kick where knee is brought up first, then leg is straightened.
Jete (jet-ay)- a jump.
Tour- turn. A tour jete is a turning jump where one leg battements up, then you jump and turn while the other leg comes
up. If you do the same thing without the 2nd leg coming up it is called a foute (fwa-tay) jump (jete).
Chaine (sha-nay)- a simple turn where both feet stay on the ground. One usually travels during this turn. From a prep-position
(one leg is tendu to the front), the front leg rond de jambe out to the side and you turn on that foot, the back foot making
a tiny circle around the front as you turn. They can be linked together, thus chaine is french for chain.
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