Our beautiful ballerina Christmas ornament is 6.5 inches long, including the 3 inch gold cord hanging loop. The ballerina is standing with one arm over her head and one toe pointed. She is wearing a pink ballerina costume and holding a bouquet of red roses. Her costume has short, ruffled puff sleeves, a tight fighting bodice with iridescent glitter highlights across the front of the bodice and a short ruffled skirt with iridescent glitter highlights. She also has pink ballerina slippers and a crown of pink roses around her bun.
Terms in Ballet Dancing.
- Adagio.
- Adagio is a series of slow, sustained movements in a ballet lesson to develop balance, line and grace. It is also a slow dance in which the female partner performs difficult feats of balancing.
- Allegro.
- Allegro is a series of quick, lively movements.
- Arabesque.
- Arabesque is a position in which the dancer stands on one leg, bends forward from the hip and extends the other leg backward.
- Attitude.
- Attitude is a position with one arm curved overhead and the leg extended backward and bent slightly upward at the knee.
- Ballerina.
- A ballerina is a female ballet dancer. Prima ballerina is the principal dancer of a ballet company.
- Barre.
- Barre is a round wooden or metal rod that may be attached to a studio wall or free standing and portable. Dancers use the barre for support during ballet exercises.
- Battement.
- Battement is a movement lifting the leg high, as in a Grand Battement, or low, as in a Petit Battement.
- Center Work.
- Center Work is the series of exercises performed in the second half of a class, without the support of a barre.
- Choreography.
- Choreography is the arranged movements that make up a ballet. The creator of the movements is a choreographer.
- Corp de Ballet.
- The corps de ballet is the unit of the dancers who dance in groups, in contrast to the soloists.
- Danseur.
- A danseur is a male dancer.
- Divertissement.
- Divertissement is a short ballet without a plot. It may also be a sequence of two or more special dances in a ballet.
- Elevation.
- Elevation is the height a dancer is capable of attaining in springing from the ground.
- Entrechat.
- Entrechat is a leap in which the legs cross each other rapidly in the air.
- Fouette.
- Fouette is a turn executed with a whipping movement of the free leg.
- Glissade.
- Glissade is a sliding step.
- Jete.
- Jete is a leap from one foot to the other.
- Libretto.
- Libretto is the story or plot of a ballet.