Pas de basque "step of the Basques". Halfway between a step and a leap, taken on the floor ( glissé ) or with a jump ( sauté ); ...

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Battement en cloche, grand [grahn bat-MAHN ahn klawsh] Large battement like a bell. A term of the French School and the Cecchetti method...

Passé As a position passé means when a foot is placed near, on, or below the other knee. As a movement passé refers to the working foot ...

Chassé [sha-SAY] Chased. A step in which one foot literally chases the other foot out of its position; done in a series.

Glissade [glee-SAD] Glide. A traveling step executed by gliding the working foot from the fifth position in the required direction, the othe...

Step to connect; to thicken; a movement where the legs transfer the weight of the body from one leg to the other - it can be done front, sid...

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Sous-sus ["under-over"] (or sus-sous ["over-under"]). A relevé in a tight fifth position with one foot almost on top of ...

Sickling This term is used for a fault in which the dancer turns his or her foot in from the ankle, thereby breaking the straight line of th...