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What does plier mean?
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To bend
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What does entendre mean?
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To stretch
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What does relever mean?
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To rise
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What does sauter mean?
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To leap
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What does elancer mean?
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To dart
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What does glisser mean?
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To glide
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What does tourner mean?
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To turn
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What is a pose with one leg stretched straight out to the back and one arm usually stretched out to the front?
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Arabesque
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What is the railing, about waist high, along the wall of a studio?
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The barre
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What is the generic term for various movements in which the leg is extended and then returned? Ex. it means "beating".
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Battement
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What is the name of the movement, in which the dancer slides the working foot out until only the toes are touching the floor; then slide it back? It also means "stretched beat".
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Battement tendu
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What is the name of the movement, in which the dancer turns fast on half or full point with leg in a tight first position, rotation a half on one foot and the other half on the other foot? Also done one after the other so they're "chained" together.
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Chaine turns
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What is the name of the movement, in which the dancer jumps straight up, starting from fifth position with one foot in front and landing in fifth position with the other foot in front? Also means "change of the feet"
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Changement or changement de pieds
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What is the position, where the foot is placed on the thinnest part of the calf just above the ankle?
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Sur le cou-de-pied
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What is the linking step in which the working foot displaces the supporting foot (cuts it away). It also means "to cut".
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Coupe
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