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Dance Glossary

Providing tools to help you succeed in All Star

Rules

  • Airborne
  • Airborne Hip Over Head Rotation
  • Axis Rotation
  • Blind Landing*
  • Category*
  • Connected/Consecutive Skills
  • Contact
  • Dance Lift
  • Dismount*
  • Division*
  • Drop
  • Elevated
  • Executing Dancer*
  • Full Twisting*
  • Hands-Free Poms*
  • Head Level
  • Hip Level
  • Hip Over Head Rotation*
  • Inversion/Inverted
  • Inverted Skills
  • Partnering
  • Perpendicular Inversion*
  • Prone
  • Prop
  • Release*
  • Shoulder Inversion*
  • Shoulder Level
  • Spotter*
  • Standing Prop*
  • Supine
  • Supporting Dancer
  • Supporting Leg
  • Tumbling
  • Vertical Axis*
  • Vertical Inversion
  • Working Leg

Skills

  • Aerial Cartwheel
  • Axel
  • Back Handspring
  • Back Walkover
  • Backward Roll
  • Calypso
  • Cartwheel
  • Chassé
  • Coupé
  • Développé
  • Dive Roll
  • Forward Roll
  • Fouetté
  • Fouetté à la Seconde
  • Front Aerial
  • Front Walkover
  • Glissade
  • Handstand
  • Headspring*
  • Headstand
  • Illusion*
  • Jeté
  • Kick*
  • Kip Up
  • Leap
  • Passé
  • Pencil Turn*
  • Pirouette
  • Plié
  • Relevé
  • Round Off
  • Shushunova
  • Stationary Turn*
  • Toe Touch
  • Tour Jeté
  • Windmill

* indicates either the term does not have a video or the video uses an outdated definition, but the example is still useful.

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