enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Split leap - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_leap

    An acro dancer performing a straddle split leap. A split leap or split jump is a sequence of body movements in which a person assumes a split position after leaping or jumping from the floor, respectively, while still in the air. Split leaps and split jumps are both found in various genres of dance including acro, ballet and jazz dance, and in ...

  3. Classical ballet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_ballet

    When performing jumps and leaps, classical ballet dancers strive to exhibit ballon, the appearance of briefly floating in the air. Pointe technique is the part of ballet technique that concerns pointe work, in which a ballet dancer supports all body weight on the tips of fully extended feet on specially designed and handcrafted pointe shoes. In ...

  4. Ballet technique - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballet_technique

    Ballet technique is also used to exhibit ballon, the appearance of gravity-defying lightness, during leaps. Pointe technique is the part of ballet technique concerned with dancing on the tips of fully extended feet. The core techniques of ballet are common throughout the world, though there are minor variations among the different styles of ballet.

  5. Figures of Argentine tango - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figures_of_Argentine_tango

    Styles of dance are not predefined by the embrace itself and many figures of tango salon style are danced in an open embrace, it is also possible to dance tango nuevo in close V-shape embrace. The milonguero (apilado) style is an exception; its close embrace without V-shape and emphasis on maintaining this embrace throughout the dance ...

  6. Category:Ballet in Spain - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ballet_in_Spain

    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Spanish ballet dancers (2 C, 1 P)

  7. Glossary of ballet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_ballet

    A Dictionary of Ballet Terms (3rd revised ed.). New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80094-2. OCLC 4515340. Minden, Eliza Gaynor (2005). The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-6407-X. OCLC 58831597. Glossary of Dance Terms. New York: New York City Ballet ...

  8. The Three-Cornered Hat - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Cornered_Hat

    The Three-Cornered Hat (Spanish: El sombrero de tres picos or Le tricorne) is a ballet choreographed by Léonide Massine to music by Manuel de Falla.Commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev, the ballet premiered in 1919.

  9. Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Anne_de_Cupis_de_Camargo

    1880 image of de Camargo. Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo (15 April 1710 in Brussels – 28 April 1770 in Paris), sometimes known simply as La Camargo, was a French dancer.The first woman to execute the entrechat quatre, Camargo was also allegedly responsible for two innovations in ballet as she was one of the first dancers to wear slippers instead of heeled shoes, and, while there is no ...