The term libretto is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as Mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or the story line of a ballet.

* Neoclassical ballet, a term describing the ballet style which uses traditional ballet vocabulary, but is generally more expansive than the classical structure allowed

* Plié, a ballet term that has a somewhat similar pronunciation

Carousel was also the term for large " horse ballet " or Musical Ride spectacles mounted as part of the court festivities for special occasions such as royal weddings or state visits from the mid-16th century onwards, which gradually replaced serious jousting, although non-combat competitions such as the ring-tilt lasted until the 18th century.

Although this kind of dancing can be seen, for instance, in ballet, this term is usually applied to various forms of social dance, ballroom dance, folk dance, and similar forms.

Therefore in some dances some prefer to use this term according to its usage in ballet, based on the footwork, rather than arm style.

Ballabile ( from the Italian Ballabile meaning " danceable ") In ballet the term refers to a dance performed by the corps de ballet.

Since the 1960s, however, the term has lost this honorific aspect and is applied generally to women who are ballet dancers.

The official term for a male ballet dancer.

In ballet, the term Entrée has two meanings:

In ballet, the term pas often refers to a combination of steps which make up a dance ( typically, in dance forms such as jazz, hip-hop, tap, etc., this is called a routine ).

Ballet uses the term corps de ballet.

The term " ballet " is sometimes used to refer to dance styles in any culture's classical tradition, mainly in reference to classical styles of dance performed in parts of Asia.

During the 17th and 18th century, the term implied incidental aspects of an entertainment ( usually involving singing and dancing ) that might be inserted in an opera or ballet or other stage performance.

The term is also sometimes used for a ballet suite of loosely-connected dances.

The term is used in music to refer generally to a work evocative of pastoral or rural life such as Edward MacDowell's Forest Idylls, and more specifically to a kind of French courtly entertainment ( divertissement ) of the baroque era where a pastoral poem was set to music, accompanied by ballet and singing.

Blocking is a theatre term which refers to the precise movement and positioning of actors on a stage in order to facilitate the performance of a play, ballet, film or opera.

Travesti ( literally " disguised ") is a theatrical term referring to the portrayal of a character in an opera, play, or ballet by a performer of the opposite sex.

It is popular for a hero and heroine to dance and sing a pas de deux ( a French ballet term, meaning " dance of two ") in beautiful natural surroundings or architecturally grand settings, referred to as a " picturisation ".

This can also be known as the pas de quatre this term used by the French to re-create a more visual ballet.

Valerie Sutton in a ballet pose, with the corresponding DanceWriting representation

President George W. Bush and Laura Bush pose with the Kennedy Center honorees, from left to right, actress Julie Harris, actor Robert Redford, singer Tina Turner, ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell and singer Tony Bennett on December 4, 2005, during the reception in the Blue Room at the White House.

or the Love For Three Oranges ( gay as it is ) with the wonderful, imaginative, colorful, and subtle tenderness of the magnificent ballet, The Stone Flower.

The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

that its persistent use by ballet companies of the Soviet regime indicates that that old spirit is just as stultifying alive today as it ever was ; ;

It is a kind of friendliness and frankness of address toward the audience which we have been led to believe was peculiar to the American ballet.

Oh-the-pain-of-it, that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to the stage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.

This is all the more remarkable because the Kirov is to ballet what Senator Goldwater is to American politics.

But, obviously, at least some things have changed for the better in Russia so far as the ballet is concerned.

But barring a miracle, and don't hold your breath for it, Chicago will not see the Leningrad-Kirov Ballet, which stems from the ballet cradle of the Maryinsky and is one of the great companies of the world.

Under the surface of the wide range of folk movements is apparent a sound technical ballet training, and an equally professional sense of performing.

The ballet work is on the nose, especially in the opening number by `` The New Ashmolean Marching Society and Students' Conservatory Band '', along with a fiery and sultry Brazilian fantasia later.

This scene is a `` white ballet '' in which a lovelorn hero searches for his departed love's spirit among twenty-eight extraordinarily beautiful `` shadows '' who can all dance like nothing human -- which, of course, is altogether fitting.

the Briton Stirling Moss, one of the greatest virtuosi of all time, believes that ultra-fast road-circuit driving is an art form related to ballet.

He described the piece as a " rhapsodic ballet " because it was written freely and is more modern than his previous works.

The opera is set during the First Crusade and it features a dramatic mix of ballet, aria, ensemble and choral writing combining theatricality, scenic splendor and high emotionalism.

The great innovations in dance in the 17th century originated at the French court under Louis XIV, and it is here that we see the first clear stylistic ancestor of classical ballet.

Diana is also a character in the 1876 Léo Delibes ballet Sylvia.

These include the half toe loop ( ballet jump ), half loop, half flip, walley jump, split jump ( there are two kinds of split jump, Russian split, performed in a position that is similar to that of a straddle split and ladies split performed in the position of the more traditional split, facing the direction of your front leg ), waltz jump, inside Axel, and one-foot Axel.

The triceps surae is the primary plantar flexor and its strength becomes most obvious during ballet dancing.

An important plantar flexor, it is crucial for ballet dancing.

* Finally, the theatrical presentation of flamenco is now an extended and sophisticated performance in its own right, comparable to a ballet, by such ensembles as the Maria Pagès Company.

His many innovations transformed the Hollywood musical film, and he is credited with almost single-handedly making the ballet form commercially acceptable to film audiences.