Beautiful Ballet

Ballet is a kind of dance that is as graceful as a bird.  You can learn all kinds of positions, moves, and jumps. The 5 basic positions are 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th. One of my favorite moves is an attitude. Attitude is when the working leg is lifted in the air to the front, side or to the back. The leg in the air is bent in a 90-degree angle and most often turned out so that the knee is higher than the foot. My other favorite move is an arabesque. An arabesque is a body position in which a dancer stands on one leg with the other leg turned out and extended behind the body and with both legs held straight.  One of the jumps that we do is called a pas de chat. Pas de chat is a ballet step, translated as ‘step of a cat’. It is a sideways jump, with both legs brought up as high as possible whilst bent, ‘retiré’. It is one of many of the many standard steps in classical ballet, although not limited to just classical ballet.

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