Steps
Ball Change: Syncopated weight shift onto the ball of the rear foot and back to the flat front foot
(Can be done as a traveling step).
Chassé: Step together step.
Cut: Quick displacement of one standing leg by the other while remaining on the same spot.
Fan kick: A kick in which the working leg makes a sweeping arc in front of the body.
Fondue: A bending of one's standing leg all the way from relevé to plié.
Grapevine: A series of steps that move sideways with a side, back, side, front pattern.
Hitchkick: A scissor-like movement where one leg is in the air while the other leg kicks up to pass it.
Isolations: Movement of only one part of the body.
Jazz walk: Many varieties but generally a turned out low walk using shoulder opposition.
Jazz pas de bourree: A back-side-front three step move in the floor pattern of an isosceles triangle.
Jazz square: A crossed front-back-back-front four step move in the floor pattern of a square.
Mambo: A front/back, back/front step with hips swiveling in a figure 8.
Piqué: A step onto half toe with a straight leg from a plié standing leg.
Relevé: A lift onto the toes.
Step: Transferring weight fully onto a foot.
Touch: A placement of the working toe or foot on the floor without shifting weight to it.
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