1.Adagio: Any dance to slow music.

2.Allegro: a dance with a fast tempo.

3.Balance: A step that rocks from one foot to another.

4.Ballo: Italian dances to their music in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

5.Ballroom Dances: Social dances usually with couples including the tango, jitterbug and fox trot.

6.Basic Movement: In a ballroom dance a move that remains constant.

7.Battement: a beating movement from the legs.

8.Cakewalk: An African American dance in which couples compete in high kicks and fast steps.

9.Cambre: In ballet, a bend from the waist to the back or the side.

10.Cancan: A social dance in 1844 and was a raucous dance performed in French halls.

11.Country Dance: An English in which dancers form two facing lines.

12.Fifth Position: Heel in front foot touching toe of back foot.

13.First Position: when heels are touching.

14.Five Positions: In dance there are five basic positions formed by the feet.

15.Flameco: A gypsy dance created in India.

16.Fondu: In ballet a lowering of the body by bending the knee.

17.Fourth Position: when one foot in front of another but apart.

18.Fox Trot: A social dance in duple time.

19.Jitterbug:A social dance created in the 1930’s.

20.Kabuki: A Japanese dram dance with stylized narrative movements.

21.Penche: Leaning forward in ballet.

22.Point: A position on the tip of the toes.

23.Polka: A folkdance that came popular in the ballroom in the mid nineteenth century.

24. Recital: when a group or solo performs.

25.Rhythmic Patterns: The basic moves and sounds that tap dancers make on their shoes.

26.Routine: the basic movements or steps that make up a performance.

27.Second Position: feet in straight-line feet apart.

28.Spotting: to keep your eyes in one place for so long when you turn to avoid dizziness.

29.Square Dance: A folk dance with a number of couples forming squares and the dance has a caller.

30.Tango: a social dance created in Spain.

31. Third Position: when one foot in front of another.

32.Variation: A solo performance in ballet.

33. Waltz: A social dance that became widely popular in the nineteenth century.

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