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Open to students in grades K - 12 throughout the continental United States.

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Effacé Devant and Coisé Devant

Here is an example from the American Ballet Theater on Effacé Devant

http://www.abt.org/education/dictionary/terms/efface.html

Here is an example of Coisé.

http://www.abt.org/education/dictionary/index.html

*Here is a link that will show you how to get the accent marks for your French words! http://french.about.com/od/writing/ss/typeaccents_7.htm

Check out The Ballerina Project - On Facebook

I stumbled across The Ballet Project on facebook and thought I would pass it on:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=376477493242

Interesting Ballet Pictures shot in NYC, thought you might enjoy looking at them :)

Glissade Jete - Visual Definition

Glissade Jete -

I found this video on youtube that I think will be a helpful review for our glissades and our jetes.
Notice the position of the dancers arms in this video. Glissade arms are in 2nd position. Notice the arms for jete as they alternate and depend on which leg is your standing leg. Also notice how clean her moves are! She ends in a fifth position after every glissade jete.

Below is a detailed description of these two Ballet moves:

Glissade -
Literally, to glide. This is a traveling step starting in fifth position with demi-plié: the front foot moves out to a point, both legs briefly straighten as weight is shifted onto the pointed foot, and the other foot moves in to meet the first. A glissade can be en avant, en arrière, dessous, and dessus; start in fifth position plie, push off back foot moving the front foot forward and bringing the back foot that you pushed off on in the front landing in fifth position.

Jeté -
Jeté is a jump from one foot to the other similar to a leap, in which one leg appears to be "thrown" in the direction of the movement (en avant, en arrière or sideways). There are several kinds of jetés, such as petit jeté, grand jeté, en tournant, jeté entrelacé, etc.

(Descriptions from Wikipedia Ballet Glossary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_ballet)
This is a good resource to look up moves we do in class, but keep in mind Wikipedia is not perfect and occasionally there are mistakes as it is edited by users!