Grade 8

Candidates should have knowledge of Ryman’s Dictionary of Classical Ballet Terms: Cecchetti.
All material contained in the previous Grades with the addition of the following:

Theory

Five positions of the feet

Five positions of the arms

Five positions of the head

Seven movements in dancing

Correct movements of the foot

Theory of Port de Bras

Use of the eight fixed points

Five arabesques

Eight Directions of the Body

The meaning of the French technical terms

Basic Steps:

Assemblés derrière

Assemblés devant

Ballonné simple – Écarté and Effacé en avant

Brisé – Dessus

Echappé battu – Beating out and in

Entrechat trois – Devant and derrière

Glissade – En avant and en arrière

Grand jete en avant

Grand pas de basque en avant

Pas de bourrée ouverte to 2nd position

Sissonnes dessous

Sissonnes dessus

Vocabulary

Allongée – Stretched out, to lengthen or extend

Ballonné – Inflated step, to blow up like a balloon

Brisé – Broken

Cabriole – Caper, leap of a goat

Dégagé en tournant – Disengaged movement turning

Développé en tournant – Unfolded turning movement

Emboîté – Fit together

Grand fouetté en l’air – Large whipped movement in the air