| Description | A table of contents can be found at the front of the file; this table of contents dates to late-20th Century.
The file contains Labanotated scores of ballet techniques and exercises.
Some of the Labanotated scores are originals, dating mid- to late-20th Century. Some of the Labanotated scores are photocopies, made mid- to late-20th Century, with originals dated mid- to late-20th Century. Some of the scores are annotated; annotations made mid- to late-20th Century.
Contains the following techniques and exercises:
- Positions of the feet
- Positions of the arms
- Positions of the head
- Positions of the body
- Beginner's ballet: basic movements
- Arabesques
- Pliés and relevés
- Battement tendu (beat stretched)
- Passé, retiré
- Head movements
- Epaulement (shoulder movement)
- Grand plié
- Grand battement (large beating)
- Barre - battement tendu (beat stretched)
- Battement degagé (beat disengaged)
- Battement relevé (beating lifted)
- Battement developpé
- Battement retiré
- Battement passé developpé
- Battement frappé
- Petit battement (little beating)
- Developpé (develop, unfold)
- Rond de jambe a terre (circle of the leg on the ground)
- Rond de jamve en l'air (circle of the leg in the air)
- Fondu (melted)
- Flic flac and preparation
- Head and arms for turns
- Soutenu rond de jambe à terre (sustained circle of the leg on the ground)
- Cou de pied position
- Ports de bras (carriage of the arms)
- Temps lié (time blended)
- Temps lié with developpé
- Reverence
- Galop - skip
- Echappé sauté, changement
- Sous-sous and soubresaut
- Entrechat (interweaving)
- Pas de bourrée (step of stuffed)
- Bourrée (stuffed)
- Pas de basque
- Piqué (pricked; also called posé) and coupé (cut)
- Temps levé (time raised)
- Sissonne
- Pas de chat (step of cat)
- Assemble (assembled)
- Ballonné
- Jeté (thrown)
- Adagio jetés
- Glissade (glide)
- Chassé (to chase)
- Demi contretamps (half 'against time')
- Cabriole (caper)
- Pirouettes
- Soutenu turn (sustained turn)
- Piqué turns
- Grand preparation for pirouette en dehors (large preparation for outside pirouette)
- Grand preparation for pirouettes en dedans (large preparation for inside pirouettes)
- Attitude turn
- Fouetté suaté (whipped jumped)
- Tour jeté (or grand jeté en tournant) (large leap turning)
- Saut de basque (jump of the basque)
- Renversé (upset, reversed)
- Emboité (fitted together, boxed)
- Temps de cuisse (time of the thigh)
- Brisé (broken)
- Emboité turns (boxed)
- Fouetté turns (whipped turns)
- Enchainé turns (enchained turns); also called chainé turns (chain of turns)
- Balancé (swing)
- Pas de basque en tournant
- Promenade (walk)
- Published book "The Gail Grant Dictionary of Classical Ballet in Labanotation" by Allan Miles; published 1972.
- Published book "Kinetographisches Lexikon der Klassischen Tanztechnik" ("Kinetographical Dictionary of the Classical Dance Technique") by Albrecht Knust; published 1965. (This labanotated score is in German.) Also includes a typed English translation of the foreword; translation made c1965.
- A lesson from Nathalie Branitzka, including barre and centre work
- "Baby Ballet" from the Hallenbeck syllabus
- "Danse Classique: Sélection d'Enchainements de Cours" by Atty Chadinoff, including adages; petits temps, tournés et sautés; and temps de parcours (these labanotated scores are in French)
- Skips
- Jumps
- Runs and leaps
- Step-leap in ballet style (grand jete en avant)
- Galop
- Arm gestures
- Classical ballet mime gestures
Also includes lists of ballet steps and notes on using Labanotation to teach ballet (including notes about and from "Ballet Alphabet for Beginners" by Ann Hutchinson [later known as Ann Hutchinson Guest], written 1965). The lists and notes were written mid-20th Century. Some of the notes are photocopied; photocopies made mid- to late-20th Century. |