dance vocabulary #2

• ball change

  a 2 step move where you transfer the weight of one foot behind or by the other foot. basically stepping twice.
• kick ball change


  same as ball change with a kick before you perform the two-step move.
• isolation

  isolate one part of your body without moving any other parts
• pivot turns

  turn in place on the ball of the foot
• jazz square


  jazz step that makes a square in four moves
• grapevine


  A weaving movement; step side-back-side-front; depending on where you want to start
• straddle


  A position of the legs when both legs are extended out to the side
• lunge

  A movement, where one leg is an a plié position & the other leg is extended
• ponies


  a traveling step, looking like a pony; stepping with one foot, switching feet to up, down, up